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

JULY 12, 2015

ABT ASSOCIATES INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. If you pass the initial screening, you will have different in house interview days, possibly preceded by a phone interview depending on your location. Once you get to the face to face interviews, you need to make sure you know how to walk through your resume with precision.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 3, 2016

As a prospective consultant, one of the things that can seem the most mysterious in the case study prep process is wondering what the interviewer is going to ask you next. Many of you have heard about interviewer-led and interviewee-led case interviews and are wondering how to approach each one appropriately.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

I am writing to share a method I have been using for case interview preparation. To try and make the transition from reading/writing to verbalising my cases, I have been using a voice recorder. 2) I have found this to be a good way to internalise the hypothesis -driven methodology in solving cases because it is 'proactive.'.

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 22, 2019

Recently a CaseInterview.com student sent me this case interview practice suggestion about recording and then analyzing your own performance in a case interview. One of my case practice partners told me about it and we have both (separately) purchased it. Then I listen to my own performance on the case.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2012

Launched on 16 August 2012, the SVA Consulting Quarterly is a new online publication dedicated to sharing new ideas, tools and methodologies with leaders, managers, and thinkers in the Australian non-profit sector. Case Interviews. To read the first issue of the SVA Quarterly, please click here. Graduate Consulting Group.

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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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Consulting Matters

APRIL 24, 2020

Interview Transcript: Betsy Jordyn : Hey, it’s Betsy Jordyn of the Consultant’s Institute, and I’m so excited to interview Charles Browne. And our topic today is really focusing on those product companies. And now, somehow things have fallen off the rails, and they want to establish a company. This is really huge.

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Harvard Business

MAY 26, 2017

However, the case centered on two Muslim women who had been fired for refusing to remove their headscarves while on the job, and the ruling was seized on by politicians in Germany, France, and the Netherlands as a “headscarf ban.” Both of these studies used the same methodology to experimentally test discrimination.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. As the COO made another well-deserved toast to Anne, Aliyah thought back to her interviews with Ed and Molly. Meeting Ed Yu. “No problem,” she said. “Of course.”

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Recently, our team interviewed 40 founders and venture capitalists and conducted two experiments to uncover whether startups, compared to more mature firms, are more likely to be the victims of fraud. In our experiments, performed with Christian Schlereth at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management and Craig R.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2017

We focused on experiments performed since 1990, when field studies became more numerous and their methodologically improved. By examining the rates of callbacks, or invitations to job interviews, for white and nonwhite applicants with equivalent qualifications, these studies provide high-quality measures of rates of discrimination in hiring.

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 26, 2020

Or a big thing that we have, consultants, coaches, all of us, is that we have this methodology. We have this Six Sigma process or this particular coaching methodology that we love. We have this methodology. We love our methodology. Then we become these hammers looking for that methodology. We have this approach.

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Management Consulting Prep

APRIL 20, 2020

Consulting Math Consulting Mental Math Up to half of the workload during case interviews, McKinsey PST, and BCG Potential Test is MATH. Saving time in this area directly translates to performance!

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 29, 2018

We love being in the trenches with our clients, a case with every professional services firm. Many consulting firms spend time writing about their methodologies or writing about their own case studies to self-promote. In your case you’ve clearly thought this out very well, you’ve been working through it.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

We chose Brazil’s beef industry as the location of our case study , both for the size and complexity of the industry and for its impact on the planet. Nonetheless, the case study demonstrates that measuring the value of sustainable business can be done, and that sustainable business itself can be cost-effective. million and $39.9

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The Fearless Marketer

MARCH 19, 2018

Instead, the new product is compared to what came before – in this case the “wired telephone.”. Once upon a time (in most cases, hundreds of years ago), these services were new and were touted as something truly different. By proprietary methodologies. But do you recall the brand of this cell phone? By what others say about you.

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Harmonious Workplaces

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Without this expertise, organizations risk making poor hiring decisions, which can cost thousands of dollars or more in each case. Increased Time and Resource Expenditure: The recruitment process can be time-consuming and resource-intensive, involving advertising, screening, interviewing, and negotiating offers.

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Jerry Fletcher

MARCH 27, 2021

And the worst part is our guide may not recall blurting out the methodology or special ingredient or whatever secret should have remained so. For instance, the interviewer in a pod cast asks how you accomplished a turnaround for a client or what process was used to save multiple clients. It happens.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

The saying “You only have one chance to make a first impression” holds true in many situations, from job interviews to sales calls. That advice is easier preached than executed, of course, so Clark suggests, “using the methodology of power posing [before the meeting] to tamp down your cortisol levels.”

