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Consulting Firms 101 Video Series

There are 3 different tiers of consulting firms - Top 3 firms, Big 4 firms, and Tier 2 firms - and there are pros and cons of working at each level. Curious to find out what they are? In this video series, we compare the firms using 6 different metrics: Branding/prestige Salary/compensation Training Culture Exit opportunities Interviews…

Winter 2014 East Coast Tour Recap

On our January 2014 Consulting Bootcamp tour, we travelled to several universities up and down the East Coast - Duke, Georgia Tech, UGA, Penn, Harvard, McGill, Dartmouth, Columbia, and Cornell. **** In the beginning of the trip, Jenny Rae was intern-less. What did this mean? No pictures! By way of a quick words-only recap, we…

Business Book Review: The McKinsey Way

Today, we continue our series of book reviews with a look at The McKinsey Way, a book written by a former Associate at McKinsey, Ethan M. Rasiel, who is also the co-author of The McKinsey Mind. Enjoy! ------------------ Why Read The Book?  The McKinsey Way is a light and enjoyable read for those who want a brief overview…

Consulting 101 Video Series

We've been busy. Not only have we spent the last several weeks gallivanting all across the East Coast speaking at schools like Harvard, Penn, Columbia, McGill, and Cornell, but we've also been busy creating a YouTube series. At the start of the new year, we promised our subscribers a YouTube video every week on a…

Business Book Review: The 4-Hour Work Week

This week's post is on "The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape 9-5, Live anywhere, and Join the New Rich." - written by Timothy Ferriss (2007), an American author, entrepreneur, angel investor, and advisor to startups like Facebook, Twitter, and many more. Our guest writer is Michelle, an MC intern who is focused on curating the Consulting Bootcamp program.…

BearingPoint Interview Preparation – Mystery or History?

BearingPoint began at the height of the consulting boom years in the late 1990s, and was a part of KPMG's worldwide consulting practice. However, after the ENRON scandal erupted, SOX restructured the consulting industry. BearingPoint battled to find its own way in the world, and the firm struggled with finding independence from its Big 4…

2014 Management Consulting Salaries – Undergraduate, MBA, Interns and More

Welcome, welcome to 2014. To start the year out on the right foot, we'll be continuing our series of posts on consulting salaries with compensation information for those starting in a consulting firm this year - the big 2-0-1-4. We’ve been compiling data on management consulting salaries now for 4 years. What have we seen?…

Business Book Review: Lords of Strategy

We're starting a series of guest posts offered by staff, readers and interns that are reviews of books we think are helpful for those interested in consulting (specifically) and business (in general). This week's post is on Lords of Strategy - written by Walter Kiechel III, a journalist for 30 years, serving as an editor…

Final 2013 West Coast Adventures: Bain, Berkeley, and Stanford

We've been busy. After spending the last 5 months traveling to top colleges across the planet (Canada, U.K., and the East Coast - Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Georgetown, Duke and Georgia Tech), we decided to end our year off with one last trip to the Bay Area. This time we visited the Bain office in San Francisco, held 2 bootcamps at Stanford, and 1 bootcamp…

Capgemini Consulting Interviews – Tech, Business or Both?

Today we continue our firm profile series with an in-depth review of Capgemini Consulting. Founded in Paris, and containing the spliced DNA of other major firms it acquired along the way (Ernst & Young Consulting being the most notable), Capgemini Consulting is a global player in today's consulting industry. Firm Profile Overview (click to jump…