Challenges and opportunities in management consulting - an interactive business simulation

The Goettingen Graduate School of Social Sciences offers the opportunity for PhD-Students of the Faculty of Economic Sciences to participate at an extraordinary workshop in cooperation with GGNB. If you are interested, please send your application with CV to ggnb@gwdg.de as mentioned at the bottom of this mail.

Title: Challenges and opportunities in management consulting - an interactive business simulation

Participants: 24
Duration: 1 day (9:00 - 18:00)
Location: tbd
Date: 27.09.2012

Did you always want to lead a global business to success?

In an interactive workshop you will have the opportunity to gain insights into up-to-date top management issues. Working in small teams, you will seek to build up a strategic advantage over other teams in a hard fought market.

Your team and you will take a number of strategic and operational decisions to improve the success of your enterprise. You will develop new products, make crucial investments, evaluate expansions while maintaining a healthy cash-flow and set up a pricing strategy to ensure sustainable success of your enterprise.

A business simulation will allow you to directly experience the impact and consequences of your decisions and learn how to combine scientific thinking with business judgment. In addition there will be ample time for discussions with A.T. Kearney consultants to give you an authentic impression of the company, and of work in management consulting in general.

A.T. Kearney is a leading global management consultancy firm that uses strategic insight, tailored solutions and a collaborative working style to help clients achieve sustainable results. With a broad range of capabilities and expertise in all major industries, its service offerings range across the spectrum from strategy through implementation. A.T. Kearney was founded in Chicago in 1926 and opened its first overseas office in Düsseldorf in 1964. Today, A.T. Kearney has 2.700 employees that are based in 55 offices located in major business centers in 38 countries around the globe. A.T. Kearney is committed to sustainability and is carbon neutral across its global operations.

If you are excited to take on this challenge, please submit your CV including grades to the GGNB Office (ggnb@gwdg.de) by 20.August 2012 at the latest. The GGNB Office will forward the CV to Dr. Ben Frank (A.T. Kearney) who will chose the participants.