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After two years with the firm, AlphaSights’ client service and specialist function associates across our Europe, Americas, and Asia regions have the opportunity to apply for Manager. Associates have six months to prepare their application before i...

Growing up in a technology-focused generation, I’ve always enjoyed learning and imagining how technology would improve our everyday lives. As a kid, I loved to take electronics apart to learn how the internals functioned, understand design element...

"...The editorialists reported relationships with Deepmind Technologies, GLG, AlphaSights, Guidepoint, Alcon, Santen, Allergan, Laser Precision Ltd, and Novartis." View article.

Even after many years, AlphaSights employees are still excited to be involved in iMentor. Why? Because our people see the value in mentorship and knowledge that can be passed from person to person — in essence, that’s AlphaSights’ business model. ...

Maybe it’s the eggnog or being in the city at Christmastime, but here at AlphaSights — we’re feeling festive. The holiday spirit has drifted not only in the air but into our daily work. So naturally, we had fun imagining how a little help from exp...

AlphaSights CTO Heath Hohwald is known for many things. He exhibits strong leadership on our software engineering team and has work experience at Amazon, Google, and Shutterstock. But what most people don’t know — largely because he keeps it und...

I’m not a designer, but I consider myself a problem solver and in order to solve problems I always feel the need to gather as much knowledge as possible around my area of expertise. So I decided to go to a design conference this year and expand ...

Last month, I was lucky enough to attend a +Acumen workshop (in collaboration with frog Design) to learn about design thinking, and was inspired to bring these concepts back to the Software Engineering team at AlphaSights. Acumen is an impact inve...

When your business is built around unlocking knowledge that can only be accessed via direct interactions, communication is key. Therefore, our Communications Engineering team is tasked with building a first-class communication platform to facilita...

The associates who form the core of our Client Service team perform AlphaSights’ magic day in, day out. Those clever, ambitious professionals have an exciting job; they engage in deep research on the most improbable topics, forge relationships wit...

  The Client Protection (CP) team at AlphaSights is here to do just what its name entails: protect our clients. They ensure that clients use our services and access the knowledge they need safely. Therefore, it’s important that our CP team is a...

AlphaSights began its journey 10 years ago, leveraging human capital (i.e. smart people) to build the business that would later become a premier knowledge search provider. We trained our employees to listen to our clients, understand and dig into ...

Employee engagement is often overlooked or seen as the “final step” that companies think about after they’ve met key business objectives. In the context of communication and marketing, most firms initially prioritize a brand strategy that will app...

“How are you getting to the Voice of the Customer?” It’s a question that has come up time and again in AlphaSights’ Strategy & Innovation Leaders breakfast series. As we closed on our fifth series, it was still one of the biggest questions ...

In 2014, I joined AlphaSights right out of college as a client service associate, a demanding yet rewarding role. My job was to understand my clients’ unique needs and knowledge gaps, and then identify experts with highly-specific knowledge to fil...

3 learnings from Natanya Meyer at Global Goals Week: developing countries are open-minded, choose cutting-edge wireless technology, and are leapfrogging high-income nations with outdated infrastructure. Biggest “con” of the UNGA? No cell servic...

We live in a world where data is at our fingertips. Technology allows us to search practically anything, but the sheer amount of information available makes it difficult to discern what’s important and what’s not. For businesses, finding the right...

When I first joined AlphaSights in 2013 as a Client Service Associate, our primary users were investors and consultants. Over the years, I’ve been fortunate to witness the expansion of our knowledge search model to reach new and unique clients typ...

A few weeks ago, we hosted our first Strategy Leaders’ Breakfast in Boston where 15 senior strategy executives from the F500 in corporate strategy and internal consulting roles networked and shared the challenges their teams face across industries...

We convened 45+ strategy leaders for breakfast across the country representing Fortune 500 companies in Boston, New York, San Francisco, and Silicon Valley. Several themes emerged from these conversations including organizational alignment, team...

The economic problem in society is “the utilization of knowledge, which is not given to anyone in its totality.” Those were the famous words of Philosopher Friedrich Hayek in his 1945 essay “The Use of Knowledge in Society.” His position was contr...

Now a manager on AlphaSights’ fast-growing Finance team in London, Merel Peters had a rather unique path to her current role. After her internship on our Client Service team (CST), she sat down with Co-founder, Andrew Heath, to figure out her next...

Knowledge for Good in Q4 2018 AlphaSights’ social impact partners approached us with some challenging questions– and we answered. Here’s how impact investors, nonprofit consultancies, and social enterprises leveraged knowledge-search to tackle ...

Application support is crucial in ensuring that our Client Service team has the technology and support to deliver value to our clients everyday. We sat down with App Support engineers, Haris and Justin, to learn more about the growing team. Can...

5 ways AlphaSights has changed how marketing and advertising agencies access primary insights   AlphaSights recently hosted a happy hour for creative leaders in marketing and advertising in the New York City area to talk about how they utili...

