Management Consulted

JANUARY 27, 2009

From salaries to travel, from boutiques to MBB, I’ve helped people understand the job, write the perfect resumes , and ace the toughest interviews. Get The Consulting Bible today and be the smartest interviewer in the room. One phrase that everyone encourages you to use but you should never say in an actual interview (pg.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Interviewing with NERA Economic Consulting? That of course, is a very broad generalization because, as we’ll talk about soon, NERA has 30+ practice areas ranging from bankruptcy to statistical sampling and analysis. NERA ECONOMIC CONSULTING. Well, NERA is no MBB. Although NERA is concentrated on the East Coast of the U.S.,

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 9, 2019

So maybe you’ve gotten to the second round, maybe you’re still waiting to hear back, or maybe you’re hoping to interview again in the next recruitment cycle. Regardless of whichever bucket you fall into, it always helps to see things from the interviewers’ perspective. Here are the top three things they’re looking for: 1.

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Interviews Case Interview Consulting ROI 110

Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

I vividly remember the last consulting interview during first-year MBA recruiting season. I had managed to get interviews with three firms but only made it past the first round with this final company. Of course, I picked it up and received the gut wrenching words that ended my chances for a consulting internship that summer.

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Consulting Case Interview How To Recruitment 88

Successful Independent Consulting

OCTOBER 22, 2017

SpareHire is an online work marketplace for finance and consulting projects.” Formerly MBA & Co, TalMix is based in London, and I get the impression that most of their projects are in the European Union, but that may not be the case. The company claims to have 4,000 professionals in its network, all paid on a 1099 tax basis.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Specializing in economic, financial and market analysis, specifically for cases in litigation, Cornerstone Research touts itself as the one player major law firms turn to when navigating the obstacle course that is the American and European legal systems. How exactly does the firm help, though? International Arbitration and Litigation.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 7, 2014

. BRIDGESPAN INTERVIEWS & CULTURE . Bridgespan’s Leading for Impact is a six-month-long course that brings together nonprofit executive directors/CEOs and their senior staff to build capabilities across the critical dimensions that enable nonprofit leaders and their teams to become highly effective. Networking Groups.

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Interviews Culture Bain Consulting 150

Harvard Business

MARCH 15, 2018

Nonetheless, statistics show that women-owned businesses, which account for one-third of Swedish businesses, are not granted the corresponding proportion of government venture financing; in fact, women-owned businesses receive only 7%. The VCs stated that, in all cases, they need to evaluate each venture’s financial status.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 31, 2020

To secure a final round interview at Bain, you would have to be in the top 3% of applicants for that office. No one enjoys being turned down, especially in the case of a consulting role where a lot of preparation is required. The key thing to do after a rejection is to reflect on the interview process and ask for feedback.

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Management Consulted

JUNE 5, 2016

If healthcare decision-making processes and drug development get you out of bed in the morning, or if you simply want to learn from someone who successfully navigated the consulting interview process just last year, be ready to pick up some great networking and interview tips for yourself. interview on Friday.

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Healthcare Case Interview Consulting Interviews 100

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The challenge, she said, was that these managers were highly proficient in their own disciplines such as finance, marketing, research, clinical care, and insurance reimbursement — and had demonstrated that they could manage people in these areas — but she needed them to be “bigger” leaders.

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Leadership Handbook Healthcare Emotional Intelligence 132

Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2018

Toby Johnson, who I interviewed for my book Reinventing You , taught me this one. Those leadership abilities, she knew, could be applied inside a corporation — and she was ultimately able to make that case successfully. To make that kind of case, though, you first have to recognize the value of your experience.

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Real Estate Case Interview Deloitte Leadership 136

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

FTI CONSULTING INTERVIEWS & CULTURE. The firm has made up for its youth, however, by growing rapidly through innovation, famous cases and a lot of acquisitions. the consulting firm started off like a lot of American startups do – in a small, forgettable warehouse somewhere on the outskirts of town (in this case, in Annapolis, MD).

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Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2017

In one telling case , construction workers went home at the end of the week as employees only to be informed on the following Monday that, perhaps by the magic of some unknown force, they had become, “member/owners” of hundreds of limited liability companies, effectively stripping them of federal and state job protections.

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Case Interview Government Insurance Insurance 136

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2017

I’ve also independently developed a number of online courses so have thought deeply about which kind of programming is appropriate for professionals’ needs. But in many cases, professionals face a more ambiguous situation: having an MBA may be considered a selling point, but it’s rarely required for a particular job.

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Education Case Interview Course Finance 73

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

In case you were wondering, the company’s current trademarked slogan, “We Didn’t Invent the Chicken, Just the Chicken Sandwich,” does indeed refer to their flagship menu-item, the Chick-Fil-A chicken sandwich. Interview Tips & Tricks. For tips and tricks to succeeded in any interview setting click here.

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Culture Cover Letters Case Interview Interviews 100

Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Interviews. After going through a handful of interviews through referrals, direct reach out from HR/hiring team, and LinkedIn/company website applications I would categorize my interviews into three buckets: Corporate strategy. In terms of the interview process it followed the following steps: HR interview (fit).

