If you have a job with no path or a poor Manager, trying to find other positions is also impossible - since your current Management has to be bought into wanting you to move on.

They desparately need a system like P&G where each Manager is accountible for the upward movement of their staff, and only when their staff are ready for advancement can they advance. Managers keep people in roles longer than they should to further their own ends, even if those people are better suited moving onto a new challenge.

Opportunity for advancement is mostly limited by hiring senior managers from outside the company.

There were some fair opportunities for advancement, I didn't feel like it was necessary for one to go to business school to become an associate. However, there isn't much international opportunity until after your 3rd year analyst role.

Advancement seems to be more and more based on who you know instead of your performance.