Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

Over the coming months we will be posting about the consulting interview. In this post we look at the purpose of the consulting interview. The purpose of the consulting interview is twofold. Why do interviewers use the Airport Test? Management Consulting airport test client readiness consulting consulting interviews'

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Social entrepreneurship combines the problem solving, product design, and strategic implementation associated with traditional entrepreneurial and consulting roles with large scale societal impact. Let us look at an example as a sort of case study. Sometimes, they also complete team-building exercises such as “Escape the Room”.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 27, 2014

Many history, English, and art majors, engineers, and law students – all of interest to consulting firms, but lacking in business basics – come to us asking how they can develop their business understanding to prepare for consulting interviews. Complete our Consultant For a Day exercise. Start your own business. .

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 17, 2020

My guidance has usually been in the context of a client seeing major drops in sales, engaging in layoffs, and redirecting the team in a productive direction (as opposed to being paralyzed by fear or working on their resumes). I’ve also led mass casualty training exercises as a field operations leader and incident commander.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Thank you for preparing the best case prep material out there. I'd like to add one thing, though: you should DEFINITELY put more emphasis on how great/helpful your Case Interview Secrets book actually is (specially if used in tandem with the LOMS program). Kearney and almost landed one at McKinsey!

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LSA Global

JUNE 17, 2024

For example, one recent client wanted to run sales training focused on helping their team to shift from selling one-off products to SaaS solutions. This could mean focusing on specific roles, products , techniques, strategic accounts , or market conditions most relevant to their success.

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Harmonious Workplaces

OCTOBER 24, 2023

I did this while attending UChicago and picking up extra cash cleaning industrial carpets, being a production artist for GES Exposition Services during the summer, or working a Blockbuster. In 2001, Michael hired a no-name like me after an informational interview to become the Associate Marketing Director for GIA Publications.

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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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Management Consulted

MARCH 28, 2016

From the very beginning, Booz Allen Hamilton has been involved in some very high profile cases. Candidates will be interviewed on campus or over the phone. BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING . And, let’s be honest here, don’t we all love that his last name was Booz, and that he named the company after himself?

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

As a consultant , your "power" when working with front line employee-type clients comes from your access to senior management, your influence (or perception of influence) over senior management, and your ability to request senior management to exercise their authority to help you accomplish a goal. This is inconsistent.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 17, 2018

Internal and external analyses are performed, interviews with key stakeholders are conducted, and key strengths and opportunities are identified. Strategic planning aims to answer seemingly simple questions but these questions have many moving parts and demand a variety of inputs, exercises and assessments. Where are we now?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 10, 2018

A client (who I’ll call “Alex”) asked me to help him prepare to interview for a CEO role with a start-up. It was the first time he had interviewed for the C-level, and when we met, he was visibly agitated. Caiaimage/Andy Roberts/Getty Images. Let’s go back to Alex as an example of how to execute this.

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Management Consulted

MAY 21, 2015

Candidates will be interviewed on campus or by phone. Having retained the governmental work, keeping the prestigious 100 year old “Booz” name and now exercising its freedom to work with commercial entities working at BAH would definitely be a wise move in terms of exit opportunities. Organization & Strategy. Technology.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

A case in point is WeWork, the provider of coworking spaces, which has grown its enterprise customer base in the last year by 370%. But our research and reporting show this isn’t the case. We’ve separately toured and interviewed principals in more than a dozen corporate coworking spaces in the U.S.,

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 11, 2015

Here at MC, we had the pleasure of recently interviewing Josh and asking him how he’s navigated his interesting career path, and how consulting was a great place for his passions and skills to collide. I was selected to interview at both the NIH and the DoD and subsequently was offered positions in both organizations.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2017

But I am also excited about “stagecraft,” a related approach that fakes a new product or service to get real-life reactions from users early in the development process. In the traditional process, testing with live customers usually does not occur until a product has been fully specced and a prototype has been built.

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Harvard Business

MAY 21, 2018

In most corporate structures, today, recruitment for a position generally means starting with a formal list of tasks — the standardized job description — and hiring someone who can make a convincing case that they would perform each one. We ideated constantly. We had several pushbacks and failures.

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Melissa Agnes

APRIL 11, 2018

Opportunity to develop unbreakable relationships with your stakeholders, build brand trust and credibility in your marketplace, and strengthen your overall culture, productivity, and profitability. One of the things that I love about issue management, is the opportunity that it presents to organizations. This crisis was foreseeable.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

In his 1974 interview with ABC News , science fiction author Arthur C. By spending up to 42 hours researching and interviewing a given candidate, we take great care to ensure that we find and hire the right people. We may have landed on a model that works only in our case, but we suspect that it can work for you, too.

