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INTRODUCTION 1
A Guide to This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
How We Wrote This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
VAULT PRESTIGE RANKINGS 7
Ranking Methodology - Consulting Top 50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
The Vault 50 · 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
Prestige Rankings by Practice Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
OVERVIEW OF CONSULTING 15
The Scoop
What is Consulting? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
Industry History and Trends: 2002-2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
Consulting Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
Getting Hired
Breaking In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31
The Resume/Behavioral Interview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
The Case Interview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37
Guesstimates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41
Brainteasers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44
Featured Employers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47
Featured Recruiters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49
VAULT TOP 50 51
1 McKinsey & Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52
2 The Boston Consulting Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62
3 Bain & Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72
4 Booz Allen Hamilton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82
5 Monitor Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .92
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6 Mercer Management Consulting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100
7 IBM Global Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106
8 Deloitte Consulting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112
9 Accenture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .120
10 Gartner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130
11 A.T. Kearney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .136
12 PwC Consulting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .142
13 KPMG Consulting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .152
14 Cap Gemini Ernst & Young . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .160
15 Marakon Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .168
16 Hewitt Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .176
17 Mercer Human Resource Consulting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .182
18 Towers Perrin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .186
19 Electronic Data Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .192
20 The Parthenon Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .200
21 Roland Berger Strategy Consultants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .204
22 L.E.K. Consulting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .212
23 DiamondCluster International . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .220
24 Computer Sciences Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .228
25 Oliver, Wyman & Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .234
26 Watson Wyatt Worldwide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .242
27 Sapient Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .246
28 American Management Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .254
29 Kurt Salmon Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .262
30 Stern Stewart & Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .270
31 Mars & Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .274
32 Hay Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .280

33 Grant Thornton LLP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .284
34 Charles River Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .288
35 ZS Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .294
36 Perot Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .300
37 Dean & Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .304
38 Andersen's Business Consulting Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .310
39 PRTM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .320
40 PA Consulting Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .326
41 Keane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .332
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42 First Manhattan Consulting Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .336
43 Logica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .340
44 The Corporate Executive Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .346
45 Swander Pace & Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .350
46 Commerce One Global Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .354
47 Aon Consulting Worldwide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .358
48 Aquent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .362
49 Value Partners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .366
50 Greenwich Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .370
BEST OF THE REST 375
Computer Task Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .376
First Annapolis Consulting, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .380
First Consulting Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .384
Haverstick Consulting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .388
Integral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .394

Lante . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .398
Sibson Consulting (Segal) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .402
Technology Solutions Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .406
APPENDIX 409
Industry Buzzwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .411
Index of Consulting Firms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .417
About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .421
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You’re probably reading this book because you’re interested in a career in
consulting. Well, you’ve got your work cut out for you — landing a
consulting job is a tough assignment. Even during the boom years of the
1990s, the supply of job applicants far outweighed the demand; in today’s
economy, the degree of difficulty has increased exponentially. Indeed,
getting in the door at top firms can be a herculean challenge, even if you are
armed with an impressive GPA, a degree from one of the finest colleges or
universities, and the ability to stay cool and collected under intense pressure.
Every year, tens of thousands of resumes flow into the recruiting departments
at top firms, but only a handful of the candidates receive an offer letter.
So how do you get past the front gate? How can you improve your chances
of receiving an invitation to the big party? The answer hearkens back to an
age-old piece of advice: do your homework. Consulting recruiters won’t hire
you just because of your high grades or top-tier schooling or extensive

volunteerism. These things matter, but they won’t get you the job. You need
to do your homework.
Consider this book a starting point for all of your research, whether it be
industry-related or about a specific firm. In it, you will find two general
types of information. First, we give an overview of the consulting industry
and some insight into the workings of the hiring process. Second, we
provide in-depth profiles of the top consulting firms. Each profile is the
result of painstaking research and detailed feedback offered by consultants
within the firms.
This year marks the second time we have ranked consulting firms in order of
their prestige. We surveyed more than 1,100 practicing consultants, asking
them to give a rating of each firm with which they were familiar. There are
definite advantages to working at a firm with a great reputation — such firms
often attract a higher caliber of clients and projects. Addionally, consultants
at very prestigious firms often find their future job prospects to be brighter.
But remember that prestige should be just one reason to choose a firm —
though for many consultants, it is the biggest reason.
Introduction
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A Guide to This Guide
If you’re wondering how our entries are organized, read on. Here’s a handy
guide to the information you’ll find packed into each firm profile in this book.
Firm facts
• Locations: A listing of the firm’s offices, with the city of its headquarters
bolded. For firms with a relatively small number of offices, all cities
are included.
• Practices Areas: Official departments that employ a significant portion of
the firm’s consultants. Practice areas are listed in alphabetical order
regradless of their size and prominence.

