![]() The ranking was started in 2007 by Vault Career Intelligence. In the cases of Prestige and Practice, respondents may not score their own firms. Beyond that, they rate competitors in over a dozen practice areas, ranging from Energy to Strategy Consulting. ![]() From there, these survey-takers turn around and grade rival firms on their Prestige. They include areas like Pay and Benefits, Outlook and Leadership, Health and Work-Life Balance, and Training and Promotion Opportunities. Here, survey respondents - North American consultants at over 130 firms - assess their employers on 20 measures. First, the Vault Consulting 50 is treated as the “gold standard” for evaluating consulting firms. How does that happen? It helps to look at the methodology. In the end, you could say the MBB - or BMB - stuck together at the top of the Vault Consulting 50, while 26 firms are clustered within a point of each other below. ![]() And Clearview Partners, once a darling to its employees, tumbled 10 spots to 17th. Their advances came at the expense of Deloitte Consulting, which has plunged from 11th to 4th in just two years. At the same time, the Bridgespan Group vaulted (pun) eight spots into the Top 5 - a feat nearly matched by Kearney. Lost amid this tight margin is the Boston Consulting Group, which slipped a spot to 3rd despite across-the-board improvements. Despite closing the gap, McKinsey fell just short, a result that could’ve easily been altered by a few tweaks to its scores (or Vault’s methodology). The firm’s scores improved in nearly measure - and even eclipsed Bain in several categories. It remains the envy of the industry - by a wider margin than ever according to survey respondents. Worse, every well-wisher encourages you to “build on the positives.” For McKinsey, the Vault Consulting 50 represents a bevy of positives. Finish second? Your mind endlessly loops those tiny mistakes. They are treated as standard bearers who personify the values and traditions of their profession. In the end, all that separated Big Red from True Blue was a thousandth of a point. ![]() Call in every cliché: Margins are slim and you lose by inches. And yet it was all that separated Bain and McKinsey in this year’s Vault Consulting 50. ![]()
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