Recommended Reading

We believe in the importance of reading and learning from others.  Below is a list of books we recommend to improve your career whether in consulting or not, and even some great books for personal improvement.

Case Interview Prep

• The Consulting Interview Bible
• How to Get Into the Top Consulting Firms: A Surefire Case Interview Method
• Case In Point: Complete Case Interview Preparation
• Crack the Case System: Complete Case Interview Prep
• Case Interview Secrets

Core Consulting

• The McKinsey Way
• The McKinsey Mind
• The Pyramid Principle
• The Lords of Strategy
• The Boston Consulting Group on Strategy
• Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors
• The McKinsey Engagement: A Powerful Toolkit For More Efficient and Effective Team Problem Solving
• The 80/20 Principle
• Million Dollar Consulting: The Professional’s Guide to Growing a Practice
• Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used
• Management Consulting: Delivering an Effective Project
• The Basic Principles of Effective Consulting

Leadership and Business

• Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t
• On Competition
• The Breakthrough Imperative
• Strategy Pure & Simple II: How Winning Companies Dominate Their Competitors
• The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter
• Purple Cow, Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
• The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations
• The New Strategic Thinking
• The Ultimate Question
• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
• Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
• Rain Making: Attract New Clients No Matter What Your Field
• First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently

Data Mining and Predictive Analytics

• Data Science for Business: What You Need to Know about Data Mining and Data-Analytic Thinking
• Data Mining for Business Intelligence: Concepts, Techniques, and Applications in Microsoft Office Excel with XLMiner

Excel Modeling and Optimization

• Management Science: The Art of Modeling with Spreadsheets

Scientific Retail Management

• The New Science of Retailing: How Analytics are Transforming the Supply Chain and Improving Performance

Product and Marketing Management

• Product Management
• Analysis for Marketing Planning
• Managing Marketing in the 21st Century
• Marketing Management

Business Skills

• Business Intelligence: A Managerial Approach
• Business Math For Dummies
• E-Z Business Math
• Essentials of Business Statistics
• Schaum’s Quick Guide to Business Formulas: 201 Decision-Making Tools for Business, Finance, and Accounting Students
• Schaum’s Outline of Basic Business Mathematics
• Say It With Charts: The Executive’s Guide to Visual Communication