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Disastrous First BCG Engagement
A discussion of reasoning used by a partner to analyze a BCG associate’s poor engagement performance. There are almost no excuses for weak performance.
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Succeeding as a Management Consultant
How to learn and demonstrate core management consultant skills: analytic abilities, emotional intelligence and political awareness.
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What is Analytical Problem Solving?
This article addresses some very common misconceptions and myths about analytical problem solving in management consulting.
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Launching A Consulting Firm
Nine key considerations are discussed when ex-partners of McKinsey and BCG leave the firm to start their own consulting firms.
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Implementation, Strategy, and Operations Consulting
This article explains the differences between strategy, operations and implementation consulting, and which firms are good at which type of consulting.
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The Speech that Defined McKinsey
Delivered by Marvin Bower. The Speech that Defined McKinsey. Annual McKinsey & Company Partners’ Conference.
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Internal Strategy Units Rarely Create Strategy Consultants
Internal strategy units at banks tend to be attractive alternatives to McKinsey and BCG. This article argues they are not and the accompanying podcast discusses the practical problems a typical analyst would face in the unit.
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Chapter One: From Pepsi to Bain
An ex-Bain partner discusses his rise from Pepsi into Bain’s aerospace practice and his lessons along the way. This chapter highlights his almost serendipitous arrival at Bain.
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Chapter Three: My First Engagement at Bain
Terance discusses his disastrous first Bain engagement when he was taken off after disagreeing with the case leader by challenging the recommendation of boosting investment in the marketing department.