Vault Guide to the Top 50 Consulting Firms

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A collection of company profiles offering an inside look at management consulting careers and the firms that shape the industry.

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If you want to be a consultant.......2005-05-05

For individuals exploring consulting positions, this is a must read book. You will learn about corporate culture for the most prestigeous consulting forms in the US. Not all consulting is the same, nor are the firms that employ the top talent. Before you make a move, check the Vault Guide and you will know what to expect. Exellent reference, to the point and worth every penny.

Doesn't get better.......2003-12-03

If you are interested in the Consulting Industry....it doesn't get better than this! This is a great comprehensive guide to the various companies and their focus areas. Great jump start on finding where you belong in the world of consulting.

superb guide with fascinating rankings.......2001-11-01

I found this guide to be immensely helpful in getting the real story - good, bad and ugly - about the leading consulting firms. The book also has a fascinating new poll/ranking of the 50 most prestigious management consulting firms to work for. (As might be expected, the consultants surveyed rated McKinsey as the #1 most prestigious and BCG as #2). I would highly recommend reading this guide.

superb guide to the leading consulting firms.......2001-11-01

I found this guide to be immensely helpful in getting the real story - good, bad and ugly - about the consulting industry and the leading consulting firms. I would highly recommend reading this guide.

Highly recommended.......2001-10-28

I don't normally write reviews, but I just got this book and had to write. The book has detailed insider accounts of life inside every major consulting firm, including its history, areas of specialization, and tips on the hiring and interviewing process. Highly recommended for job seekers and consultants alike.

Consulting : The Vault.com Career Guide to Consulting (Vault Guide to the Top 50 Consulting Firms)

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Consulting : The Vault.com Career Guide to Consulting (Vault Guide to the Top 50 Consulting Firms)
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ASIN: 1581311117

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Consulting continues to rank among the most popular profession for emerging MBAs and graduates, and for good reason. The consulting industry has seen revenues grow about 16 percent per year. Consulting is one of the best-paid professions for recent grads, offering new graduates lucrative salary packages and the chance to run shoulders with the top management of Fortune 500 companies, while working on some of the most interesting issues that these managers face. At first glace, it looks like a no-brainer.

But don't be hasty. Consulting has much to recommend, but it's no walk in the park. Presurres are high, travel is onerous, and the interview process can be painful. Before setting off down the consulting route, you should develop a good understanding of where the industry is going, what is the role, and how closely it fits with your needs and personality.

Vault.com Career Guide to Consulting, 2000 edition aims to give you the tools and information to make an informed judgement-not only so that you can make a credible impression in the interview, but so that you are making the right decision for your future. Discover if consulting is for you with our handing checklist. Learn about what consultants really do on the job, from start date to completion. This guide contains the most up-to-date, accurate information on consulting firms available today.

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Very Helpful.......2000-06-16

This book is a great way to get the inside track on consulting. Instead of focusing on multiple industries it targets consulting. This gives you precise information about consulting and puts many hard to understand things into lamens terms. Great read for anybody in college or looking to change careers.

Top Consulting Firms: The Vault.com Career Guide to the Top Consulting Firms (Vault Reports)

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A powerful read
Not what I thought it would be
Outstanding guide!
Best guide to consulting jobs I have seen

Top Consulting Firms: The Vault.com Career Guide to the Top Consulting Firms (Vault Reports)
Marcy Lerner , Chandra Prasad , Nikki Scott , and Samer Hamadeh
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ASIN: 1581310390

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Whether you're consulting savvy or can't name even one of Porter's Five Forces, you'll find The Vault Reports Guide to Management Consulting an ideal tool for your job search in the consulting industry. With this 340 page guide, you'll receive an introduction to the management consulting industry and two-page entries on well over 40 major consulting firms.

The Management Consulting guide tells you what you need to know, including:

Industry rankings

The life of a consultant

Vital company stats

History and current operations

The lowdown on the firm's hiring practices

The inside scoop on each firm's social life, pay, perks, workload, dress Read the Management Consulting Industry Guide, and find out:

How consultants rank the prestige of their firms and their competitors

Which firms have "up or out" policies

What strategy consulting, operations consulting, and IT consulting are, and which firms specialize in each

All about the Balanced Scorecard, used by hot new consulting firm Renaissance Worldwide

How much you can expect to make within a few years at McKinsey, known to insiders as "The Firm"

Why the DC-based firm The Advisory Board is known as "The Melrose Place" of consulting firms

What percentage of base salary the Boston Consulting Group grants as year-end bonuses

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A powerful read.......1999-02-26

I'm not sure what the last writer meant. This book is the centerpiece of my section here at business school - the writing is great and the info goes deep. As for the binding -- again, I think the last writer is confusing this book with another -- it's a fully bound book.

Not what I thought it would be.......1999-02-17

I bought this book due to all the great reviews I read on it, but I found that it didn't really have all that much info that was different from what you could find at the companies web site, I was also disappointed that it was simply a binded book of copies, not a actual book!!! It did have some good information, but I would suggest just going to the websites of the company

Outstanding guide!.......1998-11-23

I found this guide to be tremendously valuable. I also found the companion "Vault Reports Guide to Case Interviews" to be indispensable.