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Chad Barr

DECEMBER 24, 2014

In the latter case, there is zero cost of acquisition and fees are seldom an issue at all. Some people enter because they want to purchase attractive products or services; others because they learn best through listening or watching teleconferences; still others because they read interviews; and some by watching videos on YouTube.

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Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

Interview an expert. Interviewing a potential client. Case studies. Selling productized consulting. By starting your own podcast, and interviewing other thought-leaders in your industry for your episodes, you’ll become a fantastic resource for your industry. Interview an Expert. Video presentations.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2017

What should you say in an interview? This exercise will also likely provide job leads, he says. Interviews will definitely require a bit more care and forethought than they did before. If you were fired because of a personality clash with your boss or coworker, do not, under any circumstances, complain to your interviewer.

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Confessions of a Consultant

JULY 15, 2018

It’s no longer a case of studying hard for 4 years and ‘milking it’ for the next 40. is ‘Straight Talk’ It means what it says – productivity increases in direct proportion to being straight. If that’s the case, you need to find someone external who can provide real feedback. It’s uncomfortable. Embrace it.

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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. They conjecture that their market values might be the sum of the option values of the projects undertaken, a sum of best-case scenario payoffs.

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Confessions of a Consultant

MAY 28, 2017

Being able to run errands e.g. to pop around to the Supermarket – if you need to – decreases stress (and increases productivity). It sounds like a line from Father Ted – but this was actually the case. Higher Productivity: A recent HBR article found that people working from home completed 13.5% I know, I know.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2016

And socially focused companies like Toms, which appeal to consumers with their “buy one, give one” promise, also praise consumers’ purchasing behavior with their altruistic tag (e.g., “With every product you purchase, TOMS will help a person in need”). But do such messages truly promote altruism?

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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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Tsavo Neal

MARCH 20, 2019

As a consultant or small firm, marketing and generating leads is an exercise in discipline. As a consultant, your expertise is your product. Your expertise is a product of your thinking. You can leverage articles, blog posts, podcasts, interviews, case studies, presentations, speeches, videos, or a mixture.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 24, 2013

In a sense, we are actually at relatively low stock prices,” Greenspan, who guided the central bank for more than 18 years, said in an interview with Sara Eisen on Bloomberg Television today. “So-called irrational exuberance in 1996, Greenspan embraced the "productivity. Federal Deficits. Long Term Capital Management in 1998.

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2016

But even without formally testing job candidates or existing team members, you can start to detect innovators during the interview process by crafting questions that target innovation traits: resilience, emotional stability, flexibility, openness to new experience, and empathy. In round 1, people of similar personality types were paired.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2016

The Expertise Trap: Expertise has many attractive benefits, often allowing people to effortlessly exercise excellent judgment and achieve success. Managers must redirect these innate tendencies to win and impress others, so they can channel their people’s competitive spirit into value creation rather than waste production.

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MishTalk

APRIL 6, 2015

In an interview with the Daily Bell that just came my way, Antal Fekete writes about Blowing Up Modern Austrian Economics. Background on Velocity To understand the interview discussion, one must first understand velocity. The simple definition V = GDP/M where V is velocity, M is money supply, and GDP is Gross Domestic Product.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 7, 2013

Case Against The Fed. What’s fascinating about QE is that it has no transmission mechanism to the real economy except as a weak can-kicking exercise - and even then only by creating enormous distortions in pursuit of minute "wealth effects." 2011-04-23: Syndicated Interview on Canadian Radio - My Segment Starts 29:31.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

It boosts bottom-line results , drives growth with new customer insights, and enhances productivity with better talent acquisition and retention. Set “how to gender balance” as a developmental exercise in leadership development programs. Women make up half the U.S.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 24, 2017

For us, growth events mean simply concrete, directly observable achievements that foreshadow future success: for example, new customer contracts, initial export sales, new bank or equity financings, expanded production capacity, or expanded people platforms (e.g. strategic hires). day, scale-focused workshops and related activities.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 22, 2018

Case competitions are amazing opportunities to demonstrate your ‘case cracking’ abilities in front of industry judges, quickly expand your network, and win great prizes. I even started one, which is now one of the largest case competitions in the Waterloo, Canada region. All case competitions are not created equal.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 22, 2020

Interview Transcript: Betsy: Good afternoon. In a restorative approach we would actually look for those causes; which would be stress, nutritional, anti-oxidants, what's the vascular system doing, how much water intake do you have, what kind of exercise do you do. I can see the business case for it. I'm so excited you're here.

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