Industry Trends
What's actually moving in healthcare, tech, financial services, and energy — and how it shows up in real cases.
The State of Consulting in 2026: AI Delivery, Flat Entry Pay, and What Candidates Should Care About
Six things are shifting at once inside the consulting industry. Most of them are being talked about loudly. A few are being talked about quietly. Candidates who only track the loud ones are missing the more important story.
What AI Case Interviewers Can — and Can't — Evaluate
Several AI case-prep tools have launched in 2026. Some are genuinely useful. Some are thin wrappers. The difference is what they can score honestly and what they have to hand-wave through.
AI in Consulting: How It's Changing the Cases You'll Face
AI prompts have started showing up in case interviews at MBB and tier-2 firms. Not as a gimmick — as a way to test whether candidates can reason about a topic the firms are betting their next decade on.
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