Best guide to consulting jobs I have seen.......1998-10-23

This is by far the best guide to careers in Management Consulting I have read. Thanks, Vault Reports!

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Plan, conduct, and evaluate effective internship experiences!

School administration internships are a central ingredient in any preservice program, and they can be very effective if they are well-organized and well-designed. Capasso and Daresh have created a blueprint for an effective internship program that can turn preservice administrators into transformational leaders, not simply organizational survivors.

The School Administrator Internship Handbook is written for the intern, to both understand the internship program and the roles of all of the participants in the program. The book helps the intern self-assess leadership ability, challenge one’s commitment to the field, become a reflective practitioner, and collaborate with the field mentor and the university faculty member to make the internship a rich and valuable experience.

Internship directors will find that the handbook addresses them as well, providing opportunities to assess students’ abilities to take theory to practice, develop community outreach programs, and assess the effectiveness of the entire preservice program. And mentors will get a clear understanding of their role in facilitating the intern’s experience.

Other key topics include:

Examining current practices
Establishing goals and objectives
Defining internship standards
Preparing project proposals
Developing leadership skills
Understanding the roles of the participants
Evaluating and assessing the participants and the program
Moving beyond the internship

Finally, an effective blueprint for preservice programs! This practical guide is designed for everyone involved in the school administrator internship, especially the men and women who will be stepping into assistant principalships, principalships, and other administrative roles.

Ronald L. Capasso is currently an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey. He has spent 30 years in public school education, having served twelve years as a superintendent of schools in Pennsville, New Jersey and five years as an Assistant Superintendent of Schools in Ramsey, New Jersey. He has also served as a consultant and speaker for the U.S. Office of Education, the New Jersey State Department of Education, and various government agencies and school districts.

John C. Daresh has spent more than 20 years in higher education, having served as a faculty member and administrator at the University of Texas at El Paso, the University of Northern Colorado, Ohio State University, and the University of Cincinnati. He has also worked as a consultant and speaker for school districts, universities, and state departments of education across the United States and in England.

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Title: The History of Family Business, 1850-2000.(Book Review)
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Publication: Canadian Journal of History (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 2004
Publisher: University of Saskatchewan
Volume: 39 Issue: 1 Page: 215(3)

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What is the most important issue facing business today? Globalization, the technological revolution, supply chain management, core competencies, staff retention, price competition?
Important though all of these are, something else is emerging as an equally critical challenge facing companies in the technological, globalized, knowledge economy ahead. It is the concept of Citizen Brands. Its importance arises because it embodies not just one, but three crucial strategic issues for the business world:
* Values (what the company stands for);
* Corporate citizenship (playing an active role in society);
* Branding (the tangible and intangible attributes that are encompassed in a name or trademark).
This book is about how these three elements come together in an integrated way; about how they define a company's relationship with all the relevant people and institutions it has to deal with - customers, employees, shareholders, suppliers, government or whoever. Put another way, it is about achieving corporate success through putting society at the heart of the company.
Companies through their direct actions (for example employment) and through their intermediaries - brands - are an integral part of the social and economic world in which they operate, needing to reflect the values and aspirations that exist; the differences and similarities. This is why corporate managers need to bring society into the company; why they need to turn their brands into citizen brands.
In the emerging networked, post-industrial world, managing that relationship is one of the most important challenges that companies face. And companies that understand and embrace this are likely to be the ultimate winners in the future.

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Mary Parker Follett agreed with Sheldon about the need to emphasize human factors in management, but placed greater stress on the need to develop a science of cooperation. Follett's "Law of the Situation" sought to bridge the gap between an ideal of scientific management and the unilateral position that it seemed to involve in practice. In effect she was proposing the same collaboration between leaders and subordinates that was usually to be found between leaders of the same rank.

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Information technology (IT) is revolutionizing how businesses operate. Indeed, advanced IT is becoming the single most powerful force shaping the structure and functioning of work organizations-plants, offices, and executive suites. But as managers across the country can verify, the revolution has not been without casualties: systems don't run the way they're supposed to, millions of dollars are lost in downtime and missed opportunities, and computer systems intended to expand creativity and productivity instead produce unwanted organizational responses and remain underutilized, symbols of the gap between good intentions and actual results. What accounts for this situation, according to Richard Walton, is management's failure to fully appreciate the interdependence of technology and organization. Although planners may understand the profound side effects that technology can have on organizations, they make little or no effort to predict or manage them, and they wind up unprepared when they go wrong. Using the experiences of diverse organizations such as IBM, AT&T, GE, Rolls-Royce, Mrs. Fields Inc, the IRS, and twelve others, Up and Running concretely illustrates the many ways in which IT and organizational dynamics can impinge upon one another, both positively and negatively. Walton takes the reader through each step of the implementation process, from creating a context that will ensure that new IT systems are "aligned, owned, and mastered," through the design phase where technical and social components of the IT system are integrated, and finally on through the introduction and diffusion phases. Up and Running provides a practical framework that can help organizations get the most out of their information systems. It offers new and revealing insights on a number of critically important features that planners and researchers alike have widely overlooked, features that have kept organizations from reaping the full benefits of technological advances.

