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Consulting Case Interviews at Non-Consulting Firms

Tom Spencer

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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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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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

Have an upcoming Oliver Wyman interview? Retail and Consumer Products. And, of course, their claim to fame, Financial Services , is broken down into even more practices including: Finance and Risk. Retail and Business Banking. Corporate and Finance and Advisory. OLIVER WYMAN INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING.

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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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