by Marquis | Mar 16, 2014 | career, consulting, mba, McKinsey
The email below is from an Atlanta-based MBA graduate who aspires to transition into a career as a Management Consultant. Her questions to me vary in specificity, from wanting to know how to develop Excel modeling skills to wanting to know about projects/industries in...
by Marquis | Mar 8, 2014 | Business, Business School, career, career path, consulting, management consulting, professional advice, strategy
The email below is from someone who found me after reading the interview that I did on Management Consulted a few years ago. I swear that that interview is the gift that keeps on giving in terms of bringing people to me with questions. 🙂 The person is an undergrad...
by Marquis | Feb 28, 2014 | Business School, career, career path, consulting, Education, healthcare, management consulting, mba, Pharma, professional advice
The email below came to me from a recent college graduate who I met through my Princeton alumni network. He’s a really sharp guy who is interested in a career that bridges the areas of business and healthcare/pharma. In our previous conversations, we’ve...
by Marquis | Feb 19, 2014 | Business, Business concepts, career, Education, entrepreneurship, mba, my peoples
Hey folks, So many people email me and ask if an MBA will help them be a better entrepreneur. My answer is always “No.†An MBA stands for Masters In Business Administration. It was originally designed for managers, not entrepreneurs. If it was called a Masters in...
by Marquis | Feb 5, 2014 | Business School, Education, Financing the MBA, GMAT, mba
This morning, I was contacted by the folks at The Economist GMAT Tutor with a heads up about their launch of a $25K scholarship program for stellar applicants to MBA programs. Along with some other people in the MBA/business blogging community, they asked me to help...
by Marquis | Jan 24, 2014 | career, internship, professional advice, recruiting
The email below is from a college Sophomore that I met at a talk that I delivered to some undergrad business school students a few months ago. Like most students his age, he has concerns about being able to secure a summer internship, especially given that he is still...
