Tom Spencer

JUNE 9, 2023

You might be completing case studies, conducting experiments, and writing lengthy legal reports, all of which will prepare you for your career. This article reflects on 4 activities that were common time sinks in college. This skill will save you lots of your (and your client’s) time and money.

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CaseInterview.com

AUGUST 20, 2019

Networks , networks, networks after missing most campus recruiting deadlines. This is the motivation for what happens next: Studies everything in print about management consulting once finding out Deloitte is still recruiting on campus. Finds your website one week before back to back case interviews.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2016

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Claudia was the newest recruit to the sales team—young, eager, pretty. Ada: Because he’s your boss? Elizabeth: He’s not! Just C-suite. And super-smart.

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Management Consulted

MAY 8, 2016

In this article, we’re going to be more deeply exploring interviewer- and Interviewee-led interviews: which firms prefer which, and their similarities and their differences. Remember, you will ALWAYS be leading this section (both case types leave you to succeed or fail here, so make sure you are prepared to do so.

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QEmploy

OCTOBER 8, 2019

As we all know, the internet is huge and there are many different articles out there that claim that their list is the best for consultants, but they are often very short and don’t provide enough information so readers don’t know what to expect. On the blog you can find articles that focus on innovative ideas that can improve your business.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Here's a quick look at six months of strategic, happy, thinking: The old mission statement: "We recruit, train and support volunteer host home families to shelter abused, neglected and at-risk children and youth." Tags: case studies branding vision Nonprofit success stories mission. But to what purpose? From process to outcome.

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freshminds

JANUARY 20, 2015

Excel skills are the one thing which recruiters continuously say are very weak among new consultants. 2) Chandoo - An excellent site with video tutorials alongside step by step articles, downloadable templates and longer specialised online tutorials for a fee. Read more articles like this , or ask the experts!

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freshminds

MARCH 10, 2015

From articles to help you decide if this career is right for you or to move from a firm into industry to what would definitely be useful for when you've got the job - templates for presentations and Excel models! Ace the case This website gives help for all aspects of the case study part of the consultancy interview process.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 10, 2017

” Databases and job search websites, such as Glassdoor, Indeed, Ladders, and Salary.com are a good starting point, but Lees recommends talking to recruiters and headhunters and others in the industry. Case Study #1: Do due diligence on salary considerations and be open to making trade-offs. ” Job content.

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CaseInterview.com

AUGUST 21, 2019

Additionally, you should know: - I came out of a school that didn't do a lot of consulting recruiting, so I knew very little about it. - Determined to not falter during full-time recruiting, I stumbled across your website, engulfed the content, and became so much better. - LOMS was/is the best case prep material in the world!!!

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Email: My success is really your success at case preparation. Preparation: - LOMS and McKinsey's Problem Solving Test for the case studies (four weeks). Personally, I found the best case interviews [ in LOMS ] to be the most helpful. It is possible to recruit well, but not do well early in your career.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 4, 2019

When I first started recruiting for consulting jobs, an interviewer at Bain shared a story (arguably a legend at this point) about how Bain (or it might have been McKinsey) was asked to advise Motorola on whether or not they should enter the mobile phone market. In classic case study analysis, you’d ask them, "What are the market segments?"

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

I never submitted a resume through their website, but rather, followed your advice on networking and was able to connect and network with someone who directly referred me to their recruiter. Although these case studies were conducted separately from the interview, 1 was timed, and the other was due 20 hours after it was assigned.

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CaseInterview.com

APRIL 30, 2019

First, those who have the time and are able to devote it to case study interview practice have a significant advantage. The consultant walks down the hall to the recruiter coordinator's office. She says to the recruiter, "Hey there Amy. I gave her a quick case, and I think she's good. How's it going?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 24, 2017

” Case Study #1: Underscore the importance of your message and follow up in writing. ” A few years ago Focus Insite embarked on a big market-research study where it needed to recruit doctors, patients, and caregivers from all over the country who had knowledge of a specific medical condition. .

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2017

. “Don’t steamroll your boss with research, but there’s no harm in using empirical evidence” to make your case more compelling. You might say, for instance, “ I read an interesting article in HBR that shows how allowing employees to work from home improves results.”

