Below are some useful reading lists, websites, and news sources for anyone with an interest in consulting:

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Major Strategy Consulting Publications

• Bain Insights

• BCG Perspective

• PWC Strategy & Publications

• Deloitte University Press

• McKinsey Quarterly

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Business News 

• Bloomberg

• Business Insider

• DealBook

• The Economist

• Forbes

• Harvard Business Review

• Planet Money (NPR)

• The Wall Street Journal

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Consulting Websites

• Case Interview

• Management Consulted

• Consulting Magazine (Trade Publication)

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Great Reads

• Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by James C. Collins, Jerry I. Porras

• Case in Point by Mark Cosentino* [Case Interviewing]

• Case Secrets by Victor Cheng* [Case Interviewing]

• Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance by Michael E. Porter

• Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors by Michael E. Porter

• Financial Statements: A Step-by-Step Guide to Understanding and Creating Financial Reports by Thomas R. Ittelson 

• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen

• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t by James Collins

• HBR’S 10 Must Reads: The Essentials by Harvard Business Review

• How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

• In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies by Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman An

• Introduction to General Systems Thinking by Gerald Weinberg

• Introduction to Mathematical Thinking by Keith Devlin

• The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by John C. Bogle

• The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business by Josh Kaufman

• Principles of Corporate Finance by Richard A. Brearley

• The Pyramid Principle by Barbara Minto

• Secrets of Mental Math by Arthur Benjamin and Michael Shermer

• The Six Sigma Way by Peter S. Pande et al, Robert P. Neuman, Roland R. Cavanagh

• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell

• Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies by Tim Koller, Marc Goedhart and David Wessels

• What Every BODY is Saying by Joe Navarro

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Podcasts

• APM Marketplace

• BCG Perspectives

• Freakonomics Radio

• HBR IdeaCast

• McKinsey Global Institute

• Motley Fool Money

• NPR Topics: Economy

• NPR Topics: Technology

• NPR: Intelligence Squared

• NPR: Planet Money

• NPR: TED Radio Hour

• Wall Street Journal This Morning

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Apps

• Case Maestro

• Mathemagics

• MathGym

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Free Online Courses

• Code Academy (computer coding)

• Coursera

• Khan Academy

• Lynda.com (software training – free subscription through your UW Student ID Login)

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