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Business Book Review: Boston Consulting Group On Strategy

Management Consulted

Welcome to yet another opportunity to gain valuable insights from a book review, written by Preeti Vemu, MC intern, MC events organizer extraordinary, and an ex-Deloitte consultant. Every section of Boston Consulting Group on Strategy is a comprehensive article offering insights that can be applied to any business circumstance.

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4 Ways to Develop Practical Business Understanding for Consulting

Management Consulted

Many history, English, and art majors, engineers, and law students – all of interest to consulting firms, but lacking in business basics – come to us asking how they can develop their business understanding to prepare for consulting interviews. Start your own business. . Size its market. Identify how it makes profit.

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The Lockdown Unlocks Real Work

Markovitz Consulting

Recent research from the Boston Consulting Group confirms that employees can do better work when they’re liberated from much of the bureaucratic cruft that passes for daily management. Peter Drucker once quipped that, “Much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to work.”

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Management Consulting versus Investment Banking

Management Consulted

Consultants – depending on firm – travel anywhere from 25-75% of their time. At the Big 3 (Bain, Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey), you can expect travel 50-75% of the time. Further reading: Consulting travel ; Day in the life of a consultant. #3 3 SKILL DEVELOPMENT. INVESTMENT BANKING.

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Examples of Organizations Who Have Top Business Training Programs

Clarity Consultants

Everyone is trying to do more with less, and to help them achieve this goal, organizations are leaning in to their learning and development programs to help them fill that gap. Their unique personal development support is said to be second to none. Boston Consulting Group.

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5 Questions with an Associate at BCG London

Management Consulted

Role: Associate, The Boston Consulting Group, London. In my view, the 2 best things about working at BCG are the people and the opportunity for personal development. Here we go! +. Qualifications: BA in Economics, Trinity College Dublin and MA in Management from ESCP Europe. What do you enjoy most about working at BCG?

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McKinsey Offer vs. Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Offer

CaseInterview.com

You will very quickly develop a reputation and it pretty much colors all of your opportunities in the future internally. So, the whole thing is a virtuous cycle -- and it starts with developing a good reputation early. Once you start at a firm, these firms are very reputation-based. This was certainly my experience.