CaseInterview.com

JUNE 13, 2019

I was recently sent this email from a student who has upcoming interviews with Bain and McKinsey asking me to clarify some details on my profit loss framework below is his question as well as my response. in the interview process, generally we simplify the process to assume the two are the same. Read Our Privacy Policy.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Question: Thanks to the material proposed on your website as well as to a lot of practice sessions with my friends (I don't have a business background), I managed to successfully pass my first round interview with BCG. 2) Creativity in how to analyze a case. They are thinking of killing the project due to slow sales.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 4, 2020

Generate $1 in sales within 90 days from this new revenue source.”. My client thought to himself, “Shoot, even my 8-year-old son can generate $1 in sales from a lemonade stand on a Saturday afternoon. Surely my entire team and I can generate $1 in sales in a quarter.”. It took them roughly 75 days to get that first $1 in sales.

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CaseInterview.com

AUGUST 15, 2019

In preparing for the case interview, there are a few skills and tools that you can master to help you succeed. In this chapter, you will learn what these tools and skills are and how you can utilize them to help you perform at your best during the case interview. Case Interview Math. Case Interview Math.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 28, 2013

Booz & Company Interview and Culture. So you have a Booz & Company interview coming up, and you want to be the best candidate they see? Working for the federal government implies a longer sales cycle, but more secure cash, whereas private sector clients could decide in February they will stop a project in March.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 20, 2020

and 2) What were our sales yesterday? If you found this post useful, I suggest becoming a registered member (it's free) to get access to the materials I used to pass 60 out of 61 case interviews , land 7 job offers, and end up working at McKinsey. Read Our Privacy Policy. At the simplest level, is business good or bad?

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

I believe it has advanced my case cracking skills significantly. Those are of great help as well, especially the ones about "how not to feel nervous on the interview" and "how to get the most from the LOMS" and other tips. What is the best way to summarise/remember the case interview question ?

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 26, 2019

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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Case Interview Interviews Resumes Retail 81

CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

In one of my early McKinsey engagements, I was assigned to conduct 1:1 market research interviews with the client's top customers. For example, I have expertise in the case interview. Yet, much of what I write and teach about these days isn't directly related to the case interview. This isn't an accident.

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 13, 2021

A question I am asked often is how to utilize all of the various frameworks and advice on frameworks out there on other case interview prep sites? It is very hard to remember a lot of case study frameworks… let alone master all of them. At this point, we need to figure out WHY unit sales have fallen.

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CaseInterview.com

APRIL 17, 2020

In the case of the patient above, their heart is racing (when it shouldn’t be), they’re breathing too fast (as if they’re running, even though the patient is at rest), and the oxygen level in the blood is dangerously low. In this case, the patient needs supplemental oxygen and immediate transport to a hospital for a higher level of care.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

This can occur if sales drop drastically, and you didn’t see it coming. It can also occur when sales accelerate suddenly, and you didn’t see that coming either. Scenario 1: Direct Report: “Sales went up 20%, unexpectedly…”. Scenario 1: Direct Report: “Sales went up 20%, unexpectedly…”. Read Our Privacy Policy.

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JULY 23, 2020

If sales and retention are on target, but you have no cash left in the bank, something is wrong. If you found this post useful, I suggest becoming a registered member (it's free) to get access to the materials I used to pass 60 out of 61 case interviews , land 7 job offers, and end up working at McKinsey. No, Thanks!

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CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

More important than memorizing the main case frameworks is the ability to take your hypothesis and build an issue tree (or customize a standard framework) that will test your hypothesis in this specific case. Using Issue Tree’s in a Case Interview. Your Hypothesis. The MECE Test. Basically, everything they can think of.

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CaseInterview.com

APRIL 22, 2020

Each public health department's objective is to reduce COVID-19 cases in their county. Nobody can say, “I am responsible for the Victor Cheng case. In the case of U.S. One county can initiate a record and, using workflow rules, route parts of the case file to other jurisdictions digitally. Answer: Nobody.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Employees are offered an unlimited vacation policy, 4-month paid maternal/paternal leave and company-wide movie and game nights to allow individuals to bond over common interests. In case you hadn’t noticed, the benefits are exceptional, and the pay is above-average as well. Interview Tips & Tricks.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 4, 2019

For that same staff member, I mentioned earlier, I told him on day #1 as his boss, "Get me $16 million in sales out of North America in the next 12 months. Finance people do not see the sales and marketing implications of their “finance” decisions. Read Our Privacy Policy. Figure it out. The plan is negotiable. No, Thanks!

