Consulting Network caught up with Kevin Gao, a former Mckinsey consultant and an Entrepreneur. Here’s what he had to say.. 1. Kevin, can you brief our readers at Consulting Network about your background, and Education? Absolutely. I graduated Stanford with a focus in Economics and International Relations. I then spent several years working for McKinsey, based out...

Large numbers of companies are still in crisis one year on from Lehman Brothers collapse and most of the companies are still focused on cutting costs, reducing capital investments and head counts, a McKinsey & Co. survey found. Survey also revealed that some companies have moved beyond merely coping with the crisis and are once again actively planning for the long...

I had always believed that BFSI was the biggest consumer of IT and they are the biggest spenders but my recent research on telecom proved it otherwise. Communication Service Providers (including hardware) is apparently the biggest single consumer of the IT and forms almost the 50% of the total IT spend worldwide. Quite a surprise. Yes I thought so. I would have loved...

Economic Times reported that a quarter of all Indian companies plan to hire in October-December , up from one in five who said they will recruit in the three months adding up to October, says a survey by HR consulting firm Manpower that points to perceptions across corporate board rooms that the slowdown has bottomed out and brighter times are just around the corner. The...

L Brooks Entwistle, MD and CEO of Goldman Sachs (India) Securities offered following tips to aspirants planning to carve a career in firms like Mckinsey and Goldman Sachs 1. Be a team player, not a solo star: “Goldman Sachs doesn’t hire super stars who cannot work in teams. It is just not our culture! We look for people who are very good at their job but are able...

Poor project communication will cause many projects to end unsuccessfully. In today’s world, however, projects need to be undertaken in partnership with the business, and this partnership absolutely requires solid communication. In fact, many of the problems that surface on a project are actually the results of poor communication. Poor communication can lead to...