Huron Consulting

Huron is a consulting firm specializing in healthcare, higher education, life sciences, and commercial industries. Headquartered in Chicago, the firm has been around for 20 years, reliably delivering solutions for clients related to business strategies, operations and efficiency, and consumer transformation.

Table of Contents:

1. Firm Key Stats
2. Huron Consulting History
3. Huron Consulting Careers
4. Huron Consulting Internship
5. Practice Areas
6. Industries
7. Huron Consulting Locations
8. Exit Opportunities
9. Target Schools
10. Diversity Programs
11. Huron Consulting Culture
12. Huron Consulting Interview
13. Huron Consulting Salary

Firm Key Stats

Firm Website: huronconsultinggroup.com
Firm Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois
Firm Number of Employees: 4,609
Firm Number of Locations: 20
Firm Chief Executive: Jim Roth
Firm Revenue: $905.6 million

Huron Consulting History

Huron Consulting Group, commonly called only Huron, is named after Lake Huron. It was founded in 2002 in Chicago, Illinois, and went public in 2004. Huron has acquired many companies since its founding, including MyRounding, Studer Group, Threshold Consulting, Inc., and most recently AIMDATA, LLC. It has stayed in its lane since the early days, never veering too far from education, healthcare, and life sciences.

Huron Consulting Careers

Huron has many career options for aspiring or experienced consultants. Some previous employees have been dissatisfied with promotion and upward mobility options but these are in the minority. Open positions can be searched through here.

Huron Consulting Internship

Huron recruits undergraduates for their summer analyst internships. Recruiting normally takes place the fall before the actual internships at select schools. Interested students should inquire through their school to see if a recruiting officer is available to speak about opportunities.

Practice Areas

Huron’s practice areas are relatively standard in the consulting industry, providing clients with everything they will typically need professional help with.

• • Business Operations
  • Care Transformation
  • Consumer Transformation
  • Digital, Technology & Analytics
  • Organizational Transformation
  • Research Enterprise
  • Strategy & Innovation

Industries

Huron industries has stayed consistently in higher education, healthcare, and life sciences since its founding, also acquiring several digital and cloud based companies over the years.

• • Education
  • Energy & Utilities
  • Financial Services
  • Healthcare
  • Industrials & Manufacturing
  • Life Sciences
  • Public Sector

Huron Consulting Locations

Huron offices are primarily concentrated in the U.S. but there are some international locations as well.

United States

• • • Buffalo, New York
    • Hillsboro, Oregon
    • Chicago, Illinois
    • Denver, Colorado
    • Lexington, Massachusetts
    • New York, New York
    • Pensacola, Florida
    • Santa Monica, California
    • St. Petersburg, Florida
    • Tempe, Arizona
    • Washington, District of Columbia

Canada

• • • Toronto, Ontario

Asia Pacific

• • • Bengaluru, India
    • Chennai, India
    • Jaipur, India
    • Noida, India
    • Pune, India
    • Singapore

Europe

• • • Lausanne, Switzerland
    • Zürich, Switzerland

Exit Opportunities

Consultants should be well prepared for further similar roles in consulting after leaving Huron. They should be well prepared to execute the necessary functions and deliver what is expected at most other firms. Those wishing to branch out into consulting in different industries, however, should consider why they’re making this change and be able to justify it.

Target Schools

The several top schools are in the U.S., but Huron employees have attended a variety of universities not mentioned here. Most internship recruiting, however, does happen at a few select schools.

• • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • University of Michigan
  • DePaul University
  • University of Notre Dame

Diversity Programs

Inclusion and diversity are values held by Huron leadership. The firm has established groups and initiatives to foster professional growth and support the advancement of underrepresented individuals, or those with uniquely challenging circumstances. Currently the firm specifically supports working parents, women, Asians, and Black-identifying employees through these programs.

Huron Consulting Culture

Experiences of former employees are largely positive, with only a few negative outliers. Overall, people have been pleased with their work environment, benefits, and project organization. Many say that the culture is “positive and supportive”, provides “decent pay”, and has “good people”.

Huron Consulting Interviews

The Huron Consulting Group interview process consists of three rounds:

1. Screening call
2. Case interview
3. 2 behavioral interviews

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Some candidates are asked to conduct all three rounds in one “SuperDay,” while others have them staggered over several days. Some candidates had peer or senior director interviews as well.

Huron Consulting Interview Questions

Questions previous interviewees have been asked:

• • How would you handle a problematic situation?
  • How would you describe what a consultant does?
  • What techniques do you use to build a more cohesive team?
  • What would you do if you were to ask your team what they don’t like and how would you convince them?
  • Why do you want to work for Huron?
  • What would you do if a project was going over its deadline?

Huron Consulting Salary

Though most employees are satisfied with their salaries, some have complained that promotions are not adequately compensated, and more work is often expected with little additional pay or bonuses. Check out our salaries report which details compensation at hundreds of firms.

• Associate consultant: $98,822
• Senior consultant: $139,448
• Technical analyst: $95,820
• Senior software engineer: $157,499

Conclusion

Huron is a good mid-size firm that will offer solid consulting experience to any enthusiastic students, recent grads, and even those with other consulting experience. Applicants would do well to look into the management and culture of the location they’re specifically applying at, but can generally expect a collaborative, encouraging environment.

 

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