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Monitor vs Accenture vs Marakon |
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Perhaps |
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03/22/2001 |
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I went to a top three B-school and can tell you that out of the people who wanted to go into consulting, Monitor and Marakon were heads and shoulders above Accenture (or AC at the time) AC had the reputation for paying more, but no self-respecting MBA would actually work for them if they had had offers from either one of the other two. They were kind of a joke. |
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But I think that other poster didn't mean which firm had the "best" reputation among students whose friends worked at those firms.
I think he meant which firm was the "best" in terms of attacting talent, providing value to clients and reputation within industry. But as he said, Monitor can keep up with Accenture in value and quality of services (at least in the strat practice), but Accenture cannot keep up with either firm in the prestige among grad students at UPenn, Harvard and Kellogg.
Also, keep in mind, that people make "jokes" about things they fear or don't understand. People with low self-esteem pick on targets they think are easy. Then when they are unexpectedly beaten they just walk away and say "he's not worth fighting over anyway."
I'm not putting down your classmates, but remember, you are talking about a small cohort of people, all of whom have only each other to compare themselves with, so if they're all going to work for the same 2 or 3 firms, then it's natural to think that one of them would be afraid not to follow the pack. If you make jokes about a firm, even if they're unfounded and inappropriate, then naturally someone will be afraid that you will make jokes about THEM if they don't along.
Also, keep in mind that Michael Porter's Monitor and HBS have a special relationship with each other which results in many students from HBS going to Monitor and many employees from Monitor going to HBS, so of course many of those people would be making that choice. It's not a bad choice, at all, but keep in mind that this is a major factor in making that selection.
It's like falling for a terrific woman who the other guys think is a dog. You usually walk away from that opportunity and end up taking some skinny broad from "the right family" who has the "look" but not the goods.
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