Where you should look for a job if you can't break into consulting, according to a Harvard career advisor

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A Harvard career adviser says students should consider options other than consulting.

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New York's viral new trash cans are the result of a $4 million project involving consultancy giant McKinsey

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McKinsey & Company was contracted in 2022 to figure out how to tackle New York City's sidewalk trash problem.

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McKinsey tried to boost the morale of senior staff by blasting Eminem and Bob Marley at an internal event, report says

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Eminem was on the playlist when McKinsey partners met earlier in April in Denmark.

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Sundar Pichai, James Gorman, and Sheryl Sandberg have all worked for McKinsey. Here's why the consultancy is a CEO factory.

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

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  • Many Fortune 500 CEOs have previously worked at McKinsey.
  • These include Google's Sundar Pichai and ex-Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg.
  • The firm has become known as a CEO factory, but has sparked controversy in the past, too.

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McKinsey advised drug companies on how to 'turbocharge' opioid sales. Now it's under criminal investigation.

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Management consultancy McKinsey has paid nearly $1 billion to states, Native American tribes, and other groups to resolve opioid-related lawsuits.

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McKinsey is offering some staff 9 months of pay and career coaching services to leave the firm: report

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McKinsey is reportedly paying its staff to leave the firm, British newspaper The Times reported on Saturday. The management consulting firm is dangling career coaching services and up to nine months worth of pay.

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Consulting firms are cutting projections and tightening their belts as demand for their work slows

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Accenture cut its revenue forecast for 2024 as demand for consulting services slows.

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These are the skills employers are looking for as AI use expands, according to leaders at Davos

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Plenty of companies are touting their AI wares at the World Economic Forum in Davos this year.

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4 careers where workers will have to change jobs by 2030 due to AI and shifts in how we shop, a McKinsey study says

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Applicants line up at a job fair at the Ocean Casino Resort in Atlantic City, NJ, on April 11, 2022.

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Former Amazon, Meta, and JPMorgan employees on the moment they knew they had to leave their dream job to save their mental health

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A former Meta experienced panic attacks and a global head of communications landed in the ER — all due to stress and burnout.

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