Management Consulting Prep

APRIL 24, 2020

Case Interview Tips & Techniques How to conduct a Case interview In this trend nowadays, professional coaches are more and more expensives, and consulting jobs are more and more competitive, the skill of CONDUCTING a case interview is needed more than ever.

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Case Interview Interviews How To Trends 52

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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Case Interview Study Interviews Marketing 68

Tom Spencer

MARCH 2, 2019

The fundamentals of doing well in a case interview are pretty well known and accessible. It is essentially everything that is in the case interview bibles of Case In Point or Hacking the Case Interview. First, you have to have solid casing fundamentals yourself.

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Case Interview Interviews Consulting Examples 60

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Specializing in economic, financial and market analysis, specifically for cases in litigation, Cornerstone Research touts itself as the one player major law firms turn to when navigating the obstacle course that is the American and European legal systems. Cornerstone Research specializes in working with law firms and government entities.

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Interviews Research Culture Case Interview 100

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

Tom Spencer

MAY 26, 2018

The way to analyse links in the value chain is to: Compare the same link in a value chain over time to identify trends, Identify and examine complementarity between one link and others in the same value chain, and. Supply: For many manufacturing cases, inputs are materials from suppliers. Case Prompts.

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Case Interview Interviews Analysis Productivity 68

Tom Spencer

MAY 10, 2021

Many candidates spend numerous hours perfecting their resumes, preparing for case and technical interviews, and crafting their fit story. Conducting due diligence on the company you are interviewing for will help you build rapport with the interviewer, learn the firm’s culture and values, and showcase that you did your homework.

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Interviews Research Company Case Interview 88

Tom Spencer

JANUARY 5, 2019

Today I’m going to talk about a very important aspect of the case interview, which is your conclusion to the case problem. So just as you begin the case interview itself by structuring a nebulous business problem, you’re going to want to structure your conclusion as well. Data supported arguments.

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Case Interview Interviews Metrics Analysis 60

LSA Global

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Employee Experience encompasses the entirety of an employees journey with the organization from recruitment, to interviews , to new employee orientation all the way to exit interviews and offboarding. It also involves the workplace environment and the quality of interactions with managers and peers (e.g.,

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Strategy& Strategy Strategy Case Interview 67

CaseInterview.com

APRIL 4, 2020

I’m told there’s a saying on Wall Street that goes, “The trend is your friend.” To survive, and even thrive, in today’s environment, it’s vitally important to notice and respond quickly to major changes in trends — in particular, changes in customer demand. They’re adapting to the trend. However , the trend has changed.

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Trends Case Interview Airlines Interviews 76

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

FTI CONSULTING INTERVIEWS & CULTURE. The firm has made up for its youth, however, by growing rapidly through innovation, famous cases and a lot of acquisitions. the consulting firm started off like a lot of American startups do – in a small, forgettable warehouse somewhere on the outskirts of town (in this case, in Annapolis, MD).

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Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Simon Associates

MAY 4, 2022

It's not hard to see that the changes of tomorrow are coming fast (in many cases, they're already here), disrupting everything we thought we knew. For both employers and employees, the pandemic was the catalytic moment that transformed where and how we work, but the trends were there beforehand.

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Trends Case Interview Interviews 72

CaseInterview.com

JUNE 11, 2019

This caseinterview.com student sent me an email recently asking my advice on how they could practice and improve their performance in the problem-solving part of a case interview. First of all, many thanks for all your information and encouraging words on case interview preparation . Reader’s Email. My Response.

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Case Interview Interviews How To McKinsey 49

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

Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

On top of regular life commitments, you also must spend time on preparing applications, practicing for interviews, and partaking in the interviews themselves. With such a busy schedule, it can be tough to find a partner to practice cases with. The idea is simple: Identify aspects of the case interview that you are weak on (e.g.

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Case Interview Interviews Recruiting Recruitment 88

CaseInterview.com

JUNE 11, 2019

The following is an example of a real-life case a student received and my advice on how to go about solving the case step by step. Question: I have a question regarding a case I had in an interview with AT Kearney last month. My question is how would you proceed with this case? Is it cyclical?

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Case Interview Examples Interviews Energy 40

Harvard Business

JANUARY 4, 2018

About Our Research The major components of our research included: Analyzing the results of nearly 800 existing scientific studies to understand how previous researchers defined self-awareness, unearth themes and trends, and identify the limitations of these investigations. But this doesn’t have to be the case.

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How To Case Interview Research Study 192

Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Interviews. After going through a handful of interviews through referrals, direct reach out from HR/hiring team, and LinkedIn/company website applications I would categorize my interviews into three buckets: Corporate strategy. In terms of the interview process it followed the following steps: HR interview (fit).

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Interviews Case Interview Strategy& Strategy 68

Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

What have been the prevailing trends in the industry? Marc Consentino in his book Case In Point suggests the following possible actions for a company turnaround. The person with the best response will win a copy of Marc Consentino’s Case In Point or another book from the Bookshelf. Why is the company failing?

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Turnaround Case Interview Comparison Interviews 111

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

It’s not alone in trying to jump on the trend of shared workspaces, of which there are now around 19,000 worldwide. 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.

