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2013 Canada Tour Recap – Ph.D.s, Snow and Vintage Chocolate

If this is your first time joining us, we've spent the last 5 months traveling to top colleges across the planet - check out news from our latest gallivants to the U.K., the Bay Area, and East Coast (Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Georgetown, Duke and Georgia Tech). **** Our trip started off with a sparse few hours of sleep on two red-eye flights…

Undergrad Bootcamper Breaks into McKinsey

We first met Rachel in September; she was nice and very unassuming. When we got her 1:1 in our New York Bootcamp, however, we were impressed with her experience, her depth of business understanding and her very solid motivations for her passion about consulting. This is a transcribed phone interview between Rachel (name changed) and…

Types of Case Interviews: 6 Must Knows

There are multiple types of case interviews you must pass before landing a coveted job offer. That's right - writing the perfect resume and preparing for the fit interview are just the beginning of your work! Just as there's always a dragon to slay before rescuing the princess, there's a case interview process to master…

Top 10 Universities in Canada for Management Consulting

Are you one of our hyper-focused high schoolers that's considering a career in business? There are several reasons you might consider pursuing higher education in Canada. Some prospective students are attracted to the lower tuition prices and higher acceptance rates of top Canadian schools versus stateside schools. Others love the exceptional international flair found in…

UK 2013 Consulting Bootcamp Tour Recap

As if staying Stateside wasn't enough, we decided to chase the Autumn weather to its last ends in the U.K. If you're just joining us, we've spent the last few months galavanting around to top college campuses across the planet - check out our posts on Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Georgetown, Duke and Georgia Tech. Sorry, it's taken us so long to get…

IBM Consulting

IBM GLOBAL BUSINESS SERVICES (GBS) The history of IBM GBS (also known as IBM Consulting) is one of our very favorite business stories of all time, and one that reminds us that even the most enormous, boring and troubled companies can re-invent themselves. As the next installment in our popular Firm Profile series, we take…

NERA Economic Consulting

Interviewing with NERA Economic Consulting? Well, NERA is no MBB. In fact, if you look at a list of top 20 consulting firms, NERA won't be on it. That being said, NERA is still a major player in the consulting industry and here's why: NERA Economic Consulting is one of the top economic consulting firms. Let's…

West Coast Mini-Tour – Berkeley, Bootcamps and Ice Cream Sandwiches

The West Coast is the Best Coast - I thought that was ridiculous. Until I moved to California. Yes, we busted our a#$es visiting Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Georgetown, Duke and Georgia Tech (click the links for highlights). The East Coast schools are organized - all competing with one another, all beating to the same drum. West Coast?…

Tour Recap – Day 7 (New York Consulting Bootcamp)

Welcome...to the final day, the crowning achievement, of our 2013 8-day East Coast (we counted our final travel day too). If you're just joining us, check out Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Georgetown, Duke and Georgia Tech's highlights. **** To check out a video with in-person testimonies, make sure to read on to the end of the…

Tour Recap – Day 6 (Harvard)

Welcome back to Tour Throwback Week. We hustled up and down the U.S. East Coast, visiting Georgia Tech, Duke, Georgetown, and Columbia, Yale, and Harvard. Check out our adventures and misadventures before reading today's post. If you want a small group setting to accelerate your case interview performance (like, 0-60 in a day) join us next weekend in San Francisco -…