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BEWARE -- this UNABRIDGED BOOK is a One HOUR CASSETTE.......2005-01-12

IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A BOOK LOOK ELSEWHERE.

Excellent advice!.......2004-05-25

If we are able to master negotiating techniques our salary, relationships, and the prices we pay for everything change. I only wish this book were longer!

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Review of Alexander and Serfass' Futuring Tools.......2004-03-18

The text, "Futuring Tools for Strategic Quality Planning in Education" was designed to help educators envision the future. I believe the tools offered provide a systematic approach to futuring using practical tools which can be applied to the strategic planning process. The authors have been educators for many years and the techniques offered can be used in many situations.

I plan to utilize these tools in preparation of the Strategic Plan for my office. The Office of Sponsored Programs (Grants Administration) is new office to support grant writing and funding activities at my university. Therefore, I plan to use the Delphi Technique, Trend Extrapolations, and Scenario Planning to solicit input from the various colleges thought the campus. It is necessary to determine the trends, interest, experience, goals and objectives which relate to grant funding needs to build.

I believe the strengths of the futuring process are in the systemic manner in which an organization can analyze trends to determine the potential impact to the organization. Once the trends are recognized and the futuring analysis completed, organizations are better able to position themselves to take advantage of future trends or to avoid others. If we do not consider the future, then we are at the mercy of events and may not have the ability to respond in a timely manner. When we reflect upon the future, we are better prepared to envision and control the outcome of the future.

I believe that the weaknesses are accepting trends or the predictions as factual. We can react to those who are authorities on particular subjects as if what they have predicted is a certainly. Sometimes acting upon the predictions of those who have placed themselves as authorities may in fact bring to bear the prediction, rather than the prediction being the impetus for our actions.

Very good planning techniques.......2000-05-11

The book gives good and very detailed information. Every chapter is organized similary so it is very easy to read. It is definetely a superb source for both organizational and individual future planning.

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Lissack and Gunz have gathered many of the leading practitioners from the science of complexity and its emerging applications to management--to give us an up-to-date, comprehensive understanding of this important new field and how it can change the way we think about the organizations. Complex systems, which consist of many interacting entities and exhibit properties such as self-organization, evolution, and constant novelty, exist in all domains of our world. The metaphors and models derived from complexity, say Lissack and Gunz, can be used to make sense of these systems and help managers shape them. The three chapters in Part I introduce the topic of complexity science and how it relates to modern management practice, providing a context for the section on strategy, creativity, communications, and applications that follow. Part II examines strategy from a complexity perspective and complexity from a strategy perspective. In Part III the authors look at the intersection of complexity, creativity, and communication. Part IV on applications, examines how complexity-influenced theories of management actually affect routine management practice. Throughout, the book makes clear that what worked in a simpler, clearer world will not work today. State of the art yet basic enough to remain timely well into the future, this book will prove indispensable for organization decision makers everywhere and their academic colleagues.

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Title: Just Taxes: The Politics of Taxation in Britain 1914-1979.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
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Just Taxes: the Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1914-1979.(Book Review): An article from: Canadian Journal of History
Ewen A. Cameron
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This digital document is an article from Canadian Journal of History, published by University of Saskatchewan on December 1, 2004. The length of the article is 1193 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Just Taxes: the Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1914-1979.(Book Review)
Author: Ewen A. Cameron
Publication: Canadian Journal of History (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2004
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Future Marketing reveals the most important marketing trend for the new millennium: targeting specific generational segments through media most acceptable to each of those segments. Customization is the name of the game. This book explores this convergence of consumer information with powerful new marketing tools and reveals what marketers need to know to reach seniors, boomers, and generations X and Y effectively.

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Compensation Decision Making: A Computer-Based Approach
Nancy A. Bereman , and Mark L. Lengnick-Hall
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Compensation Decision Making: A Computer-Based Approach (Dryden Press Series in Management)
Nancy A. Bereman Mark L. Lengnick-Hall
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Life Insurance: A Financial Planning Approach
Mark S. Dorfman , and Saul W. Adelman
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Life Insurance: Financial Planning Approach, 2d ed. (book reviews): An article from: Journal of Risk and Insurance
Jane H. Finley
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Risk and Insurance, published by American Risk and Insurance Association, Inc. on December 1, 1993. The length of the article is 631 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Life Insurance: Financial Planning Approach, 2d ed. (book reviews)
Author: Jane H. Finley
Publication: Journal of Risk and Insurance (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 1993
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Comparing the economic and conventional approaches to financial planning (NBER working paper series)

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Comparing the economic and conventional approaches to financial planning (NBER working paper series)
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