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Best MBAs for consulting - McKinsey, Bain, BCG

For many MBA graduates, pursuing a career in management consulting is a natural next step after completing their studies. In this article, we provide a ranking of the best MBA programs for students who want to go into consulting and join one of the world’s top-3 firms. We also take a broad look at the MBA hiring landscape in consulting and provide some guidance on how to join McKinsey, BCG or Bain (MBB) as an MBA graduate.

What are the best MBAs for a consulting career? To identify the best MBA

Why NHS-Industry Partnerships are set to grow in 2025

With NHS-Industry Partnerships set to increase, here are 5 trends we expect to see over the next 12 months:
The value of partnership working between the NHS and industry partners is now well recognised and understood.
The ‘transfer of value’ declared in partnership working programmes grew from £7.1 million in 2021 to £24.9 million in 2023 and is likely to grow again between 2024 and 2026.
We anticipate this increased recognition of value will result in greater demand for these programmes. It’s a...

The Most Accurate Receipt OCR Software in 2024

Receipt OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software is among the technological innovations that have emerged in recent years to support the work of accountants and bookkeepers. As the industry moves towards digitisation driven in no small measure by the governments’ initiatives - such as Making Tax Digital in the UK -, OCR receipt-scanning tools have become an integral part of the accounting automation toolkit.
For those unfamiliar with the technology, however, there may be some hesitation to g...

How Dext Helps Woodbridge Waterfields Expand its Services and Reach - Dext Blog | Dext

Woodbridge Waterfields Ltd supports a wide range of clients with audit, accounting, tax and advisory services. Founder Tariq Ally – qualified as both a lawyer and an accountant – was an early adopter of cloud technology and was quick to see the potential of Dext from its earliest inception.

Here, Tariq explains why Dext has been an integral part of the firm’s tech stack for over a decade and how it helps him to provide a more insightful, data-led advisory service to clients today. He also share

Accountant case study - Accountants 4 Contractors

Having worked with clients in the cloud for many years, Accountants 4 Contractors - an arm of Rodliffe Accounting Limited - decided to make the move to FreeAgent in 2018 to meet the needs of its growing client base of more than 600 contractors. In this case study, David Hughes of Accountants 4 Contractors reflects on how FreeAgent made the transition as seamless as possible and how the software helps Accountants 4 Contractors work far more effectively with its contractor clients.

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Lisa Chenevert Williams

With a decades-long career at Dow spanning disciplines as diverse as operations, supply chain, IT and procurement, Lisa Chenevert Williams was presented with a unique challenge by the company’s board of directors and executive leadership team. In 2021, she was tasked with leading a cross functional team in developing the material science multinational’s first-ever enterprise-wide strategy for contract labor.“We needed a strategy and a framework that looked at the entire investment holistically,...

Indeed Flex

A company that lives and breathes its guiding principles In some organizations, the company’s values are little more than words displayed on a wall or in the pages of the company handbook. That couldn’t be further from the case for recruitment tech firm Indeed Flex.As an employer, Indeed Flex puts its guiding principles at the heart of everything it does:Headquartered in London, with offices throughout the UK and in some US states, Indeed Flex connects job seekers with temporary w...

Douglas Brown

As CEO and co-founder of a certified minority-owned business, Douglas Brown puts DE&I at the heart of everything his business does.Founded in April 2020, Halo Consulting is an executive search firm that partners with high-growth B2B enterprise SaaS startups. Over the last four years, Brown has observed his clients’ growing desire to hire leaders from diverse backgrounds — and to partner with a search firm that can help them do that. Overall, diverse candidates have accounted for 47% of Halo Cons...