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What You Need To Know When Preparing For the GMAT

Published on February 26, 2011 by Marquis in application process, application resources, Bschool admissions, Business School, Education, mba

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The article below was contributed by Conrad over at 2minute GMAT… Read the rest in hopes of helping my readers get ready for the GMAT exam. As those of you who have applied or are currently applying to business school programs know, the GMAT exam is a very important part of the MBA application process and, unfortunately, many applicants don’t have a clue of how to best prepare for it. There are many different approaches that can be used to study the core subjects, but, before deciding on a preparation strategy, one has to have some basic understanding of the GMAT and how

Conversation with Kevin Gao, Entrepreneur and Former McKinsey Consultant

Published on February 20, 2011 by Marquis in Business, career, consulting, Conversations, entrepreneurship, interview advice, notable organizations, other sites, professional advice

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In the video below, I’ll be introducing you to Kevin Gao, a former McKinsey Consultant who chose the path of entrepreneurship after leaving The Firm. His first venture was a company called Management Consulted… Read the rest that offers information about all things having to do with pursuing a career in Management Consulting. He started the business off as a website providing general information, but, over time, he evolved the business and started offering interview and resume preparation services along with specific case studies and job search strategies. Now, he’s working on a somewhat stealth-mode startup in the digital publishing space called

Princeton Senior with questions about my experiences at McKinsey

Published on February 13, 2011 by Marquis in career, consulting, management consulting, professional advice

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The email below came in from a reader who is currently in her senior year at Princeton, my alma mater (GO TIGERS!!! B-)). She was fortunate enough to make it to the closed list for interviews for Analyst positions with McKinsey and Bain. Her interviews are coming up next week and she had a series of questions for me about my experiences as a Management Consultant at McKinsey. It seems that she thought I’d been a Business Analyst there, but, despite her mistake, she asked some pretty good questions.

I didn’t answer all of her queries as fully as … Read the rest

Conversation with Jullien Gordon, Serial Entrepreneur and “Purpose Finder”

Published on February 5, 2011 by Marquis in Business, Business School, career, career path, Conversations, entrepreneurship, job search resources, mba, my peoples, other sites, professional advice, Stanford GSB

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In this entry, I present a discussion with Jullien Gordon… Read the rest, a serial entrepreneur and “Purpose Finder”, as a part of my “Conversations” interview series. Jullien is a good friend of mine from time at Stanford GSB (he was in the class behind me) and we’ve supported each other over the years in our various ventures. My long-time blog readers will recognize Jullien’s name because I’ve written about him a few times times in the past. I wanted to profile Jullien earlier as a part of the this interview series, but he was busy launching the Career Change Challenge and