MBAs going green: Students learn the value of the "triple bottom line" – profit, people, planet. read more

Bain & Company has appointed Cyrus Jilla as the new Managing Partner of the global consulting firm's operations in the United Kingdom, effective August 1, 2007. read more

The ranking of Tamra Chandler, managing vice president for Global Solutions and People for Hitachi Consulting, marks the third year in a row Hitachi Consulting has made the list. read more

The last years have seen a dramatic growth in hiring targets at many of the world’s best-known consulting brands. read more

An increasing numbers of employers are exploiting the potential of the internet; the main challenge is to find the right skills and resources at acceptable cost. read more

Deutsche Bank awarded Top US Corporate Career Website in the US. read more

Google claims number 1 position after McKinsey's 12-year reign as the Most Desirable Place to Work for MBA students in the US. read more

Big Four firms have rebuilt their consulting practices and this group is once again a force to be reckoned with, as evidenced in their thought leadership performance, according to a new report, which evaluates thought leadership published by the top global consulting firms. read more

The intellectual high ground of management consulting or ‘thought leadership’ has traditionally been held by the strategy firms. read more

Firm ranks 8th overall and highest among other consultancies on the list. read more

Rajan Srikanth, 44, has joined Mercer Human Resource Consulting to head the Asia region and to lead Mercer's Human Capital Advisory Services (HCAS) in Asia. read more

Robin Buchanan is currently the Senior Partner in the UK of Bain & Company. read more

The acquisition will boost HP Service’s capabilities in data warehousing, business intelligence, customer relationship management and security. read more

McKinsey, meet Google, the new runner-up in the race for the most desirable place to work for MBA students. read more

Publication of Management Consultancy's Top 75 league table of consulting firms has made possible a startling analysis of the online recruitment market for management consultants. read more

Even if you've spent the last 6 months jetting back and forth from client locations, few readers will not have heard of the TV series “The Apprentice”. read more

Buyout deals and a cash-rich private equity sector have dominated headlines in recent months. read more

Corven has appointed Steve Hoffman as Director and President of its newly-opened US office. read more

Strategy consultancy Roland Berger has had a difficult financial year but is now building up momentum in the run-up to Christmas, according to reports in the German media this week.

Revenues and profit for 2004 are expected to remain unchanged over the 2003 level, when turnover stood at 530m euros. read more

Consultants are rarely short of advice for others, but do they practice what they preach when it comes to creating healthy work cultures at their own organizations? Kennedy Information’s Consulting Magazine's annual Best Firms to Work For survey of thousands of consultants found several firms that were earning high praise from their toughest critics: their own employees. read more

To grow a healthy consulting business from scratch during the last years, differentiation was the key. read more

It's no surprise that as the economy is looking up, 70 percent of senior executives agree that information technology (IT) is highly relevant to enabling their companies to grow, but 60 percent complain that IT is inhibiting growth in key areas – and these attitudes affect IT spending. read more

A newly released survey of more than 4,000 MBAs and 14,000 undergraduates reveals US '04 graduates to be a careful group of job-hunters. read more

Minority students at the undergraduate and MBA levels have ranked McKinsey 8th in the Top 50 Diversity Employers Survey for 2004. read more

Bain & Company’s new 2004 M&A; Deal Success Research concludes that the initial stock market reaction to a merger announcement is a reliable predictor of share price performance of the acquiring company two years forward. read more

Q: When is Strategy Consulting not Strategy Consulting?

A: When it is called “Growth & Venturing”

When a sector of the strategy consulting market has managed to grow by double-digits even in the pits of 2003, you know it must be addressing a hot topic. read more

As we revealed last month, despite all the rebrandings, changes in ownership and new entrants that have hit the consulting market in the last two years, McKinsey remains the number one choice of consultancy employer. read more

Consulting Magazine has announced The Top 25 Most Influential Consultants 2004, its annual listing of influential consultants as judged by the leaders of 14 leading consulting firms. read more

New Bain & Company study suggests nearly two-thirds of software companies aren't profitable and may find themselves forced onto an acquisition path. read more

Despite all the rebrandings, changes in ownership and new entrants that have hit the consulting market in the last two years, McKinsey remains the number one choice of consultancy employer. read more

EDS has completed its sale of UGS PLM Solutions for $2.05 billion and it said it remains on track to achieve zero net debt and more than $5 billion in liquidity by year-end 2004. read more

EDS said it has reached a definitive agreement to sell its UGS PLM Solutions unit for $2.05 billion in cash to a group of three private equity firms: Bain Capital, Silver Lake Partners and Warburg Pincus. read more

Imagine being several years into your management consultancy career and having to start over from scratch. read more

Jack Welch will write Winning, which his publishers are describing as the “ultimate business how-to book”. read more

As appraisal and bonus-time comes around again, we can all look back at 2003 and feel contented that the year is ending on a considerably stronger footing than it started. read more

A new Bain & Company study shows that among 25 top-performing companies, four out of five suffered periods of stagnation or near collapse. read more

After two year of falling rates of employment for graduates from Ivy League universities, campus career centres are reporting a modest increase in this year's numbers of grads being hired right after graduation. read more

You have to hand it to McKinsey. read more

Innovative and heavily advertised brands can grow on average three times faster than their competitors according to a new study by Bain & Company. read more

The world’s most famous strategy consultancies have a bullet-proof appeal as employers of choice. read more

According to a new study released this week by Bain & Company companies are increasingly leaning on more and better methods of assessing economic uncertainty to reach elusive growth targets. read more

What does the future hold for strategy consultants? Numerous sources confirm we are starting to see the first green shoots in the world of strategy consulting, with McKinsey beginning to recruit once again and other major strategy firms also enjoying modest improvements in their order books. read more

McKinsey has ranked first for the seventh straight year in Universum’s survey, which ranks the 50 most desirable employers in the world, based on where MBA students in the US say they would like most to work. read more

A US judge yesterday dismissed all charges in the case against strategy consulting heavyweights Bain & Company, brought by former Club Med chief executive Serge Trigano. read more

It is every consulting partners’ worst nightmare. read more

Net consultancy Razorfish has appointed Cesar Brea as Senior VP of sales and marketing, in a move to invest in business development and lead generation. read more

Results from Top-Consultant.com`s candidate survey show McKinsey and Accenture as the two most favoured consultancy employers.

With 1700+ responses, the results will be of growing significance as consultancies enter a new growth phase and are looking to hire the best talent once again.

Surprise results include the relatively poor performance of Bain – suggesting that while the firm is good at retaining staff it is not so good at communicating its proposition to candidates in the market.

Full survey results can be found in the "news" section above read more

Strategy consultancy Bain & Co and web-consultancy WCI have both performed strongly in this year`s Sunday Times survey – 100 Best Companies to work for. read more

South African Airways has cancelled major long-term contracts with McKinsey, Bain and SH&E.; read more

Survey findings this week suggest strategy consulting has regained its position as the career of choice for graduating MBAs. read more