investment banking

Top 5 myths about travel as a management consultant

Travel is a defining characteristic of management consulting regardless of your company. From Bain to Accenture, from McKinsey to Towers Perrin. If you’re a consultant, you can expect to become familiar with acronyms like LGA, LAX, and ORD. You can expect to spend enough time in hotels that the staff will recognize and greet you [...]

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Management Consulting versus Investment Banking

This is an important question for prospective applicants (in particular, undergrad/MBA students) looking for summer internships and fulltime jobs alike. The decision was easier for me than for most people. The cons of investment banking – the long hours, the repetitive and unengaging nature of the work, the lack of non-finance exit opportunities – mattered [...]

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Day in the life of a management consultant (client version)

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*following is a quick excerpt of a “typical” day as a management/strategy consultant on a project with heavy client interaction* From a recruiting perspective, you should take away the following: The days are shorter than in investment banking (12-14 hr days average, with spikes up to 16 hrs for particularly busy periods) While they’re shorter, [...]

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