by Marquis | Feb 17, 2012 | About Marquis, Business, career, career path, consulting, Education, IT consulting, pre-MBA grad degrees, professional advice, Technology, Technology management, Technology-related
The email below was written by a student from the Indiana University group that I mentioned a few entries ago. I met him during a student trip to Chicago held in mid-January. He and I chatted a bit about his desire to move into IT after his college graduation and,...
by Marquis | Feb 8, 2012 | consulting, management consulting, strategy
Recently, I’ve received several emails asking me to provide an overview of the Management Consulting industry and, in those cases, I’ve referred people to my archived blog entries, where Consulting is discussed at length. Given the interest in this topic,...
by Marquis | Feb 1, 2012 | About Marquis, career, career path, Education, professional advice
The email below comes from a Freshman student at Indiana University who I met during MLK Weekend. She’s part of a program for the top students in IU’s undergrad business school and I spent some time hanging out with them on the Saturday of the weekend and...
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...
