Word: evening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...travel per week still doesn't seem normal, they argue that they "don't work on weekends" as do many consultants and most investment bankers. "Wherever you go from a place like Harvard, you are going to work very hard because you are going to be among the best--even if you don't travel, you are going to work very long hours," Tom says. I get the sense, as I do many times throughout my time with the PRTM team, that I am being recruited...
...presented to the client. During the next two hours, Wang's job begins to look a lot like those of her friends in investment banking which she describes as a low-level information gathering exercise that consists of "sitting in front of a spreadsheet for 12 hours a day." Even with the daily doses of what could very well be called scut work, Wang feels that she is still able to "see the whole picture," that is, relate her number-crunching to the overall progress of the project...
...afternoon picks up for Wang when she and Mike hold a meeting with their main "contact" in the client's product engineering department. This meeting gives me a view of the working relationship between client and consultant that I haven't had all day. Even though some important issues are being discussed, the atmosphere is very informal and relaxed; the client contact seems to trust Mike and Wang to be on his team. The meeting wanders from a demonstration of a nifty PowerPoint presentation tool (a hallmark of consulting) to a discussion of engineering challenges (in which both Wang...
...talk about FM's identity got us thinking. Mid-pow-wow in Aaron's room, we broke out three-and-a-half years worth of vintage FMs. We were humbled. Each year has its own identity and from year-to-year, the magazine has not always been consistent. Nothing even looked the same--so where...
...Realizing that the magazine will change makes it hard to hand it over, even to a crew of extremely talented and energetic people. What will they do with...