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Company Case Interview Engineering ROI 127

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Polling data shows that many believe these lingering conflicts represent the actions of a few bad apples and aren’t in sync with the larger trend toward systemic racial equality. What do we know about long-term trends in racial discrimination? The line shows the overall trend. Are these beliefs accurate?

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Trends Study Case Interview Methodologies 134

Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 15, 2021

They don’t know what careers in consulting firms look like and what are trending consulting career trajectories. For most MBA students, they won’t get an interview offer unless they have done some level of networking with practitioners at the firm, be it via Consulting Club events or backdoor channels. Behavioral and Case Interviews .

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Case Interview Consulting Recruiting Recruitment 88

CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 31, 2019

As an avid follower of your teachings in LOMS and principles on case interviews in general, let me share what I think are the 3 biggest reasons for getting an MBB offer. I strongly believe that it's not about what you know going into the interview. And that's exactly what case interviews are like.

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Interviews Case Interview Bain Management 45

Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

But the trend – based on the firm’s academic history – has also been that employees would exit to study further to get perhaps an MBA or Ph.D. ZS ASSOCIATES INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. After applying through any of these options, expect to receive an email in two weeks scheduling you for a phone interview.

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Case Interview Interviews Sales Pharmaceuticals 100

Tom Spencer

APRIL 11, 2021

First you learn the elements of a case interview, memorizing frameworks and implementing strategies. These interviews are relatively short and focus mostly on applying skills. The parallel to group projects are case competitions. These projects offer multiple benefits over the case interview and case competition.

Consulting 88

Consulting Case Interview Analysis Interviews 88

Harvard Business

APRIL 16, 2018

Cautiously, we called it problem-led leadership, and launched into all the interviewing, case studying, and literature review that goes into a leadership research project. In an interview after her talk, she is pressed again to describe the role she plays in her ambitious projects and she pauses to reflect.

Leadership 134

Leadership Case Interview Talent Case Study 134

Tom Spencer

JUNE 30, 2015

The second stage of a consulting case question, after setting it up, is to solve the problem. Here are six (6) tips for successfully tackling a case question: Find the source of the problem – You might get asked a question such as “Profits have declined, what should we do?” (Source: Flickr ). What’s been happening in the economy?

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Case Interview Consulting Interviews Trends 60

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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Case Studies Case Study Study Case Interview 129

Harvard Business

JUNE 5, 2018

Yet, unfortunately, this does not appear to be the case. On the corporate side, working professionals apply only about 15% of what they learn in many corporate training and development programs in many cases. The corporate e-learning space has grown by nine times over the last 16 years , such that almost 80% of U.S.

Productivity 137

Productivity Case Interview Training Training 137

Tom Spencer

JUNE 17, 2013

The trend towards the prevalence of management consulting in the public sector most recently has been seen in the city of Detroit, Michigan. Case Interviews. Get Email Updates (It’s Free). -- Australia’s premier consulting blog. Graduate Consulting Group. Categories. Select Category. Business Frameworks. Business Strategy.

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Consulting Boston Consulting Group Government Case Interview 116

Harvard Business

JUNE 29, 2016

Bringing light to Africa , mobile banking to Bangladesh , low-cost health care to Nepal, or better school lunches to the American cafeteria: In all these cases, the private sector is a big part of the action. That social entrepreneurs can make a difference is not in question ( here are dozens of examples). — money.

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Talent Enterprise Survey Recruiting 133

Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

That was when I participated in my first formal case competition and had the opportunity to speak with industry representatives and recent graduates about their career choices in consulting. Afterwards, my curiosity grew and I took the initiative to participate in other case competitions and business plan competitions.

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Recruiting Recruitment Case Interview Consulting 78

Tom Spencer

MARCH 3, 2023

This might include taking relevant courses or workshops, participating in case competitions, or working on personal projects. Prepare for the interview process: People advisory consulting interviews may include both technical and behavioral components, and it’s important to be well-prepared.

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Consulting Case Interview Talent Interviews 88

CaseInterview.com

AUGUST 12, 2020

A few weeks ago, I posted the following real-world situation as a case competition: You’ve been hired by an industry association representing the 3,000 colleges located in the United States. I was hoping to select a winner who really cracked the case in terms of structuring it well. Case Structuring = Case Solving Plan.

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Case Interview Interviews Financial Survey 64

CaseInterview.com

AUGUST 15, 2019

As a former consulting resume and cover letter reader for McKinsey, and someone who has reviewed thousands of applications, I have noticed an interesting trend. If your cover letter is good, from the perspective of the person reading the letter, I want to interview you -- basically I am biased in your favor. Here's why it works.

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Cover Letters Resumes Case Interview Consulting 53

Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

All begin with an online application, but Bain accompanies its application with a test; BCG has a test at its first-round interview and McKinsey requires you to take a test at an approved test centre as a separate stage. This tends to be followed by several rounds of interviews. Big Four: EY, PwC, KPMG and Deloitte. Boutique firms.

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Consulting Case Interview Interviews Bain 60

Harmonious Workplaces

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Job seekers report on peer-support calls and during networking meetings that they have had their interviews postponed or canceled. Candidates who may have undergone two, three, or even six rounds of interviews may find that they must now wait to see if organizations actually fill the positions, much less whether they will have a job.

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Recruiting Recruitment Talent Case Interview 96