Strategy Sprint Q&A

Two former Strategy Sprinters – one PhD and one MBA candidate – join us to share their honest thoughts on how being staffed on a real-world consulting project has helped prepare them for consulting interviews.

Applications for Strategy Sprint open on July 1. In Strategy Sprint, you are staffed on a real-world consulting project (for a real business) to solve a strategy or growth-oriented problem.

This year’s schedule:

Skills training: July 18
Case Competition: Aug 1
Project week: Aug 3-7

Enjoy the recording, and write to us with any follow-up questions! Remember, applications open July 1!

I learned more in this single "course" than in the first semester of my masters program.

MBA Candidate

The skills you learn and develop in this strategy sprint are useful across the board, regardless of industry or profession. Do it.

David, MBA Candidate

Learning how to do consulting-specific data collection and analysis and format it into something that the client can see and understand was a great learning experience.

I enjoyed giving the final presentation to the client! Being able to hear her in the background saying "wow" and "I never thought about that" made all of the hard work so worth it.

I thought I was a detail oriented person before this project, but after this week, I am so much more detail oriented and data driven than ever before. This project helped me realize how important everything you do is for a client and how much every decision you make needs to be backed up with data.

I learned more in this single "course" than in the first semester of my masters program.

This experience provided me with confidence, assurance, and a feel of ease for the upcoming interview process. Thank you so much!

MBA Candidate

I learned more than I ever thought I would interacting with clients and team members while tackling real world problems.

MBA Candidate

I just did the meatiest part of a summer program at a top firm and I must say, Strategy Sprint really prepped me well and helped me stand out as a top performer on my team for the workshop. Here are the things Strategy Sprint helped me with:

1. We were asked to individually come up with a one-page exec summary. Everyone else on my team wrote very comprehensive one-page reports in Word. I was the only one who made a slide with bullet points using the pyramid principle and 80/20 rule.

2. When our project leader asked each of us how we approached making the exec summary, I had the approach that's most similar to what the PL said they do at at the firm: make a framework, think of the high level story (The "what", "why" and "how"), and then breaking it into modules/bullet points.

3. I was constantly leading and pushing my team to think of how to tell our story and to trim off less-relevant materials when we had to assemble a deck.

4. I volunteered to present the whole story after the deck was done and everyone liked the way I did it.

Thanks so much for all your help!!

Emily, Advanced Degree Candidate

The Strategy Sprint experience provided a nice preview of the consulting world to me. It also helped me understand basic principles of how consultants generally think.

Undergraduate student

I had a great experience participating in the Virtual Consulting - Strategy Sprint on the team led by Alessandro Furlotti. In my last consulting interview, the case actually asked me to analyze and recommend a new service offer, similar to my work for the client!

Jan. 2021 Strategy Sprinter

I wanted to thank you for convincing me to join this experience. It's been great working and learning with the team and getting all the great feedback throughout the process; and it's been great working with multifaceted Nare.

Experienced Hire who completed Strategy Sprint

The project was a great challenge!! Definitely stretched my abilities in terms of knowledge and understanding, and increased my appreciation for consulting! I will be exploring areas of consulting that will leverage my experience and expand my career options!

Mid-career professional who participated in Strategy Sprint

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