by Marquis | Jan 18, 2012 | Business, career, consulting, management consulting, professional advice
Long-time visitors to this site are probably used to seeing folks ask me questions about how to get into McK (or one of its peer firms). In this case, the author of the email below was seeking advice on how he could position himself to get into McK’s Philippines...
by Marquis | Jan 3, 2012 | Business, career, consulting, management consulting, mba, Networking, professional advice
Happy new year, everyone! Hopefully, you all had a great holiday season and a safe entry into 2012. Now that I’ve had a couple of days to recover from the holidays, I figured that I should get back to posting truth and wisdom 🙂 The message below is from a reader...
by Marquis | Dec 20, 2011 | Business School, career, consulting, professional advice
The message below is from a longtime reader of this site who recently graduated with his MBA from London Business School. Also, he scored a post-MBA position with McKinsey’s London office, which is a huge feat given the office’s popularity. Now that...
by Marquis | Dec 10, 2011 | Business, career, Education
Hey, everyone. I can’t remember if I mentioned it earlier, but, back in September, I was invited to give a talk about optimizing one’s career and education at Indiana University. The audience was a group of freshman who were part of a special residential...
by Marquis | Nov 27, 2011 | Business, career, career path, consulting, internship, professional advice
Hi, everyone! For those of you in the United States, I hope you’ve all had a great Thanksgiving holiday weekend. 🙂 The email below is from a Junior at Stanford University who is seeking my advice on how to best position himself to get an summer internship offer...
