Once famous for its ties to business schools, McKinsey is casting a wider net to meet its needs.
For decades, an MBA was one of the clearest routes into elite consulting. As AI changes the work firms do for clients, the consulting industry is looking for people who can build technology as well as devise the corporate strategy around it.
“Our recruiting changed dramatically in the last few years. We recruit from places we haven’t recruited before,” Ben Ellencweig, who leads McKinsey’s AI arm, QuantumBlack, told Business Insider. “Today many, many of our colleagues are coming from non-MBA backgrounds, and then technology too is kind of the next…
