Tom Spencer

AUGUST 8, 2021

Cracking a case can be a daunting task. As you prepare for your next consulting case interview, here are 4 quick tips that will help you to tackle any case. Remember, the interviewer may have additional information that they will only share if you ask! Develop, test and refine your assumptions. Be creative!

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Case Interview Interviews Case Study Case Studies 88

Tom Spencer

MAY 13, 2018

As I have been asked by quite a lot of people to share some frameworks, I will use the next 3 posts to walk you through the most frequently used frameworks in the case interview. While you are reading those frameworks and related examples, keep in mind that no framework is the skeleton key to all case interviews.

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Clarity Consultants

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

With the rise of technology and the increasing adoption of remote and hybrid learning, organizations are rethinking their training and development strategies. Conduct surveys or interviews to gather insights, and consider creating learner profiles to guide your design process. Ready to transform your company with instructional design?

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Training Training Case Interview Guidelines 278

Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

Consulting-style case interviews are highly effective, and the same format is being adopted more and more widely. The major consultancies have converged on a largely identical interview style, precisely because it excels in picking out the most genuinely capable candidates from the huge pools of applications received.

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Case Interview Interviews Consulting Case Study 78

Tom Spencer

JUNE 2, 2018

And as more and more candidates start to use them frequently, it is harder to impress the interviewers. Hence, I would like to give you two secret models to help you delight your interviewers. Strategy related cases are not very usual during interviews. Strategy related cases are not very usual during interviews.

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Case Interview Interviews Retail Tools 68

Consulting Success

JULY 24, 2017

He’s interviewed over 200 C-level executives and written over 170 white papers. His career path took him from software company technical writing and journalism to a marketing executive in a software company before becoming an independent copywriter who specializes in white papers and case studies.

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How To Consulting Case Study Case Studies 257

Management Consulted

AUGUST 10, 2014

During an interview, it is common to be asked “Tell me about yourself.” The fit interview is where magic happens , where your true self comes out, and where the interview is ultimately decided. The fit interview is the tiebreaker, so you best be on your game. Au contraire, peeps. Why Consulting?

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Interviews Case Interview Consulting Industry 215

Management Consulted

MARCH 23, 2014

In my view, the 2 best things about working at BCG are the people and the opportunity for personal development. In my experience, the average case team is made up of 3 or 4 nationalities, including the individuals who in past lives were entrepreneurs, surgeons, or front line soldiers and now run charities or marathons in their spare time.

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Boston Consulting Group Case Interview Interviews Bain 146

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 18, 2013

As the next installment in our popular Firm Profile series, we take a look at the evolution, reinvention, and current interview tactics of one of the world’s premier consulting firms – IBM. IBM was founded in 1911 and has a rich history of ingenuity, deep convictions, premier research and development, and trend setting.

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IBM GBS Interviews Consulting Case Interview 203

Consulting Success

JANUARY 29, 2018

Positioning Yourself As The Expert — How To Develop A Consulting Voice That Clients Will Listen To with Ron Carucci. I studied arts and it was my initial formal training. I switched careers into learning and development and organization development. That led to a ten-year longitudinal study of more than 2,700 leaders.

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Management Consulted

MAY 25, 2014

GALLUP CONSULTING INTERVIEWS AND CULTURE. He developed research methods and programs for the television and movie industry to help clients determine advertising effectiveness and how to identify what the market wanted to watch in film and television. This survey was meant to determine the quality of life around the world.

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Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 181

Management Consulted

AUGUST 1, 2013

Have an upcoming Oliver Wyman interview? In the meantime, Marsh & McLennan was creating Mercer; in 1975, Mercer was developed as the human resources consulting arm of Marsh & McLennan. The firm offers consulting services including strategy, operations, risk management, organizational transformation, and leadership development.

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Oliver Wyman Interviews Mercer NERA Economic Consulting 201

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

The prize for best answer was a FREE Consulting Case Bank and The Consulting Bible 3rd edition – a HUGE giveaway – so we weren’t surprised when we heard from so many of you. As we were looking through your responses, we realized you were answering as if you were in an interview – and that’s smart.

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Consulting Case Interview Interviews Engineering 204

freshminds

JANUARY 17, 2019

The interview is as much an interview of how well you connect with the interviewer and your interpersonal skills as well as your job fit. Make sure you fully understand the question in hand and write it down, capturing all of the relevant details and requirements of the case study. Provide options.

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Case Interview Case Studies Case Study Interviews 45

Harvard Business

JANUARY 4, 2018

Four years ago, my team of researchers and I embarked on a large-scale scientific study of self-awareness. Developing and validating a seven factor, multi-rater assessment of self-awareness , because our review of the research didn’t identify any strong, well-validated, comprehensive measures.

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Management Consulted

MAY 4, 2014

We recently had the opportunity to interview Jason, a student at NYU Stern who landed a summer internship with Deloitte Consulting S&O. It was a lot of professional development on a broad level, which meant how to network properly and preparing for interviews. Jenny Rae: Thanks for joining us today. Jason: Right.

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Deloitte Case Interview Consulting Interviews 158

Management Consulted

AUGUST 28, 2013

Booz & Company Interview and Culture. So you have a Booz & Company interview coming up, and you want to be the best candidate they see? This idea became a theory, and he developed a practice. This group then began conducting studies and investigations for clients including commercial and trade organizations.

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Interviews Culture Company Case Interview 181

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 13, 2015

As you’ve likely already figured out, the case interview is a very unusual creature. In the consulting case interview, your time is even more precious: you have only 4 minutes to develop and present a plan (2 to structure your case and 2 to present). Overview of consulting case frameworks.

