Business consulting advice and articles for aspiring and established management consultants.
Consulting is right for you if you have leadership skills and a business-oriented, independent, flexible, factual, data-driven, and analytical mindset. Alternatively, engineering is for you if you are curious, innovative, design and detail-oriented, logical, and proficient in math and science. Both consulting and engineering are lucrative professions that draw in countless students every year. Consultants …
“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both,” read the first two lines of the famous poem The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. Students and fresh graduates looking to step into consulting face a similar dilemma as Frost i.e. to begin their career path in consulting vs industry. What …
Did you know that the first mention of the term ‘consultant’ is thought to have been from an 1893 story featuring the mastermind detective Sherlock Holmes? Drawing its roots from the Latin term ‘consultare’ which means ‘take the advice of’, this word has eventually come to represent a multi-billion-dollar global industry. Management and business consulting …
There are hundreds of investment banks worldwide, but each bank is different based on many categories, including revenue, total employees, global presence, and market share. The top investment banks are generally viewed as those with the highest numbers across the different categories. This article will provide a brief description of each of the top ten …