Best Consulting Firms to Work For
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Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is the second largest consulting firm by revenue and consistently ranks high in our top consulting firms. The firm’s diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise to organizations, helping them to grow, build sustainable competitive advantage, and drive positive societal impact. Purpose-driven, the firm strives to drive lasting impact for its employees, clients, and society. "You will be challenged... and rewarded," say insiders.
View ProfileSCORE 9.721
2024 Ranking
#5
ghSMART
Boards, CEOs and investors seek ghSMART’s advice for their most high-stake leadership challenges. And often, ghSMART’s clients see them as the most influential professional relationships they have. Those who aspire to be trusted advisors who have a background in management consulting, private equity, and organizational psychology should take a closer look at ghSMART.
View ProfileSCORE 9.576
2024 Ranking
#1
Putnam
Beyond Putnam's commitment and expertise to revolutionizing life sciences consulting is a determination to “bring out the best in each other.” Putnam’s commitment to development makes it a great choice for anybody looking to acquire practical knowledge of the industry by training alongside an enthusiastic team of like-minded professionals while delivering exceptional value to clients.
View ProfileSCORE 9.508
2024 Ranking
#6
SciVida
SciVida is a boutique management consulting firm that focuses exclusively on life sciences. Headquartered in Research Triangle Park, NC, the company combines deep industry and functional area knowledge with specialized expertise in market assessment, analytics, and strategy development to provide life science organizations services across brand and portfolio strategy, pricing and market access strategy, business development and medical affairs.
View ProfileSCORE 9.464
2024 Ranking
#10
Bain & Company
Arguably the most employee-focused of the Big 3 strategy players, Bain is a name that will open doors for the rest of your career. That’s if you’re interested in leaving, of course: The firm invests a lot of time and energy in training and development. Couple that with a glittering client roster and top-of-the-market compensation, and it’s easy to make a case for staying at Bain for the long term.
View ProfileSCORE 9.382
2024 Ranking
#2
Aminad Consulting
Aminad is a boutique management consulting firm dedicated to generating realistic and implementable change. The firm works with federal agencies, with a specific focus on the Department of Defense. Aminad (pronounced ah-min-odd) is a portmanteau that that firm says “represents determination, generosity, and kindness.”
View ProfileSCORE 9.200
2024 Ranking
#4
Stax
Stax is a global strategy consulting firm specializing in commercial due diligence, value creation, and exit planning for private equity firms, PE-backed companies, hedge funds, and investment banks across a broad range of industries. The firm partners with clients to provide data-driven, actionable insights designed to drive growth, enhance profits, increase value, and make better investment decisions.
View ProfileSCORE 9.038
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked
DayBlink Consulting
DayBlink Consulting provides cybersecurity, cloud, applied automation, and strategic execution and operations consulting to Fortune 500 companies, fast-start advisory services to early-stage startups, and pro bono consulting to nonprofits. The firm's diverse team of consultants provide insights and resources to help business leaders overcome challenges, attain quick wins, and produce sustainable growth. The firm offers competitive salary and benefits, along with a commitment to maintaining a healthy work-life balance that insiders note it follows through on.
View ProfileSCORE 9.000
2024 Ranking
#7
OC&C Strategy Consultants
OC&C Strategy Consultants is an international consulting firm that advises the senior management of major multinational corporations and leading national companies. OC&C clients include private equity firms, infrastructure funds, growth capital firms, family offices, and corporate acquirers. The firm works with these organizations through acquisitions, portfolio supports, and exits.
View ProfileSCORE 9.000
2024 Ranking
#3
Arthur D. Little
It may boast the oldest name in consulting, but Arthur D. Little is a firm that feels fresh and vital, with a growing footprint in every major global market. While its work product and client list rival the biggest consulting shops, ADL’s focus on retaining and developing employees for long-term careers sets it apart as an employer and seems set to equip it for success in the years ahead.
View ProfileSCORE 8.897
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked
Cornerstone Research
Cornerstone Research occupies a specialized niche in the consulting world: a firm that provides economic and financial analysis specifically for law firm clients and government agencies. As a Cornerstone Research consultant, you will support expert testimony in commercial litigation and regulatory proceedings. The wide variety of these matters allows consultants to work closely with academic and industry experts in diverse fields. Working at the intersection of the legal and consulting worlds makes Cornerstone Research an exciting, enriching opportunity.
View ProfileSCORE 8.832
2024 Ranking
#17
Roland Berger
As the first consultancy native to Europe to expand internationally, Roland Berger’s identity is deeply entwined with the concept of global community. The firm operates on the idea that businesses must focus on the long play: sustainable economic, environmental, and social change on a global scale instead. Jobseekers who lead with heart and future-forward priorities should seek out a firm working actively to bring meaning to the consulting industry.
