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Inside a Fortune 500 Boardroom

CaseInterview.com

In contrast, my favorite boardroom belonged to a clothing retail chain in California during the Great Recession of 2008. If you know finance, especially the finance of retail businesses, that’s nearly impossible. I had never heard of a retail business with such high profit margins. but was still profitable!

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PARADE Method

CaseInterview.com

The PARADE Method (tm) is an approach to answering resume-oriented job interview questions. It is an approach I developed that is tailored for answering these questions in job interviews for management consulting, as well as interviews for senior executive positions in industry. Interviewers want to know what you did.

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Each Firm's Favorite Cases

CaseInterview.com

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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Retail Sales Rise in Germany and France, Decline in Italy

MishTalk

Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. Case Against The Fed. Retail Sales Rise in Germany and France, Decline in Italy; Margin Squeeze in Germany and France. Its a mixed bag of retail PMI news in Europe today (assuming of course one believes that spending is good). Home Builders. Key points.

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Coronavirus: Analysis, Conclusions & Takeaways

CaseInterview.com

1) Sample-Size Problem As of March 5th, 4 pm ET, the United States had: Total Cases: 164 Total Deaths: 11 Friends of mine have said, “Why is everyone freaking out over 11 deaths?” Only 164 cases, that's not bad compared to other countries." The closest proxy metric that’s easy to measure is # of NEW cases today vs. yesterday.

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Big Miss in Retail Sales vs. Expectations; Trend Change or Another

MishTalk

Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. Case Against The Fed. Big Miss in Retail Sales vs. Expectations; Trend Change or Another "Soft Patch"? Retail sales were up 0.4% May retail sales were revised lower, to +0.5% Retail sales excluding autos and gasoline unexpectedly fell 0.1

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Deep Dive into Customer Segmentation (Part 1 of 2)

Tom Spencer

Drawing new retail concepts (e.g. To understand the target customers on this level, methods such as focus groups, surveys, interviews, and case studies can be successful. For example, the finance team is able to confirm whether new customer growth has increased in the target segments. brick-and-mortar vs online).

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