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...

Consulting biggies, BCG, Bain and Mckinsey are back in the limelight. Engineering and construction giant Larsen and Toubro (L&T) has already implemented two five-year plans to reposition the company, which was heavily into engineering, procurement and construction segments, with a large exposure to commodity businesses such as cement and ready-mix concrete, to a more...

Following is an open forum discussion picked from our Group. Mayank Gupta asked : What all skills do I need to build to get through Consulting/Strategy industry. I am an MBA Marketing and B.Tech (Mechanical and Automation Engineering) fresher with no prior experience. In these times of recession, every where I read they have been telling to build up your skill sets....

Consultants cannot always be right, they also make mistakes, says the Mckinsey India boss who believes consulting is coming of age in India. Adil Zainulbhai is a good sport — he doesn’t mind when I ask him if he’s heard all the McKinsey jokes. “I love them,” he says. In fact, the McKinsey India managing director’s down to earth attitude, candour and sense...

A friend of mine, a recent graduate from one of the premier business schools in India, called me, his predicament, he is an engineer from a tier-2 engineering college in India and an MBA, and yet, he has not managed to even remotely come close to a job offer His business school finished the placement season few months back, after managing to place approximately 50 percent...

The Indian Consulting Industry has been experiencing a resurgence in the last few years. This industry has been making rapid strides in the Indian market over the last decade and has witnessed a significant increase in the number of new entrants in this field. The solitary objective of the participants in this market has been to gain maximum market share in this highly...

One of the popular career choices for engineer’s these days is consulting; I would back that statement with full throttle since I am an engineer myself.  One of the prominent reasons for engineers wanting to carve a career for themselves in the consulting industry is that unlike a technical job (which can be monotonous), consulting provides a challenging learning experience....

Technorati Profile When Rajat Gupta first articulated the idea of a world-class management institute, that is now the Indian School of Business (ISB) in Hyderabad, a year had passed since he had taken the reins of McKinsey & Company worldwide. Back then, in late-1995, the concept driving ISB was a radical thought in India’s higher-education milieu. Gupta was clear...

It is clear that recession has affected most industries, while investment banking has been affected the most; the consulting industry has also been affected to a large extent by the sudden and unexpected downturn in the global economy. The current liquidity crunch in India seems to be creating a problem for Consulting Firms as many of the corporate clients are delaying...

McKinsey & Company released a report, “Clearing the Air on Cloud Computing,” yesterday that claims that large corporations could lose money through the adoption of cloud computing. The report paints cloud computing as over-hyped and maintains that cloud computing services like  Amazon Web Services (AWS) overcharge large companies for a service the companies...