How many times in our academic careers have we been called “Future Leaders”? Every Business School, Social Sciences Department or Graduate Programme likes to market themselves as being best in class at developing the next generation of business an...

I joined AlphaSights in September 2017 as an Associate in our Hamburg office. I’m originally from Munich, Germany, and after I received my Masters in Management having studied in Lisbon, Portugal and Sao Paulo, Brazil, I knew I ultimately wanted t...

  Recent graduate and Client Protection associate, Brittany Spinelli, discusses her application process and path to AlphaSights The Application Process When my parents asked what priorities I had in mind when I envisioned my career, I fel...

Everyone at AlphaSights has the opportunity to volunteer for Knowledge for Good (KFG), our social impact business unit. We partner directly with impact investors, social entrepreneurs, or nonprofit consultants, providing our knowledge-search servi...

This month we sat down with New York’s Izzy Spada to chat about her dynamic role at AlphaSights and how the two blend together. Read on for insights on her life as a second-year Demand Gen Associate and as President of the company’s global Women’s...

Last week, my team and I participated in a valuable professional development exercise. We each took the Strengthsfinder test to better understand our individual and team strengths followed by a team exercise led by Lauren Lipsky, Manager of Career...

On May 10th 2018, I represented AlphaSights and our Social Impact Business Unit at the Financial Times (FT) Investing for Good Asia Conference, which brought together diverse delegates to discuss the changing social impact landscape in Asia, with ...

Celebrating our tenth anniversary in the knowledge industry Since 2008, AlphaSights has grown from a team of two — our Co-Founders Max Cartellieri and Andrew Heath — to a team of over 450, with colleagues originating from New York to Shangh...

I’ve often heard the phrase, “Perspective is everything.” As a rising pre-law senior entering the last summer before graduation, I thought about this as I explored internship opportunities to help plan my career path after college. I had previo...

I remember when I was in college interviewing for jobs, I never knew what questions to ask at the end of interviews. I thought a lot about what to ask, because I wanted to ask questions that were not just good but also smart. As a part of the recr...

Last month, I was lucky enough to represent AlphaSights’s social impact business unit at the second annual Financial Times’ Investing for Good conference in Hong Kong. With this year’s focus on 'new opportunities for regional transformation', ...

In April, I represented AlphaSights at the 2019 Skoll World Forum, through an event co-hosted by our social impact partner Acumen, and Business Fights Poverty. During this packed day of interesting lectures, breakout sessions, and networking oppor...

Not-for-profit organisations tackle some of the world’s toughest issues, from access to education and healthcare, to poverty and human rights. The AlphaSights Knowledge For Good initiative (KFG) aims at leveraging AlphaSights’ core capabilities - ...

At the end of the school year, I watched proudly as my class of 5-year-olds marched out of the door for the last time. They were small in size, but enormous in personality. Fast forward two weeks, and I found myself beginning an internship at A...

Platform businesses have been in existence for hundreds of years, from the agora in Athens to the Uber that's coming to pick you up in four minutes. By "platform", I am referring to any business that creates value by connecting a producer and a co...

As a firm, we promote AlphaSights as a platform upon which ambitious young professionals can launch their careers. As I prepare to take my next step following 3.5 years at the company, working across both our Consulting and Capital Markets segment...

Coming from Belgium, I moved to London two years ago to read a Masters of Law at the London School of Economics. At the end of my year at LSE, I started to think about my first career step. Having studied Law for several years, the classic career ...

I joined AlphaSights four and a half years ago, when we were a significantly smaller team with far fewer offices but growing extremely quickly. We were all commercially focused and our primary goal was to provide an outstanding, quality-focused se...

Diversity In People As a second generation Hong Konger, raised in Australia, you’d think that it would be hard to beat the diversity that I was exposed to in ‘the lucky country’ renowned for multiculturalism and social diversity. Wrong. When I ...

Cold sweat turning fear into panic, terrifying thoughts arising about your future, and all your work for nothing—a heart-wrenching truth indicated by a red mark on your test or paper reading “B+.” Secluded from society, school tends to condition s...

During the course of my first 18 months at AlphaSights in the Hong Kong office I’ve been involved in a plethora of stimulating projects covering industries as diverse as semiconductor fabrication plants to predictive policing software (not as omin...

Because the world of on-demand professional knowledge is young and often behind the scenes in today’s business world, one doesn’t go through life preparing to be a part of it. As such, the path to AlphaSights is often unique and paved with lessons...

On August 10, 2010, a bright-eyed, blonde-haired 22-year old from suburban America began a 38-hour voyage from Seattle, Washington to Ndejje, Uganda to change the world. It was her first trip outside of North America, and she was filled with all o...

My primary goal after college was to enter a working environment where I would continue to learn something new every day. Like many international students, I embody this quintessentially millennial trait to a heightened degree – many of us are tru...

Connect+ Event Cologne/Köln It was early summer 2014, the day after the most intense storm of the year. I had been selected to participate in AlphaSights’ Connect event in Cologne and was determined to make an impression on the team – I knew I ...

