StrategyU

AUGUST 22, 2023

This might help you prepare for a negative reaction from a manager by more easily letting you practice going through the experience beforehand. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? Our division had a successful quarter, beating the competition by 2% in revenue.

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StrategyU

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

This is why consulting can feel more like therapy than business problem-solving. This is the value of a consultant, the ability to continue to search for the problem behind the problem. Managing scope creep is an art and how much “creep” a consultant allows is really a matter of judgment.

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StrategyU

JULY 5, 2020

The history of strategy consulting starts with Frederick Taylor and the Scientific Management movement but took many twists and turns as it evolved into its current state, an industry looking inward and pondering where it fits in the new technology-powered business world. Chapter 1: Frederick Taylor: “The System Must Be First”.

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StrategyU

APRIL 19, 2022

If you really wanted to jump from Business Analyst to Associate at McKinsey for example, that is definitely a possible path if you are a top performer. In this case, you likely would have to spend an additional six months or year in the BA role and it might come with the title “Senior Business Analyst.”

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StrategyU

JANUARY 27, 2021

Indro Nooyi was the CEO of Pepsi and now works with the Yale School of Management as well as working with the state of Connecticut on the Covid-19 rollout. Every business in the world has been grappling with this and therefore, as an advisor to those businesses, I’ve helped them think through that. That will come over.

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