Some of the top consultancies have been named to Working Mother magazine's annual list of the "100 Best Companies for Working Mothers". read more

Global leadership study finds leadership development is embedded in the culture of top companies. read more

Global management consultancy Hay Group has created two new roles to strengthen and build its global PR function. 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

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

The global thought leadership ranking for consulting firms, White Space, has undergone a dramatic reallocation of the top positions during the first quarter of 2007. 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

UK's second largest business process outsourcer has made a series of new appointments to its executive board. read more

van Hovell joins F&C; from McKinsey & Co., where she was one of the youngest ever Principals of the firm. read more

Michael E Porter and Mark R Kramer's Strategy and Society: The Link Between Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility recognized as Top Article of the Year. read more

Our management consultancy columnist, Mick James, this week talks to Andrew Veal, director at Troika, about the company's commitment to doing things differently. read more

Who would have thought ten years ago, that the likes of Accenture and IBM would be ranked alongside McKinsey in terms of the quantity and quality of their "thought leadership" – the intellectual high ground of consulting. read more

In an ever-tightening recruitment market, management consultancy recruiters are fast-running out of options. 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

Corporate culture and values, the role and future of human resources and leadership development are all issues which concern clients but a new report has found that there is comparatively little material written about them. read more

Corporate culture and values, the role and future of human resources and leadership development are all issues which concern clients but a new report has found that there is comparatively little material written about them. read more

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

BBC media strategist joins KPMG as convergence in the media market is taking hold. read more

Have you ever had a lousy experience of working with a management consultancy recruiter? Or recently been impressed by the calibre of headhunter who’s assisted you? Or perhaps you’ve just been active in the jobs market in the last 12 months and would like to see how your experiences compare with those of other consulting candidates?

That’s why we undertake a comprehensive survey of management consultancy candidates every year, aimed specifically at uncovering i) changing trends in the consulting recruitment space and ii) the Good, the Bad and the Ugly of the suppliers serving candidates looking for a UK consulting job. read more

Our management consultancy columnist, Mick James, this week follows up on his look at internal consultancy and its places in today’s business due to a flurry of reader response. read more

Russell Fradin, most recently president and CEO of The Bisys Group, a leading provider of outsourcing solutions for the financial services sector, will succeed current Chairman and CEO Dale Gifford, who recently announced his intention to retire. read more

Joel Shaiman, former managing director at BlackRock Inc., and Scott Robinson, former McKinsey partner, join the firm’s New York office. read more

Ernst & Young has been recognised as a Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise (MAKE) for the ninth year in a row, and was ranked first in the 'Creating an Environment for Collaborative Knowledge-Sharing' and 'Developing Knowledge Workers Through Senior Management Leadership' categories of the 2006 MAKE awards. read more

The consultancy is to sponsor events to help state sector students with university applications. read more

Our management consultancy columnist, Mick James, this week looks at the growing controversy in Germany at the use of management consultants – and the battle between McKinsey and Roland Berger for the title of top German strategy consultancy… read more

Executives' confidence in economic conditions has risen for the second consecutive quarter. read more

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

Aon Consulting boosts its global team by giving former UK chief executive a greater global role and creating new global chief administrator position. read more

Management Consultancy recruitment specialists Prism pen this occasional column providing market insights for consulting candidates and recruiters alike. read more

Depending on the stage they've reached in their careers, the average UK management consultant can expect to earn between £38,000 and £144,000 per annum – according to the 2006 Management Consultancy Salary Benchmarking Report, just published by the sector's leading website Top-Consultant.com. read more

Management consultancies doing business in the UK consulting market have reacted to the talent shortages now gripping the sector, according to Top-Consultant.com's annual survey of over 1,000 management consultants – the full results of which are to be published next week. read more

Nearly 1,000 management consultancy candidates took part in Top-Consultant.com’s annual recruitment channel survey over the festive season – ensuring they receive a copy of the 2006 report when released in February 2006 (NB. read more