• Uppers and Downers: Good points and bad points of the firm, as gleaned
from associate interviews and surveys, as well as other research. Uppers
and downers are impressionistic perceptions and are not based on statistics.
• Employment Contact: The person, address or web site that the firm
identifies as the primary avenue to receive resumes or to answer questions
about the recruitment process. Sometimes more than one contact is given.
The Buzz
When it comes to other consulting firms, our respondents are full of opinions!
We asked them to detail their opinions and observations about firms other
than their own, and collected a sampling of these comments in the first-ever
version of The Buzz in the Vault Guide to the Top 50 Consulting Firms.
When selecting The Buzz, we included quotes most representative of the
common outside perceptions of the firms, even if in our opinion the quotes
did not accurately or completely describe the firm. Please keep in mind when
reading The Buzz that it’s often more fun for outsiders to trash than praise a
competing consulting firm. Nonetheless, The Buzz can be a valuable means
to gauge a firm’s reputation in the consulting industry, or at least to detect
common misperceptions.
The stats
• Employer Type: The firm’s classification as a publicly traded company,
privately held company or subsidiary.
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• Stock Symbol: The stock ticker symbol for a public company.
• Stock Exchange: The exchange on which a public company’s stock is traded.
• Chairman, CEO, etc.: The name and title of the leader of the firm.

Sometimes more than one name, or the name of the head of the firm’s
consulting business, may be provided.
• No. of Employees: The total number of employees, including consultants
and other staff, at a firm in all offices (unless otherwise specified). Some
firms do not disclose this information; numbers for the most recent year the
information is available (if at all) is included.
• Revenues: The gross sales (in U.S. dollars) the firm generated in the
specified fiscal year(s). Some firms do not disclose this information; numbers
for the most recent year the information is available (if at all) is included.
The profiles
The profiles are divided into three sections: The Scoop, Getting Hired and
Our Survey Says.
• The Scoop: The firm’s history, clients, recent firm developments and other
points of interest.
• Getting Hired: Qualifications the firm looks for in new associates, tips on
getting hired and other notable aspects of the hiring process.
• Our Survey Says: Actual quotes from surveys and interviews with current
consultants of the firm on topics such as the firm’s culture, feedback, hours,
travel requirements, pay, training and much more. Profiles of some firms
do not include an Our Survey Says section.
Best of the rest
In addition to profiles of the Top 50 firms, we’ve also included information
on a selection of consulting firms that did not make the list this year.
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How We Wrote This Book
Though the consulting industry is growing more complex all the time, we
have made every effort to make the Vault Guide as straightforward as
possible. Here’s what you need to know before proceeding.
What a difference a year makes
If you read the 2002 Vault Guide to the Top 50 Consulting Firms, you might
notice that this year’s edition features a different list of firms. Where did
firms from last year’s edition go, you ask? Some vanished altogether. For
example, Cambridge Technology Partners (No. 23 in prestige in 2001) and
iXL (No. 48) were gobbled up by other companies and no longer merit
mention as independent players. Others were hit very, very hard by the dot-
com implosion. This is especially true in the case of e-consultancies like
Scient (No. 28 last year), Razorfish (No. 29) and Viant (No. 42). But to be
fair, it wasn’t just the newbies who fell out of favor. Arthur D. Little, the
world’s oldest management consulting firm and No. 16 in the 2001 Top 50,
recently ended its 116-year run by going bankrupt and selling its assets piece
by piece.
ADL’s fate is a good indication of the state of the industry. A lot can change
in a year. Indeed, while the top few firms remain the same from last year, there
has been considerable movement throughout the rest of the prestige rankings.
The consultant’s dictionary
Consultants just love to use jargon. Not so Vault. We have done our best to
eliminate any references to “paradigms,” “thought leadership” or
“maximizing value propositions.” Nor will you read any word that has been
transmogrified into a different and improper part of speech. People do not
and should not “synergize” anything, and the word “impactful” does not even
appear in the Oxford English Dictionary. Most importantly, we have cut out
the thousands of mentions of the phrase “work hard/play hard” from
consultants’ descriptions of their firms’ corporate culture.
If you’re interested in brushing up on the latest consulting vocabulary, we

