The Unique Boutique

When Rudolph Giuliani was asked whether it would be correct to describe his newly minted consulting firm as a “strategy boutique,” the former mayor first hesitated and then remarked: “I think of a boutique as a place where you buy clothes.”es.” But many thousands of consultants currently are building their careers inside small but largely specialized boutique firms, such as this group of pint-size consultancies that are in a class by themselves.

Chris Nesi | May 07, 2003

By Patricia Brown

For years, a management consultant's path was clear: Go to MBA school, join a prestigious consulting firm and work … travel … work … travel … work … travel … all the way to the top. The pace never eases. On the contrary, it picks up as new consultants become project managers who aspire to become partners and rainmakers.

The long hours are more than a badge of honor. They heat the furnace in which elite consultants are forged. It is the way it's been, is, and always will be. Or is it?

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