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Ph.D. and Strategy Consulting |
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04/11/2003 |
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No this was not even a really good strategy even at the top of the market. 1 year work experience would not be adequate to join a strat firm, at least not at the MBA/Grad level.
In the good years, some of the strat firms might have taken you on in a special program, sometimes called APD or similar. You would start somewhat below an MBA, be trained on the job and in mini-MBA camp within the firm, and advance from there. After a year or two you would be treated as if you had come in with an MBA & would from that point advance normally.
However in this economy, you will be unlikely to land a strat job.
Better bet, go to a place like Booz Allen's "technology" business, which deals with govt and the military ... as you can imagine, that sort of business is ok these days. Ditto for other interesting firms like SAIC. Options like these may actually not be bad bets for (eventually) entering more traditional analytical strat consulting in 2 years if the economy turns up.
PhD
ex-Prof
strat consultant
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Thank you for the advice.
If strategy firms do not like non-business Ph.Ds, how come that many of the Accenture strat consultants were such Ph.D?
Or is this just the case for presigeous ones such as McK, BCG, Bain etc.
How did you end up in strat consulting with a PhD?
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