Bain Campus Workshop

It is not my first time to join Bain's campus event. Bain is the only consulting firm that I can tell its uniqueness: results rather than reports. For others like McKinsey or BCG, I can only end up with "excellent" or "top player". And during the workshop, Bain China CEO Larry well leveraged such uniqueness to deliver his speech "How consulting firms add value to clients". The speech was very informative for me. It provides a process map in the first. And then a solid example case was shown, with a lot of fancy charts that I really appreciate. I even can't help ask a question like "how can I develop the skills of visualizing data?", a very typical question in GE. The direct answer to the title of the speech was like

consulting firms bring fresh air to their clients, preventing biased results delivered due to stakeholder problems.

The mock case interview was not so helpful for me. I think if I was bold enough to take the showcase, I may win more this evening. Anyway, it was a good case. And I can tell that I was thinking in a totally different way. Larry showed his approach, which is data-based and in a revenue-cost comparison way. But my way was rather logically abstract and shortcutting. But I would rather to use more charts than to show more math work. Hope this doesn't break the rule. Met Erick and Tong today.