MBA Program

Management Consulting Club

Members of the Management Consulting Club are recognized at the November Town Hall.

The MIT Sloan Management Consulting Club (MCC) has taken its member services and activities to a new level, in a year when economic uncertainty is making it increasingly competitive for students to get the top management consulting jobs they seek.

MCC officers view the club as a service organization whose role is to help members learn about management consulting and to empower them for success in the demanding recruiting process. The officer team spent the spring and summer reinventing the club's core programs and designing new activities to broaden the club's impact. As the financial crisis worsened, the club quickly accelerated its efforts to accommodate increased demand for consulting preparation.

Here are just a few of the new initiatives undertaken by the MCC this semester:

• Launching the “Skills Camp Series” — a new program to help students learn about and practice the day-to-day skills of consulting. The Skills Camp Series brings seasoned consultants from top firms into the classroom in an interactive workshop environment.
• Creating new peer-driven learning opportunities, including a restructured pilot program to match first years with second year mentors, informal networking events to facilitate relationship and team building, a revamped “core curriculum” in interview preparation and a new “matching marketplace” for mock interviews.
• Creating alumni panels focused on smaller boutique consulting firms and life beyond consulting to orient new-comers to the fuller set of consulting opportunities available to MIT Sloan students.

These new initiatives were made possible by the efforts of the entire MCC officer team, along with a large number of dedicated club volunteers.