Advisory Board layoffs
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Anonymous
| 220 employees. Ouch. Is this what we should expect in DC for the next four years? |
Anonymous
| Is this due to CEB being bought out by Gartner? |
Anonymous
No, ABC and CEB have been 2 separately publically traded companies for 18 years |
Anonymous
| i still don't know what abc and ceb do....like is it a budget MBB shop? |
Anonymous
pretty much. |
Anonymous
Is it really? I always thought the work product wasn't pragmatic business solutions but rather white papers, reports, and the like. Clients pay MBB to make immediate change - not write a paper on it and present at a conference. |
Anonymous
this., plus those salespeople are persistent AF. practically had to change my phone number |
Anonymous
| i always wondered how they make money. |
Anonymous
McK and BCG do tons of white papers as well - I notice their white papers in places like HBR and other publications more often than ABC's. |
Anonymous
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WHAT ARE THESE ACRONYMS???
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Anonymous
ABC = Advisory Board Company CEB = Corporate Executive Board, Inc. McK = McKinsey BCG = BCG MBB = McKinsey, BCG, Bain |
Anonymous
Not the PP but THANK YOU. I never would have guessed MBB in a million years. |
Anonymous
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*BCG = Boston Consulting Group.
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Anonymous
| HBR = Harvard Business Review |
Anonymous
Not at all. ABC and CEB sell subscription services to their industry reporting, insights, etc. They don't do strategy engagements like MBB. Model is wholly different. |