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How I Left Boston Consulting
I left Boston consulting. I took a job as a dean at one of the graduate schools at Harvard and I did that for a few years. And Bainen Company was up and coming. I joined them in Boston and worked for three years in Boston before they asked me if I would move to London where we had only 30 people and lead a big study. We were somewhat misled about how many people in our clients spoke English. So since we were getting data out of computer systems, we had to talk to the IT people. They went from 30 to 300 in a very short period of time. But I really wanted to be a consultant. That's not very funny to consulting.
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