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Long-form essays, field notes, and frameworks from the FIRMSconsulting team — published weekly.
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Building a Digital Luxury Startup
Building a Luxury Brand We will help Tatiana, a Wharton MBA graduate and scion of a prominent Asian family, build an ultra-luxury brand from literally nothing “The Promotion” is an original Firmsconsulting program which teaches you how to apply all the skills a McKinsey, BCG et al. partner would use to launch a start-up and…
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Life After McKinsey
A McKinsey Associate’s Life After Consulting We help Daniel, an ex-McKinsey associate, build his career as a Strategy Senior Vice-President within the internal strategy unit of a major Chinese investment bank. We focus on breaking the lesser known, but very real, analytics ceiling. Daniel will be joining a part of the bank staffed with numerous…
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Partnership. Memoir. From Analyst to Director by age 30
Partnership. Memoir. From Analyst to Director by age 30 How I did it and what you can learn As many of you know Firmsconsulting only works with the most eminent McKinsey, BCG et al. former senior partners. We remain the only platform in the world where you are trained directly by partners. Kevin P. Coyne became the…
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Growing a Boutique Consulting Firm
Growing a Boutique Consulting Firm This new series follows the partners’ journey after he left the firm and is headhunted to turnaround a large yet struggling boutique consulting firm. This series is a continuation of the hugely popular training programs Partnership.Memoir and Rebuilding a Consulting Practice. Expect the usual detailed discussions on strategy, tactics and…
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The Career MasterPlan Program
The Career MasterPlan Program We summarize the critical skills and strategies we developed for our most successful executive coaching clients and give you a blueprint to significantly alter your career. How did we train Andrew to go from senior manager to senior equity partner in 3 years? How did we build a multi-million dollar luxury…
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Digital & IT Strategy Study
Digital & IT Strategy Study A corporate strategy and digital team helps a major national insurance company determine how to change their business model as customers demand real time premium adjustments and risk calculations based on data from iPhone, iWatch Apps, Fitbit etc. Insurance used to be a steady, boring and very profitable business. It…
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The Turnaround & Restructuring Engagement
The Turnaround & Restructuring Engagement In this study we help a state-owned entity that is essentially dying and preparing for a future where it possibly does not exist. Despite numerous consulting studies since the early 1990’s to prepare for a dystopian postal future ravaged with the scourge of email and the rise of nimble upstarts…
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Big Data & Machine Learning Strategy Study
Big Data & Machine Learning Strategy Study We help an energy giant develop the national disease management strategy for one particularly costly and burdensome disease. To learn more about this study , read the excellent work of David Matheson. Matheson is the now retired BCG senior partner who pioneered a more data intensive way to…
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Implementation of an Operations Strategy
Implementation of an Operations Strategy Work with an implementation team helping one of the world’s most profitable and largest aluminium smelters improve profits and production by implementing a new operations strategy. The parent company has divested under-performing upstream (mining) assets during the recession and is relying on the downstream (processing) businesses, like the smelters, to…
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(Re) Building a Consulting Practice
(Re) Building a Consulting Practice In this series we follow Michael, when in his mid-20s, as a senior associate, he changed offices and led the turnaround of the strategy practice across multiple weaker offices by first rebuilding one office’s stature on the back of a landmark operations engagement. It was scary, difficult and no one…
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Building an Electric Car Startup
Building an Electric Car Startup With Richard, a recent ex-MBB consultant and Firmsconsulting Case Coaching Alum, we co-launch an start-up to build an electric car. We are attempting to build a real automotive business. We are attempting to establish all the technology and infrastructure that decision entails. As we encourage clients to pursue significant goals,…
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How to Reboot a Stalled Career
How to Reboot a Stalled Career The steps and strategies we use to accelerate the careers of clients in our executive coaching program. Bhavin was a 36 yr old EMBA graduate from a NE USA Top-10 program. He was on an H1B visa, with 2 kids and a wife. Having unsuccessfully pursued McKinsey during his…