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Business Travel Trends for 2020

Business travel is constantly in a state of flux as technology progresses and companies reassess their travel spend. The face of the workplace is changing rapidly, and the COVID-19 crisis has only accelerated this change, with solutions like Microsoft Teams and Zoom becoming a part of the national lexicon. It’s hard to predict from year…

Big 4 Career Lab

Deloitte, EY, PwC, and KPMG… AKA the “Big 4.” The Big 4 are in the top echelon of management consulting firms. For aspiring consultants, they represent a fantastic consulting career. That is, if you can land a job there. Enter: Big 4 Career Lab. Big 4 Career Lab knows the hard work it takes to…

Time Management & Productivity

What is more important – working harder or working smarter? Though both are crucial to a company’s success, when you can’t have both, working smarter leads to faster and more efficient results. Unless you are in medicine or engineering, generally, 5 goods are better than 1 great. What do we mean by this? Teach your…

How to Become a Management Consultant

Working as a management consultant is a popular career track for talented, competitive people looking for a rewarding and challenging career. Management consultants maintain a high status in the marketplace and are frequently in demand, regardless of broader economic conditions. This makes the career path especially attractive. That’s true now more than ever, as the…

Economic Consulting Case Interview Questions

Economic consulting case interview questions are likely to be some of the most difficult hurdles to clear in your quest to become an economic consultant. The case interview questions for management consulting—economic consulting’s slightly more popular cousin—are much more well documented. But there is a relative scarcity of resources to help with the economic consulting…

McKinsey Frameworks

The McKinsey frameworks have been used for decades to help organizations break down problems and make informed decisions about their future. In fact, the frameworks McKinsey helps its clients utilize have made the firm synonymous with “best of the best”. It’s the most prestigious consulting firm in the world for a reason. Maybe your organization…

Case Coaching McKinsey, Bain, & BCG

Case coaching for your McKinsey interview, Bain interview, or Boston Consulting Group interview will be one of the most important parts of your interview preparation process. It’s no exaggeration to say that this will play a bigger role in whether you get hired than your resume and GPA, although those need to be top notch…

Creative Destruction

Creative destruction is a concept used for explaining change in market dynamics characterized by new products, services, and techniques displacing or replacing old ones. In the wake of globalization and the digital revolution, the modern economy has been defined by an unprecedented pace of change and innovation. Indeed, whole markets and industries shift so rapidly…

Utilizing SWOT In A Business Case

Analyzing businesses is a crucial skill for all businesspeople. This is true whether you are a business owner, an executive, an external consultant, or even an investor. Due to the complexity and ambiguity of analyzing businesses, professionals have created frameworks to simplify the process. The SWOT analysis is one great example. This framework creates a…

Practice Case Interviews: How To Prepare The Right Way

Practicing case interviews is arguably the most important part of successfully preparing for a management consultant interview. At the top consulting firms, competition is fierce. Watching videos and reading books can be helpful, but at the end of the day, it’s out-loud practice that sets apart successful and unsuccessful candidates. The crucial difference-maker is almost…