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At Some Companies, MBA Students Are Consulting
SEPTEMBER 2, 2010. Some of the top U.S. business schools have been teaming up with companies, including Urban Outfitters Inc. and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc., on programs in which students play the role of consultant—at little or no cost to the company.
Students may work on identifying acquisition targets, assessing a market segment’s viability or creating a business plan, among other topics, program directors… Read the rest
PricewaterhouseCoopers to Buy Diamond Management
AUGUST 24, 2010. Accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP has agreed to pay $378 million for Diamond Management & Technology Consultants Inc., highlighting further consolidation in the sector.
Big consulting firms, still suffering from recessionary aftershocks, have been seeking to grow through acquisitions. Aon Corp. agreed earlier this month to buy human-resources firm Hewitt Associates Inc. for nearly $5 billion, tripling the size of its own consulting… Read the rest
Sunil Kumar Named Dean of U of C Booth School of Business
Sunil Kumar, the Fred H. Merrill Professor of Operations, Information and Technology and an expert in operations research at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, has been appointed the next dean of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. University President Robert Zimmer and Provost Thomas Rosenbaum announced the appointment July 28.
Kumar is currently the Stanford business school’s senior associate dean for… Read the rest
How to Read Wall Street Journal Online for Free
How to Read Wall Street Journal Online for Free. For non-MBA advanced professional degree or APD candidates (PhD, MD, JD, Masters, etc) who are interested in getting into management consulting, some kind of business exposure at the common sense level is absolutely necessary. Reading the Wall Street Journal on a daily basis is a good way to quickly pick up all the business terms so that you can speak in the same language as B-school trained management consultants during real consulting interviews. Continue reading
Top MBA Programs Basic Facts
Thinking about switching to a career in management consulting by going to a top MBA programs? Here is a list of the top 15 full-time MBA programs ranked by US News & World Report (2009 version) and some basic facts about them, including application acceptance rate, actual enrollment rate, first-year class size, average GMAT score, average undergraduate GPA and average age. Continue reading