Month: February 2020

Top Corporate Training Topics

Corporate training presents a great opportunity for your team to engage with each other, and up-skill in key areas that most affect performance. Choosing the right corporate training topics is essential to maximizing ROI and making sure your team feels like they are being invested in. Today, Jenny Rae shares MC's top requested corporate training…

What Makes a Good Corporate Trainer?

There is no lack of available resources to understand what makes a good corporate trainer. The real question is: How do you know a good corporate trainer from an acceptable, but not particularly remarkable, one? When it comes to selecting the person (or team) who is going to train your employees, you don’t just want…

Best Consulting Firms for Undergrad Salary

As consulting salaries continue to rise industry-wide, the wealth has trickled down to the Analyst level as well. That's right, this year was a record breaking year for the undergrad consultant salary. While the war for talent is being waged far more prominently on the MBA battlefield, firms (smartly) recognize the value of top undergrad…

BCG Growth Share Matrix Example

The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Growth Share Matrix efficiently and effectively identifies if investments should be made into a product or service. Conversely, it also shows if a product or service should be retired from the market. Although there are some limitations of the BCG Growth Share matrix, which we will discuss, this matrix is…

Issue Trees: What Are They & How To Use Them

Have you ever had a large, complex, and seemingly overwhelming problem that you initially had no idea how to solve? Chances are, it would have been helpful if you used an issue tree. The issue tree is a tool that consultants use to break down big problems into smaller manageable ones. Firms like McKinsey, Boston…

Consulting Internships

Are you looking to land an MBA consulting internship? Consulting internships are a great way to find out if consulting is right for you, and if a firm is a good fit for you. Plus, consulting firms take a majority of full-time hires directly from their internship pool - there's no clearer path to a…

McKinsey To Being An Entrepreneur: Consultant Interview

Breaking into McKinsey is no small feat. Breaking into McKinsey London? It’s just that much tougher. And then - pursuing an MBA at Columbia Business School and launching a startup? Now things are getting interesting. Read on for our interview with Annabel as she gives us insight into why she chose consulting over banking, how…

Data Analytics: Do Businesses Really Need It?

Every company in the world - from a kid’s lemonade stand to a large corporation like Apple - has data at its disposal. Though a lot of data is created in similar ways, the real value of data comes from being able to interpret it through data analytics and use your analysis to make strategic…

Business Communication

Business communication is often considered a soft skill, when it should really be considered a hard skill. Unclear communication costs companies millions of dollars per year in inefficiency and lost revenue. As a result, it’s incredibly important that employees at all levels across organizations improve their communication skills. What is Business Communication? What differentiates business…

Top MBA Programs For Consulting

B-school observers eagerly await the U.S. News & World Report or Forbes rankings to get a sense of the top MBA programs and what separates them. Yet, if you're looking to go into consulting, some different criteria apply. Some MBA programs will set you up better than others, but these don't track exactly with the…