BRG is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.
Position Title: 2025 Economics and Data Analytics Summer Associate
Location: Washington, DC
Position Type: Full time
Requisition ID: JR100189
Description:
We do Consulting Differently
Our Summer Associate internships will be approximately 8 weeks in length and will begin Summer 2025. Summer Associate positions are for candidates with an expected graduation date between December 2025 and July 2026.
Resumes will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
Berkeley Research Group (BRG) is a global consulting firm that helps its clients, which consist of leading organizations and businesses, advance in three key areas: disputes and investigations, corporate finance, and performance improvement and advisory. We are an integrated group of experts, industry leaders, academics, data scientists, and economists, working beyond borders and disciplines. We harness our collective expertise to deliver the inspired insights and practical strategies our clients need to stay ahead of what’s next.
Summer Associate positions are available in BRG’s Economics, Disputes & Investigations (EDI) Community, Health Analytics Practice (HAP), and Healthcare Performance Improvement Analytics (HPI Analytics). These communities are comprised of a diverse collection of experts who bring extensive academic and industry experience to deliver data driven and innovative approaches to complex business, legal, and regulatory challenges. These communities interact to deliver unique and insightful perspectives to our clients across various industries. Candidates can select a preferred area as part of the application process. Further information on each consulting opportunity includes:
Economics, Disputes & Investigations (EDI) – Our core strength is the ability to leverage a variety of different backgrounds – including economists, statisticians, accountants, and financial professionals – to analyze complex business, legal, and regulatory issues. We look for our Summer Associates to use and further develop their economic research abilities as well as their analytical and statistical skills on cases spanning a wide range of subjects, including antitrust, accounting, competition policy, class actions, intellectual property, labor and employment, among others.
Healthcare Analytics Practice (HAP) – Our core strength is the ability to harness and analyze large amounts of electronic healthcare data and turn it into meaningful and insightful information. Healthcare companies trust our independent thinking and ability to solve unstructured problems. We serve a range of healthcare clients including health insurers, providers, life sciences companies, and the legal and financial firms that work within the industry. Summer Associates can implement research skills and complex data analytics techniques on cases for a variety of healthcare clients.
Healthcare Performance Improvement Analytics (HPI Analytics)- Our core strength is providing measurable and sustainable results to our clients, including standalone community hospitals, multihospital health systems, and major academic medical centers. Our data focused approach to performance improvement helps hospitals transform their organizations and significantly improve their margins, with strategies that emphasize rapid results and considerable return on investment. Our team specializes in performing advanced analytics on client datasets. We design and deliver innovative visual dashboards that provide valuable insights and support our clients' strategic initiatives.
The work of a Summer Associate can have quantitative and qualitative aspects, depending on the needs of specific projects and the Summer Associate’s skills and interests. Projects range from subject matter research to data collection to the preparation of economic, statistical, financial, and other forms of analysis. Summer Associates should be able to work as part of a team to assemble compelling evidence from data and research that forms the basis for our expert opinions.
General Responsibilities:
Develop, maintain, and analyze databases, spreadsheets and other files as dictated by project needs.
Combine programming, model building, and statistical analysis skills using relational database and statistical software with economic intuition to analyze a variety of subjects. Use software such as SQL, R, Stata, SAS, Python, or Snowflake.
Gather and review information from academic literature, legal documents, specialized industry resources, commercial databases, or other sources appropriate for the unique requirements of a project.
Progression towards a master’s or bachelor’s degree in economics, mathematics, data science, statistics, accounting, finance, healthcare administration or related fields.
Experience with relational database program(s) (e.g., MS SQL Server, SAS, MS Access, Tableau, Alteryx, MS Access, MySQL, Oracle, Snowflake or Teradata) is desirable but not required. The willingness to expand those capabilities is desirable.
Experience with statistical analysis programs (e.g., R, Stata, SAS, Python, SPSS) is desirable but not required. The willingness to expand exposure to these tools is desirable.
With the exception of the HPI Analytics role, which is fully remote, this position is based in one of BRG’s offices and requires working with colleagues in the office three to four days a week, on average. The office location varies for each of the communities listed above:
Economics, Disputes & Investigations (EDI) – Washington, D.C., with limited openings in Los Angeles, New York, College Station TX and the San Francisco Bay area
Healthcare Analytics Practice (HAP) – Washington, D.C., with limited openings in New York, Boston, Chicago and Tampa
Candidate must be able to submit verification of his/her legal right to work in the United States, without company sponsorship now or in the future.
BRG was named a 2024 Campus Forward Award Winner for Large Early Career Programs by Ripplematch. This award recognizes excellence in early career hiring, celebrating programs that embrace innovative recruitment strategies, make significant investments in diversity and inclusion, and support the next generation of talent through impactful internships and entry-level programs.
BRG is a recipient of the Human Rights Campaigns Equality 100 Award for our LGBTQ+ corporate policies, practices and beliefs.
About BRG
BRG combines world-leading academic credentials with world-tested business expertise purpose-built for agility and connectivity, which sets us apart—and gets you ahead.
At BRG, our top-tier professionals include specialist consultants, industry experts, renowned academics, and leading-edge data scientists. Together, they bring a diversity of proven real-world experience to economics, disputes, and investigations; corporate finance; and performance improvement services that address the most complex challenges for organizations across the globe.
Our unique structure nurtures the interdisciplinary relationships that give us the edge, laying the groundwork for more informed insights and more original, incisive thinking from diverse perspectives that, when paired with our global reach and resources, make us uniquely capable to address our clients’ challenges. We get results because we know how to apply our thinking to your world.
At BRG, we don’t just show you what’s possible. We’re built to help you make it happen.
BRG is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran status, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law.
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