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Bob Sternfels is reshaping McKinsey as consulting firm heads into its second century
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The son of a US Navy aviator who spent his toddler years at Subic Bay in the Philippines during the Vietnam War era, Mr Bob Sternfels knows something about resilience.
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The first time I met Bob Sternfels, shortly after he’d been elected global managing partner (GMP) of McKinsey, we talked about widening the talent intake from the traditional ponds from which you’d expect consultants to emerge – the great MBA factories of the world such as Stanford Graduate School of Business, Wharton, Harvard Business School and so forth.
Most recently, when we talked, the Stanford alumnus had travelled further along the road. MBA intakes, he told me, were perhaps no more than 17 per cent of the last intake at McKinsey. The others were drawn from a variety of other disciplines.