suggest you consult the Industry Buzzwords section at the end of this book.
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Quotes in this guide
The topic of quotes from our employee surveys and interviews brings up
another key point: The opinions expressed in this book do not necessarily
reflect those of every employee at a given firm. However, you can be
confident that what you read in the Vault Guide is the consensus view among
that firm’s consultants. We surveyed and interviewed a large number of
people — compiling copious amounts of statistical data on various quality-
of-life categories to assist us — to come up with the most accurate picture
possible of life at the Top 50.
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RANKING METHODOLOGY — CONSULTING TOP 50
The 2002 Consulting Survey is Vault’s most ambitious to date, with more
than 1,100 consultants rating the top 50 consulting firms around the world.
Our goal was threefold: gather informed feedback from consultants at top
firms, analyze the results using criteria relevant to job seekers, and condense
the results into an accurate, objective and useful career guide.
After creating an online survey addressing issues such as work hours,
compensation and diversity, to name just a few, we defined our targeted
survey population. Using knowledge obtained from prior Vault surveys,
conversations with consulting professionals, and new industry research we
compiled for 2002, we approached top consulting firms and asked them to
distribute the survey to their consultants. 1,107 consultants took Vault’s
survey, giving us a detailed, insider’s perspective on life at the industry’s most
prominent firms.

Additionally, we asked each respondent to rate the consulting firms on a scale
of 1 to 10 based on prestige. They also made brief comments on other firms,
sharing their perception of each firm from the outside. (These impressions are
represented in the book as The Buzz).
Vault collected all of the survey results and averaged the score for each firm.
For objectivity’s sake, consultants were not allowed to rank their own firms.
The firms were then ranked in order, starting with the highest average prestige
score to determine the Vault Top 50.
We understand that there are problems inherent in any prestige ranking.
However, we found that the rankings typically paralleled conventional
wisdom — with a few interesting exceptions. Remember that in the Top 50,
Vault is not ranking firms by profit, size, lifestyle or quality — we are ranking
the most prestigious consulting firms based on the perceptions of currently
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RANK FIRM
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McKinsey & Company
HEADQUARTERS
New York, NY8.654
2
The Boston Consulting Group

Boston, MA8.119
3
Bain & Company
Boston, MA7.563
4
Booz Allen Hamilton
McLean, VA6.747
5
Monitor
Cambridge, MA6.343
6
Mercer Management Consulting
New York, NY6.28
7
IBM Global Services
Somers, NY6.031
8
Deloitte Consulting
New York, NY5.936
9
Accenture
New York, NY5.932
10
Gartner
Stamford, CT5.766
11
A.T. Kearney
Plano, TX5.728
12
PwC Consulting*

New York, NY5.713
13
KPMG Consulting
McLean, VA5.446
14
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young
New York, NY5.394
15
Marakon Associates
New York, NY5.08
16
Hewitt Associates
Lincolnshire, IL4.772
17
Mercer Human Resources Consulting
New York, NY4.747
18
Towers Perrin
New York, NY4.741
19
Electronic Data Systems
Plano, TX4.687
20
The Parthenon Group
Boston, MA4.68
21
Roland Berger - Strategy Consultants
New York, NY4.655
22
L.E.K. Consulting

Boston, MA4.591
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DiamondCluster International
Chicago, IL4.459
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Computer Sciences Corporation
El Segundo, CA4.111
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Oliver, Wyman & Company
New York, NY4.1
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12
7
14
11
21
15
18
20
19