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QEmploy

MAY 9, 2019

Interviews have been conducted with clients and consultants in order to give a realistic and broad outlook. It was also said in our client interviews that there are too many brokers out there. The terms, conditions and contract details are taken up during the interview process. This is where agile methodologies come in.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 4, 2019

When I first started recruiting for consulting jobs, an interviewer at Bain shared a story (arguably a legend at this point) about how Bain (or it might have been McKinsey) was asked to advise Motorola on whether or not they should enter the mobile phone market. In classic case study analysis, you’d ask them, "What are the market segments?"

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Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2017

Godbout: I have yet to see the case study of massive change management of innovation where a group of people came in and, like a whirlwind, changed everyone’s thoughts and executed the whole thing themselves. So that is not a methodology to build buildings. At that point people were coming in…with a firefighter mentality.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Question: I recently completed six interviews with BCG and am about to receive my offer to join them as a Project Lead. I found your case study videos very useful, as is the one-page framework handout, to prepare me for the interviews. It's a good trade.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 28, 2015

Tom: Does Cartesian use the case interview in its recruitment process? How many interview rounds are there? However, the candidates are not fully judged on obtaining the correct answer, but rather the methodology with which they approach the scenario. There were two rounds of interviews. Adam Fraser: Yes, they do.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The irony in this case is that Italy pleads for far shakier accounting than Brussels. Italy has accused the EU of using “shaky” methodology to evaluate countries’ fiscal policies, raising the stakes ahead of next week’s first verdict on the budgets of eurozone member states by the new European Commission.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

But that’s just not the case. Yet in a one-on-one interview he confided that he saw no future for his ambitions at that firm. Part of the problem is that “diversity” and “inclusion” are so often lumped together that they’re assumed to be the same thing.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 9, 2016

For products that are truly new, without peers, the value-based pricing methodology won’t work well. In our case, the only differentiated feature of Brand A is its larger screen size. To accomplish this step, marketers typically use research methods like conjoint analysis or qualitative customer interviewing.

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Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

A great deal of research — using methodologies such as resume studies and other models — has found that employer discrimination and prejudice plays a large role in creating this gap. In the case of consumer discrimination, some customers may prefer not to interact with minority workers.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 4, 2016

This is confirmed by my follow-up interviews with these leaders, which revealed that these internal transitions can be every bit as tough as onboarding, involving combinations of promotions and moves to new units or new geographies, as well as dealing with different cultures and political networks.

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Jerry Fletcher

MAY 8, 2021

In most cases the answer will be that some metric in the sales equation is off. This interview is about getting as much information as you can from the prospect as possible. Meeting name. Don’t call it a Discovery meeting or chat or whatever. Start by determining the primary problem that has caused them to consider your services.

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Martinka Consulting

OCTOBER 27, 2017

One of my roles was being on the team interviewing the critical (and very expensive) ESOP advisors. In every case the answer was, “the valuation.” Methodologies : The second red-flag topic is the improper use of valuation methodologies. It is their job to make sure, among other things, the valuation is fair to both sides.

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Comatch

JANUARY 19, 2022

When you hire a consultant, ask them about their methodology for solving problems. That being said, case studies, testimonials, and the names of past clients can all help you to see the bigger picture when it comes to a potential consultant. Further, ask them how they might go about teaching these processes to your internal team.

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LSA Global

JULY 15, 2024

Use a combination of interviews, training needs assessments , focus groups, win/loss reviews, and sales simulation assessments to identify what matters most for sales success. The most impactful sales training is grounded in proven, research-backed methodologies that are tailored to today’s buyer expectations and selling environment.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 24, 2017

In contrast, our scale up methodology assumes that selfless contributions of time and resources – donating blood, if you will – for growth can only go so far. We taught journalists how to interview entrepreneurs and elicit their stories of growth.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 18, 2015

KEARNEY INTERVIEW AND CULTURE. 1997 – First Global Prize, an annual business school case study competition for potential recruits, awarded. Kearney boasts about its Fit Transformation™ methodology, designed specifically to align companies’ strategy, operating model, and people to bring lasting transformation.

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Sometimes great things can happen very quickly, but in many cases you want to have that mindset for the long-term. We’ve invested a fair amount of time getting to know each other and getting aligned around methodology and how we think about clients. We have capacity when we oversell. We have been asked by a potential client.

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