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Time Management: How to Keep Employees Productive

Time management is perhaps one of the most researched, studied, and obsessed over concepts in all of management. Back when physical bookstores were more relevant, you could find entire sections devoted to time management. People travel the world to attend seminars with time management gurus. If you’re an aspiring or practicing manager, consultant, or business…

Galt & Company

Galt & Company Overview Note: Galt & Company was acquired by AlixPartners in late 2021. Our Firm Profile series continues with this deep dive into Galt & Company. Galt & Co is a unique player that is known for helping chief executives and senior management teams of Fortune 500 companies develop strategies and organizational capabilities…

Performance Management: Managing Employee Performance

Any business owner will tell you about the immense difference between vision and reality. Performance management is how management works to achieve outcomes that match the vision as closely as possible. While performance management might sound like a specific niche of management, in reality, “management” as a whole is largely made up of performance management.…

Employee Engagement: Productivity KPI

Employee engagement has become increasingly emphasized in the landscape of modern business management. Yet there are still many organizations that aren’t focused on this profoundly important driver of productivity. Anyone who’s had experience in management will attest to the difficulties in maximizing the potential inherent within a company. Why is it that companies experience such…

Leadership Vision: Grab Yours Now

Leadership vision is what separates cohesive teams from scattered teams. Every new member you add to a team increases the complexity of the operation. Synchronizing the activities of many self-interested people is crucial to steering a business toward its objectives, but it is not easy. This is why leadership vision is essential. In this article,…

Issue Trees Are Dead- In Virtual Case Interviews

Issue trees are often used by consultants to help break down large or complex business issues into smaller, more manageable pieces. From there, those pieces can be put into a plan to bring about a solution to the overall problem. Some use them for case interviews, but should they in this post covid world? You…

MBB Increases Size Of MBA Waitlists In 2021

Landing on an MBB waitlist is the dreaded purgatory between knowing you have an offer - and knowing you don't. This year, more MBAs who interviewed for internships find themselves on an MBB waitlist as McKinsey, BCG, and Bain determine headcount needs for 2021 and beyond. Count this as just another effect of the COVID-19…

Consulting Hiring Amidst Covid

Covid has adjusted consulting firms' hiring practices. Firms - across levels and functions - are hiring more candidates in 2021 from non-traditional backgrounds. Why? There are a couple of reasons: Virtual recruiting has evened the playing field for students at non-target schools. Firm recruiting teams can no longer travel to target campuses. Therefore, they have…

2021 Consulting Salaries Analysis

Because 2020 was a disruptive year for business around the world, we expected to see disruption in consulting salaries. We were not disappointed. At both the pre-MBA and post-MBA entry levels, 2021 consulting salaries remained steady on average, and in many cases, unchanged from 2020. This is remarkable for 2 reasons: The decade-long winning streak…

Unit Economics: What Is It?

Unit economics has become such a buzzword in the world of management consulting that it almost seems passé. Today's era is of highly publicized yet unprofitable startups raising tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. Their presumption is that they will bend toward profitability with scale, making mastering unit economics more necessary than ever. This…