30
38
25
34
26
40
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[ The 50 most prestigious consulting firms ]
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RANK FIRM
26
Watson Wyatt Worldwide
HEADQUARTERS
Washington, DC4.066
27
Sapient Corporation
Cambridge, MA4.06
28
American Management Systems
Fairfax, VA3.992
29
Kurt Salmon Associates
Atlanta, GA3.981
30

Stern Stewart & Company
New York, NY3.905
31
Mars & Company
Greenwich, CT3.902
32
Hay Group
Philadelphia, PA3.839
33
Grant Thornton LLP
Chicago, IL3.818
34
Charles River Associates
Boston, MA3.747
35
ZS Associates
Evanston, IL3.698
36
Perot Systems
Plano, TX3.642
37
Dean & Company
Vienna, VA3.623
38
Andersen's Business Consulting Practice
Chicago, IL3.582
39
PRTM
Waltham, MA /
Mountain View, CA

3.535
40
PA Consulting
London UK3.518
41
Keane
Boston, MA3.493
42
First Manhattan Consulting Group
New York, NY3.421
43
Logica
London, UK3.413
44
The Corporate Executive Board
Washington, DC3.328
45
Swander Pace
San Francisco, CA3.143
46
Commerce One Global Services
Pleasanton, CA2.973
47
Aon
Chicago, IL2.816
48
Aquent
Boston, MA2.815
49
Value Partners

Milan, Italy2.7
50
Greenwich Associates
Greenwich, CT2.63
SCORE
27
22
41
37
24
39
31
36
45
NR
35
43
17
44
NR
NR
33
NR
NR
NR
46
49
NR
NR
NR

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Vault Guide to the Top 50 Consulting Firms
The Vault Prestige Rankings
Vault Guide to the Top 50 Consulting Firms
The Vault Prestige Rankings
PRESTIGE RANKINGS BY PRACTICE AREA
In addition to overall prestige, Vault also asked consultants to rank firms in
terms of the prestige of three general areas of business focus: strategy,
information technology and human resources. Consultants were allowed to
vote for up to three firms as the most prestigious in each practice area.
These charts indicate the rankings in each of the practice areas, as well as the
total percentage of votes cast in favor of each firm. (As long as at least one
consultant voted for more than one firm, no firm could garner 100 percent of
the votes; if every consultant had voted for three firms, the maximum a firm
could have received would be 33.3 percent.)
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30.68
McKinsey & Company
RANK
%

FIRM
2
23.84
The Boston Consulting Group
3
14.18
Bain & Company
4
8.25
Booz Allen Hamilton
5
3.32
A.T. Kearney
6
2.9
Accenture
7
2.87
Monitor Group
8
1.76
Deloitte Consulting
9
1.34
Mercer Management Consulting
10
1.18
KPMG Consulting
1
RANK

2002
2
3
4
6
5
7
8
7
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The Vault Prestige Rankings
1
29.73
Accenture
RANK
%
FIRM
2
18.42
IBM Global Services
3
9.00
Electronic Data Systems

4
6.72
PwC Consulting*
5
5.97
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young
6
5.16
Deloitte Consulting
7
2.94
KPMG Consulting
8
2.89
Computer Sciences Corporation
9
2.65
Sapient Corporation
10
2.56
American Management Systems
1
RANK
2002
2
6
3
4
5
7

9
11
10
IT Consulting
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The Vault Prestige Rankings
1
18.24
Towers Perrin
RANK
%
FIRM
2
17.16
Hewitt Associates
3
9.51
Hay Group
4
8.82
Watson Wyatt Worldwide
5
8.33
Mercer Human Resources Consulting
6

6.08
Mercer Management Consulting
7
3.43
Deloitte Consulting
8
3.33
Accenture
9
2.84
PwC Consulting*
10
2.06
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young
2
RANK
2002
1
5
4
3
7(tie)
7(tie)
8
6
10
Human Resources Consulting
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Get detailed breakdowns of Vault's 2003 prestige
rankings by school (undergraduate and business), location,

practice area and more with the 2003 Vault Consulting Firm
Survey Corporate Research Report. Go to
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