With clients winding down for Christmas, management consultancy guru Mick James takes a festive look at the industry and imagines the ideal Christmas presents he would want to give some of the best known consulting brands – what would you add to the list?!. read more

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has appointed Rajat Kumar Gupta, a Senior Partner and former Managing Director of McKinsey & Company, as his special adviser for management reform. read more

One of the themes we’ve been exploring recently in Top Consultant is how the upheavals of the past few years have created a new wave of consultancies, as practitioners from former firms have gone it alone to start up new entities with fresh approaches to consultancy. read more

Aon Corporation has found itself a new head for its consulting division. read more

We all know that the dot com boom is back; Google tops $80bn whilst simultaneously putting the once mighty TV advertising business into decline. 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

The rise of the offshore providers has been watched by consulting practitioners with a mixture of fear and awe. 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

McKinsey & Co is to employer branding what Lance Armstrong is to sports: an undisputed winner. read more

McKinsey & Company is to increase its staff in Asia by 30 percent and plans to add more than 700 people in the region in the next two years, Reuters has reported. read more

It’s funny – no matter how well the rest of the consulting industry is doing, for some reason people don’t truly believe the market can be doing well again unless strategy consulting work is going through the roof. read more

Over 1,000 management consultancy candidates took part in Top-Consultant.com’s latest annual recruitment channel survey, now in its fourth year of publication. read more

Bonuses at consulting firms rebounded in 2004, but not nearly enough to stop retention from becoming a major headache in 2005. read more

Stephen Warrington, 42, formerly of McKinsey and Unisys, has joined DiamondCluster International as the Managing Director of the United Kingdom practice. read more

Accenture and McKinsey & Company are among the winners of this year’s Global MAKE (Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises) awards. 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

John Rose, a leading media and entertainment consultant, has joined The Boston Consulting Group as a director to help build the firm's media and technology practice. 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

Infosys Consulting, the US-based arm of Infosys Technologies, said it can manage a 40 percent cost advantage during a recent meeting with analysts in Chennai, India, where the company discussed its growth plans. 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

Two executives with deep expertise in the insurance and health care industries, Rick Madock and Robert Rudy, have joined DiamondCluster International as partners. 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

Businesses around the world increasingly are taking into account that improvements in the social and natural environments are part and parcel of an improved business environment, and United Nations engagement with the business community is a substantial factor in greater social activism by companies, UN senior officials said at a press briefing last week in New York. 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

McKinsey’s Marvin Bower: Vision, Leadership & the Creation of Management Consulting, the official biography of Marvin Bower, builder of McKinsey & Company and ‘father of modern management consulting, was released this month. read more

Activity in management consultancy recruitment in North America is slowly but assuredly gathering pace. read more

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

Rolf Hochhuth's latest play created a furore even before its premier on Friday, with the chairman of the German Federation of Industry reportedly calling it “the embodiment of bad taste”. read more

Dominic Barton, who headed McKinsey & Company's Seoul office for the last three years, has moved to the Shanghai office as chairman of McKinsey's Asia Pacific region, and Stephen Bear, 50, director at the firm, has been named as the new head of the Seoul office. 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

EDS has strengthened its position in one of the fastest growing segments of the services market with the establishment of a new Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) portfolio organization. read more

A two-tier remuneration path has emerged in the management consultancy sector this last year, with a major divide emerging between the most successful consultants and their less fortunate colleagues. read more

You have to hand it to McKinsey. read more

Following its annual meeting of directors in the Asia-Pacific region McKinsey announced it would establish its Asia-Pacific headquarters in east China's Shanghai. read more

Strategic consulting looks set to make a comeback on both sides of the Atlantic, according to the latest research. read more

Merging marketing with management consulting seems to be a growing trend. read more

Tata Power could be set to follow the example of Tata Steel and Tata Chemicals and bring in McKinsey to advise it on a cost-reduction restructuring programme. read more

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

Read the online candidate forums and it becomes clear that the majors – Accenture, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, PA Consulting, EDS, McKinsey… read more