Crewe found that employees were open and communicative with the student consultants.
This year the school will have 144 teams of student consultants in the field.
Yet the big B-schools hardly lack for brand power — think Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, IMD, INSEAD, London Business — and their competitiveness is helped by the fact that it costs a lot less to hire student consultants from an A-list B-school than it does to sign up even a C-list management consultancy.
The subjects' age, sex, dominant hand, years of medical training (student-consultant), experience with a surgical microscope, and participation in extracurricular activities involving use of a hand switch (e.g., computer gaming/playing a musical instrument) were recorded.
JR: MD, PhD student and consultant in infectious diseases with clinical interest in hantavirus infection and patient care.
Given the level of savvy among students and consultants, however, there are dangers in any move.
When worried students and consultants do finally gain (or regain) their sought-after jobs, they might come up with innovative ways for companies to scale back without resorting to layoffs, furloughs, or deferrals.
Bailey, television personality, comedy superstar, the man with enough edge to make massive popularity feel like a cult following, the man who appeals to students, management consultants, New Agers, and, judging by the televised guffaws from the royal box, princes.
Peter Thorpe, Citibank's vice president of university relations, says he would pick students over consultants almost anytime: "It's a no- brainer".
Still in its early days, the so-called doctorants-conseil program attempts to place Ph.D. students as consultants in companies for which their skills can be utilized.
