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Week Four: Store Visits, Baseball Games, Happy Hours, Oh My!
[Note to the reader: Since last week’s entry was pretty concerned with case team events, etc., this week’s entry is much more related to the actual analyses on the case that I’ve been involved with...
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A tale of two meetings…
My SA experience continued… If you’re looking for a regular smooth ride, consulting may not be the right position for you. My last week had all the ups and downs that I had been promised and then...
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Week Five: The Week That I Had Absolutely No Time
…and yet somehow managed to squeeze in 4 store phone calls, an Experience Sharing lunch, a Farewell lunch for my supervisor (who’s leaving for grad school), and Harry Potter Part 7:2. My supervisor is...
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What is a typical day in consulting?
My SA exprience continued…. It’s the one question that every candidate or person even slightly interested in consulting wonders about. It is asked at career fairs and interviews around the country...
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Week Six: 1 Client Update, 2 Team Dinners, and 3 Days at Summer Meeting
This week was, in a word, fantastic – which also means my post this week is much longer than usual. Let’s not bury the leads, then: the major events of the week were the Executive Team Update on...
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The only constant is change…
My SA exprience continued… One of the partners on our case was out to lunch with our ACI (associate consultant intern, a rising college senior who is also on the case) when he saw his Blackberry start...
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Week seven: The Week of Non-Work Bain Events
In true answer-first style, the events planned for this week (and alluded to in the title) included: – Lunch with the Bain Boston Office Head – A Red Sox game with all the other ACIs – A Red...
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The long awaited Bain LA summer offsite…
My SA exprience continued… Many, well actually, all of my blog posts thus far have described what they day-to-day of consulting is like and hopefully that information has been valuable (I know when I...
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The end of my summer experience
My SA experience continued… My summer ended in a rather poetic way, insomuch as a case can be poetic. Even though our engagement was scheduled to last for a few more weeks, my final day included an 8...
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Getting settled in Singapore…
Continued from my previous blog entry… Two ‘Asia weeks’ have past. They have been great so far! The first 4 days we spent looking for a new apartment. Traditionally, there are three residences where...
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Weeks Eight-Ten: Wrapping It Up
This entry is going to cover not only Week Eight but actually the rest of my internship all in one fell swoop – I know, I’m a terrible person, and I really should’ve kept on top of writing my blog...
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Time flies when you’re in Singapore
Continued from my previous blog entry…. The first period is coming to an end. Time flies because of all the fun here in Singapore. The first period started with the Introduction week, full of...
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Snowmaggedon… in Atlanta!
Shortly after my Chiefs embarrassing loss to the Ravens in the Wild Card round of the NFL playoffs on Sunday, I tried to take my mind off the debacle. The weather reports provided a convenient respite:...
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Shouting Fire in a Crowded Conference Room
Some call it a grenade, some call it a fire drill, some call it a short fuse, which I guess, when you think about it, is really just a particular aspect of a grenade or other hand-propelled exploding...
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Life in São Paulo…
It’s been 4 months of ‘radiosilence’ from my side. In this period, I sampled the restaurants, tried the work-life balance and got a dog, so I’d say it’s time for an update! So, what’s different here?...
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The Texas “summer meeting”… more than just a business meeting
Until Bain I had never worked for a company that had an offsite or retreat or annual anything, except a shareholder meeting! As a partnership, Bain has an interest in keeping its “shareholders” – its...
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The Boston Results Challenge…
This year I had the honor of serving as a member of the Results Challenge committee in the Boston office. Every year each office gives a Results Challenge award to recognize the case or cases from...
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A Perfect 11
11. It’s the number of players on the field for a soccer (or cricket) team, the number of Academy Awards won by the epic Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, and the number of points on the maple...
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Are we really too busy… to give back?
Recently, I took time away from my busy Recruiting Marketing duties to volunteer to help and review resumes during City Year’s annual resume workshop hosted here in the Bain Boston office. During this...
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(There’s no such thing as) a typical day for a Consultant
As Management Consultants, people often ask us what we do on a typical day at work. The common response is “it varies” or “there are no typical work days”. Even though these responses are far from...
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