Where McKinsey—and Consulting—Go From Here

Turn breakthrough ideas into real results at the virtual HBR Innovation Summit this November with top CEOs and masterclasses on AI and growth. Register by September 30th and save 25%. Learn more at hbr.org slash innovation summit. I'm Adi Ignatius. I'm Alison Beard and this is the HBR Idea cast.

All right, Allison, this question's gonna seem random, but I promise you it's not. What was your major in college? I was a double major in journalism and politics at Washington and Lee University. Okay, I was history at Haverford, another liberal arts college. If you're like me, you probably figured that your majors equipped you well for something like journalism, but maybe not so well for something like management consulting, which has tended to recruit people who study economics or engineering, you know, or business.

Yeah, I always thought of consulting and finance as a place where sort of all the most Ambitious, highest achievers, most capitalistic students who wanted to go. And those firms definitely focused on the Ivy League and the big universities. The world is changing. We know that.

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