A CSMG Testimonial

Laurence A. Wong

Analyst (2/04-12/04), Sr. Analyst (12/04-6/06), Consultant (6/06-2/07)

Coming directly out of MIT's undergraduate business program, I was searching for the best opportunity to rapidly shore up my academic understanding with real world experience across a broad base of business issues, while simultaneously developing high-value, highly-applicable business skills.

My three years at CSMG placed me in an ideal position to achieve each and every one of those goals and was definitely time well spent. From my perspective, there are three key distinguishing characteristics that separate CSMG from other opportunities.

Management Consulting:
As a strategic management consultancy, CSMG exposed me to a very broad range of real-world, unresolved business issues - affording me the opportunity to develop a robust, end-to-end perspective of "business" from concept to innovation to product development, to marketing and sales.

In addition, the high standard of quality placed on work products at a boutique consultancy like CSMG fosters an environment favoring rigorous and robust analytics in addition to an eye for detail, aesthetics and optimality. This in turn results in CSMG team members developing skills of quantitative and qualitative analytics, Excel modeling, strategic thinking and presentation writing of a very, very high quality. These skills will be invaluable in any position at any company in my future.

Focus:
As an analyst at a consultancy focused on the telecommunications, high-tech and media space, I lived and breathed in one of the most dynamic, innovative, and high-value market sectors. This sector is characterized by intense competition, rapidly changing consumer demands and significant levels of regulation that undoubtedly punctuated and deepened my experiences while keeping me interested and engaged.

Size:
From my perspective, CSMG was the perfect size firm in which to start my career. It is large enough to embody a diversity of perspective and backgrounds from which to learn but small enough to ensure open-door access to the highest levels of the company, ever-increasing responsibilities and upward advancement as soon as you are ready.