At AlphaSights, we have unique range of clients, from Corporate Strategists to Fund Managers. My team is part of the Capital Markets (CAP) segment in London and we work specifically alongside hedge fund and credit fund clients. What marks out hedg...

In my previous post, I wrote about my unconventional journey from a teenage entrepreneur to a college student to helping start the AlphaSights New York office. What I left out was why I chose to join AlphaSights over the other companies I was inte...

It’s been six years since AlphaSights began providing our services to top business leaders. Each holiday season since then, we’ve reflected on the year that passed and are always amazed by all that has changed. 2014 at AlphaSights followed suit...

In my sparsely decorated New York apartment, there's a large world map framed on the wall above my bed. Across this map, there are a number of black, red, and white-colored push pins in sporadic locations. Black pins symbolize the places I've been...

When I told my friends and family I was leaving Apple, the reactions were everything you’d expect. Some questioned my sanity; others were simply stunned that I would leave my dream company after only 18 months. I’m an unabashed Apple geek - in fac...

"The love of knowledge is a kind of madness." C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet In my opinion, there are two things required to create and sustain a strong and healthy work environment that (unfortunately) aren’t always a given: relentle...

One of the most interesting things about working at AlphaSights is the opportunity to speak with senior people from many industries all over the world, who work with AlphaSights as Expert Advisors. But that doesn’t mean it’s always catching up wit...

I joined AlphaSights in May 2014 after three years in Fixed Income at a large British Investment Bank in London. Having graduated with a MSc in Finance from HEC Paris and a BSc in Maths & Economics, plus two internships in banking (M&A and...

At AlphaSights, our core business is in knowledge. We equip our clients with the most relevant on-the-ground expertise, closing their knowledge gaps and informing the critical business decisions they make. As knowledge flows increasingly quickly a...

Andy Cipolaro, the Head of Technical Talent at AlphaSights, spoke to Flatiron School about the special combination of past work experience and programming abilities that AlphaSights looks for when hiring junior developers. Check out the intervie...

When I graduated from Vanderbilt in May 2013, I took a job in Finance. It was a job I had basically signed on the dotted line for two years before when I was just 20 years old and received an internship offer at that company. The summer internship...

 I’ve always been interested in and impressed by working with Acumen, one of Knowledge for Good’s biggest partners. So I was extremely excited when Adam Thurland, a Shanghai-based branding consultant, reached out about starting a community in Shan...

Let’s face it. The job market is tough for today’s college seniors. Since the 2008 economic downturn, job growth for millennials has been flat or down, and the average young graduate holds debt hovering somewhere around $30,000 in the US and £44,0...

Like any great start-up, our story starts at Stanford Business School in California. Well, that’s at least where our two co-founders, Max Cartellieri and Andrew Heath, met while playing beer pong and getting their MBAs in the late 90s. Both develo...

Kalani is a New York CST Manager focusing on clients in the strategy consulting space. She started at AlphaSights in 2016 and is a graduate of Colgate University. 6:30 am - I usually set my alarm around 6:30 am, but it takes me a little whi...

Every day we power the progress of ambitious Fortune 500 professionals across the globe. Our clients are strategists, investors, innovators, and decision-makers spanning every industry and geography. Their pursuits differ, but they all need access...

Lexi Zavras joined AlphaSights in September of 2013 after graduating from Dartmouth College with a degree in Government and Arabic. AlphaSights caught her attention right out of school because it offered the opportunity to see your immediate comme...

This quarter, AlphaSights selected  Access Institute for Psychological Services as its charity partner. AlphaSights Client Service Managers, Natalie Rasmus in our SF office and Eve Thomson from our NY office, sat down with Azita Ghafourpour, Direc...

What does it mean to be the “world’s knowledge partner?” At AlphaSights, we connect key decision-makers at corporations, private equity firms, investment funds, and top consulting firms to industry experts with the knowledge they need to make info...

After graduating from the London School of Economics, Jakob Muratov began his career as a Client Service Associate in AlphaSights’ London office. He serves AlphaSights’ consulting accounts, focusing on Nordic-based clients. Initially drawn to Alph...

“Hey Anisha, I just received an email from Connie on Software Engineering, and she will be putting some time on your calendar for next week,” my manager, Natalie, told me one snowy morning in January 2016. “Sure,” I said, without giving it much...

DISCLAIMER: I’ve only been to 2 conferences ever. This is what I learned. I’ll write an advanced guide when I become a well seasoned conference goer. Also, let’s assume money is not important here. ;) .   .   . I think we can all agree tha...

There’s not much debate that Computer Science is currently one of the most desirable degrees to have outside of college. In an article written by Forbes Magazine, an undergraduate, master’s or doctorate’s degree in the field of Computer Science ...

Over the past year, we've spoken to many corporate strategy leaders about their pain points when it comes to supporting their stakeholders through fact-based insights and actionable recommendations. Most recently, we hosted a dinner in New York wi...