Remove Business Problem Solving Remove Development Remove Education
article thumbnail

The Pyramid Principle: A Deep-Dive Book Review (Part 1: Logic In Writing)

StrategyU

This is great for me, as I love that kind of book and it’s helped me reflect on my experience at McKinsey and my attempts to figure out why I was able to develop such strong capabilities there. Instead, you need to develop a better process for synthesizing and structuring information.

article thumbnail

What are the career paths and titles at McKinsey, Bain, and Boston Consulting Group?

StrategyU

As the scale and ambition of these firms increased, they needed more people to do the work and needed to develop internal pipelines of future partners. This often has to do with different educational timelines and labor requirements. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? Watch The Video On This.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How Top-Tier Consultants at McKinsey, Bain, and BCG Really Solve Problems 

StrategyU

From an education perspective, it’s a method where students are encouraged to use critical thinking and reasoning to solve problems given in a textbook or a test.). In many companies, the time spent on developing problem-solving skills and fundamentals is surprisingly small.

article thumbnail

Do Consulting Case Study Interviews Work? A deep dive

StrategyU

At the highest level, most cases are similar: The interviewer presents background on a “client’s” business problem or scenario (e.g., The firms all hire from pools of highly educated, intelligent people. But is picking between the 20th-ranked person and the 75th at Harvard Business School going to make a difference?

article thumbnail

A Brief History of Strategy Consulting: 100 years from Frederick Taylor to the “Next New Normal”

StrategyU

Think of the increase, both in the necessities and luxuries of life, which becomes available for the whole country, of the possibility of shortening the hours of labor when this is desirable, and of the increased opportunities for education, culture, and recreation which this implies. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving?