WSO loves to rank things but I've always wondered if and what the "most prestigious" firms are in other business lines (i.e Marketing, Supply Chains, Accounting, Analytics, Sales)
I imagine that accounting would be Big4 or BB banks and Supply Chain probably would be Maersk but what about the others?
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Advertising/Marketing would probably be WPP or Omnicom
Used to be that Leo Burnett in Chicago had advertising clients that were cream of Western civilization. Coca-cola, McDonalds, Marlboro, United airlines, Kelloggs, General Motors were some of their clients, I remember reading. Everyone in advertising wanted to work there. Their work was not super creative or cutting edge because the clients didn’t want that.
the firm is still around but no longer independent.
They do not exist in the same way at all IMO for things like supply chain, marketing, etc.
Top SCM Consultancies
https://supplychaindigital.com/top10/top-10-supply-chain-consultancies
I used to work in SCM consulting at one of these firms.
Can't speak for a lot of the business spaces but in tech you'd be shocked to know that FAANG isn't actually where people want to be. Most think that high growth post ipo is where its at, so most want to join startups like airbnb or earlier stage companies that you've likely never heard of
EBs are the “Goldman Sachs” of investment banking
Alvarez & Marsal for corporate restructuring
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