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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). There’s no problem,” but your sales team knows that sales fell by 50%, they will scratch their heads.

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CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The company had suffered a 40% drop in sales. Business A can be profitable if it grows revenues enough to cover the non-product-related operating costs (such as sales, marketing, customer service, finance, and human resources). Check out our Privacy Policy below for details on how we protect and manage your submitted data.

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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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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 21, 2020

This is why interviewers value “insights” in the case interview. The old way of thinking: “We are better than our competitors, so we should be winning sales.”. It turns out that all of their sales and marketing materials were geared toward the message, “why buy from us vs. another direct competitor.”.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

If you’re not great at sales, find someone who is. If you find case interviews painful, you definitely don’t want to be a consultant. Check out our privacy policy for details on how we protect and manage your submitted data. If you’re not great at finance, hire someone who is. Email Address *. Unsubscribe at any time.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

In a recently published paper in the Academy of Management Journal , we explore how major business corporations translate the grand challenge of climate change into strategies, policies, and practices over an extended period of time. We get back to core stuff.”

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In many cases, the only decision I could make was to simply decide on the next step. This is the big difference between working with established companies with $500 million in sales versus a completely new startup. Check out our Privacy Policy below for details on how we protect and manage your submitted data. A: Nobody knows.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 13, 2019

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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Case Interview McKinsey Interviews Insurance 40

CaseInterview.com

MARCH 10, 2019

Facing rejection from consulting firms is an emotional topic especially with the time and effort candidates put in preparing for the case interview. I applied at the top consulting firms , and was rejected from MBB (I was not even offered interviews with them). In these cases, it means you did not do well on the case.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 13, 2019

You can perform better in a consulting interview by having an upfront preview of what types of questions might be thrown your way. Profitability cases directly tackle the amount of money a business is generating. They can also refresh their sales and marketing approaches. 3) Pricing. 4) New product. For example: .

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 25, 2019

Some thoughts/observations on the BCG Internship interview process below, which might be of interest to you (although I imagine you get a lot of these!). I think the key thing is that as soon as the interviewer stops, you (the candidate) need to continue onwards with the case unless they pull you another way. I had an L.E.K.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

We’ve seen a wide range of cultures, processes, and attitudes about employee privacy, and learned that in every case there are seven key points that need to be addressed for any internal predictive analytics initiative to be successful: Find a sponsor. In a few cases, business objectives can’t be met with anonymous data.

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

Let’s see how the tenets might apply to three very different cases, each containing substantial risk. I interviewed Sara, Steve, and Nicole for my book, Even the Odds: Sensible Risk Taking in Business, Investing, and Life. Steve’s case was a bit different. Right-timing. Relying on knowledge and experience.

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JULY 18, 2019

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The way I acquired the necessary skills was done in four ways and over three months: 1) Getting consultants to give some cases. 3) As I did not have any access to practice partners, it was amazing to listen to cases (4-5 times) and it worked! The point of LOMS is not to memorize the specific choices made in specific cases.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 16, 2015

The Three C’s Framework may prove extremely valuable for consulting case questions. Key barriers to entry might include capital requirements, economies of scale, network effects, government policy, switching costs, access to suppliers, access to distribution channels, product differentiation, and proprietary product technology.

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MishTalk

JUNE 24, 2014

Iraq is obviously falling apart,” he told CNN''s Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview. State Department confirmed the delivery, criticizing the semiautonomous region''s unilateral sale without Baghdad''s approval and warning buyers of its oil. Everything is collapsing – the army, the troops, the police.” “We Nor is pressure.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2017

” Left unchecked, biases can also shape a company or industry’s culture and norms, says Iris Bohnet, director of the Women and Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School and author of What Works: Gender Equality by Design. Standardize interviews. “Seeing is believing,” she explains.

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Harvard Business

MAY 9, 2017

On one hand, such a policy can guard against discriminating along racial, ethnic, or gender lines while giving people a firm grasp of where they stand in an organization. While sports are different from other industries in many respects, baseball makes a good test case for this kind of study for several reasons.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 24, 2019

What follows is case interview preparation tips from a CaseInterview.com student that received 2 MBB offers without live practice and a follow-up from me where I offer more advice on the proper mind-set for case interview preparation. 2) Read a lot about consulting. 3) Listened again and again to LOMS.

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