View ProfileSCORE 8.795
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked
Kaiser Associates
Kaiser Associates is a global growth consulting firm that translates original insights into strategy for ambitious organizations around the world. Since its founding in 1981, the firm has grown substantially while continuing to stay true to its founding ethos of “fact-based” strategy. The firm’s global client portfolio, collegial community, and wide-ranging opportunities make Kaiser Associates a great place to work.
View ProfileSCORE 8.788
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked
Clarkston Consulting
Clarkston Consulting has focused on the consumer products, retail, and life sciences industries for over 30 years. Reflecting this targeted approach, the firm has never pursued aggressive expansion, instead applying energy to the careful cultivation of its client base.
View ProfileSCORE 8.764
2024 Ranking
#14
Kepler Cannon
Kepler Cannon is a boutique management consulting firm that helps financial institutions adapt to market disruptions, including rapidly changing digital technologies, heightened fintech competition, and emerging market opportunities. Established in 2013, it offers an entrepreneurial environment with diverse project exposure and global clients, from London to Hong Kong and everywhere in between.
View ProfileSCORE 8.643
2024 Ranking
#15
Epsilon Economics and Epsilon Life Sciences
Epsilon Economics and Life Sciences provides specialist economics, litigation and governance services, with a strong focus on the life sciences sector. The firm currently operates two separate but connected consulting units in economics and life sciences.
View ProfileSCORE 8.636
2024 Ranking
#9
Kearney
Kearney—one of the original global management consulting firms—has long specialized in operations and supports clients through large transformations. The firm works with more than three-quarters of the Fortune Global 500, as well as governmental and nonprofit organizations. A solidly midsize firm with a strong international reputation, Kearney is poised to offer consultants the best of both worlds: the flexibility and opportunities for exposure of a boutique supported by the infrastructure of a much larger firm. The result is a great balance of collaboration and independence—the benefits of scale with the ability to individualize.
View ProfileSCORE 8.600
2024 Ranking
#18
LifeSci Consulting, LLC
LifeSci Consulting provides global strategy, operations and transactions advisory services to clients in the life sciences sector. Headquartered in New York, the firm has supported more than 250 client organizations around the globe, with a total deal value in excess of $8 billion.
View ProfileSCORE 8.590
2024 Ranking
#11
Avasant LLC
Avasant is a management consulting firm offering a comprehensive suite of services—including digital transformation, IT price benchmarking, intelligent automation, cutting-edge research and data insights, and governance and strategy. Headquartered in Los Angeles, Avasant maintains a global presence with offices in Washington, DC; Trinidad and Tobago; Mexico; Spain; Europe; Dubai; and India.
View ProfileSCORE 8.579
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked
Kx Advisors
Kx Advisors is a boutique healthcare strategy consultancy. Growing out of Kaiser Associates’ healthcare practice, the firm was spun off in 2019, then acquired by BGB Group in September 2023. The firm brings data-driven analysis at all stages of the product lifecycle to inform the decision making of marketing, strategy, medical and sales executives. Clients include leaders in pharma, biotech, and medical devices.
View ProfileSCORE 8.563
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked
Alvarez & Marsal
A&M provides global leadership, problem-solving, and value creation for companies across industries and around the world. The firm’s consultants work as advisers, interim leaders, and partners who tell clients what they need to know, not always what they want to hear. The firm is focused on practical, action-oriented advice for its clients, rather than theoretical.
View ProfileSCORE 8.557
2024 Ranking
#13
Level5 Strategy
Level5 Strategy is a boutique management consulting firm. Since its inception in 2002, it has built a strong reputation in Canada's management consulting industry, and has worked over 450 clients across B2B, B2C, government, and not-for-profit sectors in Canada, U.S., and other parts of the globe, helping many grow their businesses and thrive in their chosen markets.
View ProfileSCORE 8.548
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked
Bates White Economic Consulting
With a strong reputation in economic and litigation consulting, Bates White is almost immune from the vagaries of the business cycle—a fact that has stood it in good stead over the past few years. Among consultants, the word most often used to describe the firm is “academic”—something that connotes both the type of work it does, and the fact that many of its senior employees are recruited directly out of PhD programs at top colleges. Known for training and development, this is a firm that will appeal to anyone seeking a top-tier economic consulting career.
View ProfileSCORE 8.528
2024 Ranking
#21
NERA Economic Consulting
NERA provides economic advice, analysis, expert testimony, and regulatory insight for global clients in North America, Latin America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific. The firm has been advising government authorities and the world’s leading law firms and corporations for over half a century, bringing academic analysis and rigor, objectivity, and real-world industry experience to bear on issues arising from competition, regulation, public policy, strategy, finance, and litigation.
View ProfileSCORE 8.500
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked
DeciBio Consulting, LLC
An agile life sciences consultancy that is far into its growth stage, DeciBio offers employees the excitement and hands-on learning opportunities of a startup environment merged with the deep content knowledge and professional development opportunities of a larger consulting firm. The entrepreneurial spirit of the firm bodes well for candidates who are self-directed, self-motivated, and intellectually curious.
View ProfileSCORE 8.462
2024 Ranking
#23
