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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. This expertise may be as broad as “operations turnaround” and as specific as “benchmarking for insurance companies.”

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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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4 Ways to Develop Practical Business Understanding for Consulting

Management Consulted

Which leads to our second point — although what you learn will be on a smaller scale than what the Fortune 500 would do (you’ll use less data, involve fewer people, and have much less at stake), you will start developing the ability to see what really matters (and what doesn’t) to the CEO of a company — profits, operations, etc.

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Consulting 101: Operations, Hierarchies, and Types of Firms

Tom Spencer

In this short post, we will briefly explore how consulting firms work, the hierarchy within firms, the main types of firms, and a few ways to learn more about a particular firm as you chart your career path, prepare your applications, and get ready to matriculate into the consulting industry. How do Consulting Firms Work?

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List of strategy consulting firms in London

Tom Spencer

Alpha Financial Markets Consulting. Applied Value Group. Boston Consulting Group. Cambridge Strategic Management Group. Cedar Management Consulting. Celerant Consulting. Deloitte Consulting. Bain is headquartered in Boston and operates in 46 offices across 29 countries.

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List of strategy consulting firms in Hong Kong

Tom Spencer

List of strategy consulting firms in Hong Kong 2011. in Management Consulting. List of strategy consulting firms in Hong Kong. Applied Value Group. Boston Consulting Group. Deloitte Consulting. Established in 1989, Accenture operates in more than 120 countries worldwide. IMS Health.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms in the Middle East

Management Consulted

Boston Consulting Group. The firm’s main capabilities include: actuarial, business & organization transformation, digital, marketing and sales, operations & technology, risk management, and strategy & value sourcing. for example. Roland Berger. The firm is wholly owned by 220 partners.