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Consultants – A dime a dozen for MBA Applications

Tom Spencer

With thousands of management consultants applying to top MBA programs each year, consulting is one of the most overrepresented candidate pools, alongside finance. Use concrete metrics to demonstrate your contributions, such as cost savings, revenue growth, or operational improvements.

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Startup Experience: A Must for Every Young Professional

Tom Spencer

In my journey from university to the professional world, I, like many of my peers, initially gravitated towards the allure of prestigious roles in consulting or finance. While my consulting experiences afforded me exposure to diverse industries, the crux of my passion lay within the realm of transportation.

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Job Hub: Uber Jobs and Culture

Management Consulted

Operational worldwide, Uber offers its transportation network services in 58 countries and over 300 cities. Uber allows anyone with a smartphone and a credit card access to transportation in their city, and offers almost anyone with a car the opportunity to drive and make money. 28% of Management Consultants Pursue Finance.

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You Don’t Need an “India Strategy” — You Need a Strategy for Each State in India

Harvard Business

Policies relating to infrastructure development, land and labor, healthcare, and transport fall under the purview of the states—as do most licensing and permitting. Companies should measure the operating environment of each state by analyzing indicators related to infrastructure, talent, finance, and the business and tax environment.

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To Go Digital, Leaders Have to Change Some Core Beliefs

Harvard Business

Consider your guiding principles, time and capital allocation patterns, and the key metrics that you track. Extrapolate what implications these new core beliefs would have on strategy, capital allocation and key metrics. The process usually looks something like this: Identify how your core beliefs manifest themselves in your business.

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5 Questions That Will Help You Stay Ahead of Your Disruptors

Harvard Business

They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation. That process was quickly fixed — and illuminated the pathology of valuing productivity metrics divorced from UX.

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Elon Musk’s Unusual Compensation Plan Isn’t Really About Compensation at All

Harvard Business

If, by contrast, Tesla’s target was merely a $100 billion market capitalization — frankly, a great target for most companies, as it projects a 7% return annually for the next 10 years — then investors might quickly lose their appetite to continue financing the company. They signed up for transformation, not steady returns.