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Interviews Case Interview Strategy& Strategy 68

Harvard Business

APRIL 3, 2018

We interviewed 65 entrepreneurs in the UK and Canada. In each case, rather than inhibiting behavior, these sources of fear drove greater effort. Of course, weaknesses can never be eliminated altogether. Our research shows a more nuanced picture: Fear can inhibit and motivate.

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Research Financial Case Interview Emotional Intelligence 148

CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

If you know finance, especially the finance of retail businesses, that’s nearly impossible. Of course, I was admiring the company's financial management while also feeling a little chilly. In contrast, my favorite boardroom belonged to a clothing retail chain in California during the Great Recession of 2008.

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Case Interview Retail Finance Conference 59

CaseInterview.com

AUGUST 1, 2024

What Is the BCG Online Case? 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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

I spent the last five months working in a grocery store after having turned down several job offers in finance and banking upon graduation last May. I knew early-on that I did not want my career to turn completely towards finance or banking and so I decided to wait and search for other options. It works; your stuff really works.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 13, 2019

A reader sent me an email asking if there was a pattern or trend to what kind of case problems are given by each firm? So, does BCG give M&A questions while McKinsey gives business cases? My answer is the cases you get are all over the place and there's no pattern that I've ever seen or heard about.

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Case Interview McKinsey Interviews Insurance 40

Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

Since then, we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks who follow technology companies. This notion, that risk is a desirable feature, can seem like sacrilege to anyone who’s taken an introductory finance course.

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freshminds

MARCH 5, 2018

Why are Case Studies used? Note that they are not looking for a “right answer”; they are looking for a “right method” Types of case studies. Here are some examples of different approaches across industries; Management Consulting : tend to use “operational” type case studies (more details below).

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Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2016

Case Study #1: Get to know the founder and spend quality time with the team. He also considered the impact a change might have on his family and its finances. ” Case Study #2: Determine what you want out of the experience. While the first rounds of interviews were very formal, the last was a revelation.

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How To Case Interview Case Study Case Studies 128

Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

To look into this question, I conducted a case study as part of my dissertation research involving 23 women of color at a Fortune 500 company. Sixteen women were interviewed and seven others participated in a focus group. This, of course, can be difficult or uncomfortable.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Your website, LOMS program and daily emails were definitely great resources that helped me learn more about consulting and more importantly, the case interview process. If you don't come from a business or business finance background, it is worth reading a book or two on financial statement analysis. Thank you!

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Tom Spencer

JULY 16, 2015

The Three C’s Framework may prove extremely valuable for consulting case questions. If the company is considering a certain course of action, does it have sufficient funds available to undertake the project? (Source: Flickr ). It involves examining customers, competition, and the company. What’s the break even analysis? Cost Structure.

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Case Interview Industry Productivity Interviews 60

CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 11, 2019

While uncertainty is self-explanatory, if you're not from a finance background, the concept of arbitrage may be new to you. There is a discrepancy in the price of oranges in these two locations -- in this case a substantial one. There is a simple principle the underlies the relationship between client and consulting firm.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 23, 2015

We’re not going to send you to Canary Wharf to work in finance. We have a curriculum of four or five particular training courses that we send people on over the first two years. In terms of the training courses we offer, for example, a three day strategic problem solving course, and a two day course in performance improvement training.

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The Fearless Marketer

JANUARY 20, 2020

In most cases you’ll get one or two of these, rarely all of them. So, of course, I don’t know exactly how M will respond, but I am very clear about what I’m asking for. You’re writing a book and need to interview people: “I’m looking to connect with top-level leaders who have a reputation for shifting their culture.”.

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Meeting B2B Case Interview Resources 62

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Second, as a 20-year review from 1993 to 2012 showed, CEOs’ judgment affects key strategic and managerial processes , such as staffing, financing, and marketing decisions. The problem, of course, is that there isn’t a surplus of talented CEOs who are relatively indifferent to pay or happy to be paid below the industry baseline.

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Culture Case Interview Study Analysis 70

Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2018

When the company rolled out the algorithm to decide which applicants should get interviews, the algorithm actually favored “nontraditional” candidates much more than human screeners did. Of course, we should be doing all we can to eradicate institutional bias and its pernicious influence on decision-making algorithms.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2018

For example, Boston’s program includes job placements at private-sector employers across a wide range of industries, including finance, health care, life sciences, and education. percentage points and course reductions fell by 15.3 Long-term program outcomes. Average school attendance increased by 2.5 percentage points.

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Government Pharmaceuticals Groups Case Interview 70

Harvard Business

JANUARY 24, 2017

Through a coordinated, systemic, prolonged intervention with dozens of institutions and thousands of individual participants, new growth of the local companies we trained has directly created over 1033 jobs, fueled by dozens of new private sector financings. The primary ingredient for sustaining growth is, of course, growth itself.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 17, 2019

years ago my touchpoints with blockchain increased, for example, while writing my master degree thesis on “Possible Applications on Health Data and Health Insurance” I interviewed someone in the health space that was working on a blockchain project for his health data startup. At the time I only associated it with cryptocurrency and banking.

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Emerson Consulting Group

JANUARY 10, 2019

There’s nothing like the process of writing to bring forth more clarity with regard to your own understanding of your writing’s subject matter, which in this case will always be, one way or another, what your company does and how it does it. Writing a book will deepen your understanding of your company’s value proposition.

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