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 2, 2016

The potential for cross-office cases exists as well, where you will have to work with supervisors who do not know you and are often expect more of you than they do of their own teams. CORNERSTONE RESEARCH INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. Case Studies. 2 for Best Consulting Firms for Compensation. #5 CORNERSTONE RESEARCH LINKS.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 30, 2017

The metrics we track include: productivity, cost savings in recruitment and training, quality, retention, and speed to promotion. Three-quarters of our training is practicum, providing hands-on practice through role playing, case studies, and simulations. These metrics can be converted into an estimate of ROI for the employer.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2017

In later-stage ventures, important skills include recruiting specialist employees, communicating vision to new employees, and managing company culture. A founder must be able to assess their own strengths and weaknesses and know how to recruit and motivate complementary founding team members.” Cofounders are crucial.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

We chose Brazil’s beef industry as the location of our case study , both for the size and complexity of the industry and for its impact on the planet. Nonetheless, the case study demonstrates that measuring the value of sustainable business can be done, and that sustainable business itself can be cost-effective.

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CaseInterview.com

AUGUST 1, 2024

The BCG Online Case is an online case interview simulation that assesses a candidate’s problem-solving skills and analytical thinking abilities. It is designed to simulate a real-life client engagement, and consists of a single case study that the candidate must work through.

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 22, 2019

While it's not necessary to be perfect on every case, it is necessary to come pretty close most of the time. Basically I think of the recruiting process as a race against time. This whole idea of managing speed to competency is surprisingly important in recruiting because you are constantly working against the clock.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 25, 2019

A CaseInterview.com student who received an interview from BCG recently asked me about how a practice case study interview works. I've also noticed a trend of more firms offering practice case interviews with an actual practice interviewer. This has got to be a pretty expensive investment on their part to do this.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 25, 2019

When practicing case studies with friends, I had zero (none at all!) Honestly I did not have time to finish reading all the books, so I just glanced through the beginning of Case In Point and practices. I am a first year MBA and I am trying to recruit for internship position. problems with math.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 8, 2017

Case Study #1: Talk about concerns openly and give people flexibility. Others were worried about the company and how policy changes would affect its ability to recruit from abroad. ” Case Study #2: Provide a sense of hope. Don’t: Neglect your own anxiety and concerns. Ignore people’s emotions.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2017

Godbout: I have yet to see the case study of massive change management of innovation where a group of people came in and, like a whirlwind, changed everyone’s thoughts and executed the whole thing themselves. How did you recruit techies to take these jobs? The federal government has a broken marketplace.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

Dr. Reddy’s: A Movement-Minded Case Study. This was the case with the leaders of the 1960s civil rights movement, who recruited members through the strong community ties formed in churches. But recruiting new members to a cause is not the only way that movement makers leverage social networks.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Case Study #1: Tend to your primary work relationship by finding solutions to your boss’s problems. Case Study #2: Make your boss look good by being an exemplary employee — and don’t force a relationship with your boss’s boss. Neglect your primary work relationship.

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CaseInterview.com

APRIL 13, 2019

10 years, one of the most common questions I am asked is how much time is needed to prepare for a case interview and how to prepare when you don’t have much time. I want to address in this article the 2 nd question of how to prepare for a case interview when you don’t have much time. prepare while under a time crunch.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 25, 2019

You expect much more of us than the interviewers do, but then - unlike the recruitment pages of the consultancies - you actually provide us with the tools that allow us to meet those expectations. Without those tools, I would have been lost. To get access to these free resources, just fill out the form below: First Name *.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2017

” In the workplace, this “can stymie diversity, recruiting, promotion, and retention efforts.” Job listings play an important role in recruiting talent and often provide the first impression of a company’s culture. Case Study #1: Work to understand biases and set diversity goals.

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

To illustrate how this all plays out on a larger scale in real companies, here are two mini case studies from businesses we’ve worked with. Adobe’s New York office had been growing due to its acquisitions of smaller technology companies.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2017

Climate change may also hinder organizations’ ability to recruit the next generation of business leaders; many Millennials simply won’t work for companies that don’t share their commitment to sustainability.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 29, 2018

Case Study #1: Create a “ resume of accomplishments” to bolster your argument. The job would involve managing the HR team, and also recruiting and hiring for the company itself. Case Study #2: Ask at the right time and request specific feedback. Play the “other offer” card recklessly.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Among the group’s divisions is the formerly independent HealthCare Partners, which, as this Commonwealth Fund case study makes clear, has a long history of accepting and managing financial risk, using advanced information systems, and promoting quality-improvement programs.

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Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2018

Real-world applications range from medical diagnoses and judicial sentencing to professional recruiting and resource allocation in public agencies. ” In each of these case studies, the data scientists did what sounds like an alarming thing: They trained their algorithms on past data that is surely biased by historical prejudices.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

The school summarized its decision in a revealing 23-page investigation report , which serves as a useful case study for the way organizations, leaders, and individuals fall victim to moral biases — rationalizations for behaving unethically usually due to one’s self-interest.

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