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Case Interview Consulting Interviews Study 100

Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

THE frequently used term business growth simply describes the process of improving some measure of an enterprise’s success, ranging from promotion, product development, new market entry or improving employee productivity. Addressing this type of case question is achievable, provided you can identify the root of the problem. Consentino.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

Ethan Rasiel then goes on to give an overview of developing an approach for each unique business problem and then ends the section sharing some basic business rule like the 80/20 rule, finding the key drivers, and so on. Are hoping that by reading this, you will learn how to break into McKinsey and will be a master at case interviews.

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McKinsey Case Interview Interviews Consulting 213

CaseInterview.com

APRIL 30, 2019

Translated into case interview terminology: 1) You stink at cases and have no idea you stink so bad. 2) You stink at cases, and you now know you stink. 3) You're good at cases, but you have to remember all the steps. 4) You're good at cases, and it's as automatic as breathing. Here's why.

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Case Interview Interviews Analysis Consulting 49

Consulting Matters

JULY 25, 2024

The Anatomy of a Benefit-Driven Testimonial or Case Study So, what makes a testimonial truly powerful? She helped me develop a clear strategy and within three months, I increased my client base by 30%. For examples of how to create compelling case studies, check out my success stories page. NEED MORE HELP?

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How To Case Study Case Studies Case Interview 156

Management Consulted

MARCH 9, 2014

As we worked with clients who have been granted positions at this firm, we’ve developed some interesting perspectives on this company. Physician manpower planning and medical staff development. Talent Development. Is The Advisory Board Company is a good company for you to work for? Physician practice M &A. Labor cost.

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Interviews Culture Company Healthcare 147

CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Here area couple of success stories received from readers who used case interview preparation techniques for securing an offer outside of consulting. Success Story: I would like to share my positive experience of a business case interview, thanks to your website! You get then 5 minutes to present your conclusions.

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 13, 2021

A question I am asked often is how to utilize all of the various frameworks and advice on frameworks out there on other case interview prep sites? It is very hard to remember a lot of case study frameworks… let alone master all of them. This is definitely not good. and then to ask for data to test that hypothesis.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 13, 2019

What you will learn: Learn how to market yourself through your resume and cover letter so that you will get the interview. Topics Covered: How to Write a Resume That Will Get You the Interview. How to Write a Cover Letter That Will Get You the Interview. How to Network Your Way to an Interview.

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Case Interview Cover Letters Interviews Resumes 53

Tom Spencer

JULY 28, 2013

Despite the frequency of these deals, a large number of market studies have indicated that “ 50% to 70% of mergers and acquisitions fail to create incremental shareholder value ”. Clarifying why your client wishes to undertake the acquisition is a good place to begin, both in a case interview and in a real-life consulting engagement.

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Strategy Strategy Strategy& Case Interview 98

Harvard Business

MARCH 23, 2017

” This does not have to be the case, and in fact, it should not be the case. Research Note Our study is based on 120 semi-structured interviews with the subjects of five organizations in India , Zimbabwe , and Egypt. We developed research case studies on two companies and teaching case studies on four companies.

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Ethics Case Interview Case Study Case Studies 137

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 4, 2013

This is a transcribed phone interview between Rachel (name changed) and Jenny Rae – enjoy her insights about failing the first time around but coming back for consulting success and landing an offer with McKinsey in her senior year. What I look back on it, I think the way I did my cases just weren’t at the bar they had set.

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McKinsey Case Interview Interviews Oliver Wyman 125

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 7, 2014

. BRIDGESPAN INTERVIEWS & CULTURE . As a result of the studies that the small team conducted, the proposition was put forth that Bain establish a non-profit practice area which was considered, but ultimately rejected. Strategy Development. Youth Development. BRIDGESPAN INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING .

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Interviews Culture Bain Consulting 150

CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Reader's Email #1: I have been practicing cases for management consulting case interviews for more than a month using your videos and on your Look Over My Shoulder ® program. [ I received this email nearly a month ago, so in total this person has been practicing for nearly two months before the final round interview.

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Case Interview Interviews Bain Handbook 40

Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2016

offices where employees were entrepreneurial, engaged, excited to come to work, and as a result were quickly developing new ideas for customer-facing products. developed practices of rapid development cycles , user-centered design , and collaboration in an open office layout. Leaders from the U.S. You and Your Team Series.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Question: First of all, I want to thank you for all the great materials that you have developed and posted on the web. I have recently received feedback from my final round interviews at McKinsey, and have been told that they would like to interview me two more times because they were not clear on some of my case solving abilities.

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Case Interview Interviews McKinsey Data 40

Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Interviewing with NERA Economic Consulting? NERA has developed quite a reputation, but has managed to keep itself small, clearly focused and prestigious in the process. M&M companies are traditionally excellent pioneers of diversity and inclusion culture – check out the below under Interviews & Recruiting. .

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NERA Economic Consulting Interviews Oliver Wyman Consulting 147

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. Strategy Consulting : tend to use “strategic” type case studies (more details below). How to answer the case study.

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Case Studies Case Study Study Case Interview 53

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 4, 2016

” The Ailes case commanded a lot of media attention, but it was not all that unique. After conducting a qualitative study of 31 women in predominantly masculine industries, we also saw that sexual harassment continues to be a problem for women. Develop clearer HR and reporting systems. Fear of retaliation.

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Report Case Interview Culture Training 133

Consulting Matters

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

They are interested in case studies only to a point. This principle hit home for me when I did an interview project to find out what executives are looking for in consultants. One thing that consultants do that most clients hate is cookie cutter solutions that feel to clients as nothing more than "management by magazine."

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Methodologies How To Tools Case Interview 207