Consulting Matters

AUGUST 15, 2019

Interview with Rachelle Stone. I’m super excited to have an opportunity to interview Rachelle Stone, one of my favorite Consultant Institute members, almost graduate. What made you decide to leave your corporate job and start your own consulting business? You are a consultant that also coaches.

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Clarity Consultants

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Ensure data collection methods are consistent and repeatable for future comparisons. The Role of L&D Consultants in Maximizing Long-Term Impact of L&D Initiatives Expert L&D consultants bring invaluable experience and insights to the table.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 18, 2015

KEARNEY INTERVIEW AND CULTURE. Now known to be THE best sourcing, procurement and operations consulting firm in the world, A.T. Headquarters: Chicago, IL Employees: 3,200 Locations: 58 offices, 40 countries Chief Executive: Johan Aurik, Managing Partner and Chairman of the Board Revenue: $1B Consulting Engagement Cost: $400K.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 14, 2021

Launching a management consulting career is a daunting task due to the competitive nature of the profession. Applying for a job entails completing online questionnaires, writing cover letters, and undergoing psychometric assessments before you are even invited for an interview. Source: Consultancy.org. Attend a Top College.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

My work on the show was frankly boring, but I interviewed the news anchors and field reporters. I spent the summer reviewing literature on malaria as a clinical disease, the different phases and symptoms of malaria, and interviewing patients about the treatments they used. I lived in Washington, D.C.,

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Similarly, in traditional management consulting roles, employees often utilize the latest tools to solve their clients’ problems, often without considering the impacts beyond the client themselves. PMs also work directly with the industry and community partners, requiring slightly more of a time commitment in comparison to the innovators.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 20, 2019

An MBA degree has long been known as a robust pathway towards accessing management consulting career options. Yet, what about other graduate degrees in comparison to an MBA? The short answer is that people have done it, but it is often more difficult to break into consulting from another graduate degree program compared to an MBA.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

By comparison, rivals Amazon and Wal-Mart have continuously adapted and maintain a significant competitive advantage in pricing these products due to scale. Case Interviews Management Consulting' RadioShack had developed a reputation as the ultimate shopping destination for budding innovators and engineers.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 4, 2015

Welcome to our Consulting Salary post – the kickoff to 2015! As you’ve been busy popping bottles of champagne, watching the ball drop while fireworks shoot up in the background, or just flat-out ambitiously working through the New Year holiday, we here at Management Consulted have had our version of fun. Number hungry?

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

I have been practising case interviews for over two months now, however, I always get a little tense when I am doing the cases. I actually made it to the final round with a top consulting firm but was told that I came across as a little nervous and was rejected. So this is why confidence in cases and in consulting is important.

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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. This is really important and it has an obvious insight for case interviews, which is that the conclusion you provide can have an incredible weight on your interviewer’s perception and memory of your performance.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

We recently chatted with Peter Woo, a graduate from the London School of Economics, to talk about his journey into consulting and life at Deloitte. He took an interesting pathway to get into consulting, and he dishes great info about what it was like to break in – and how life REALLY is on the inside. Peter : Yeah, sure.

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Jerry Fletcher

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

What makes it more important is the ongoing comparison of results it affords the viewer and the efforts of the company to find and report on those points where the findings begin to diverge from previous norms. In the 2004 study23% of the people interviewed said they would trust someone just like them. Diverging Trust.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 18, 2018

Student consulting would seem to most students as an obvious first step towards a career in consulting. However, Sam Smith has recently argued in the post ‘ Student consulting – Does it deliver? This results in a misplaced comparison between the abilities of an experienced consultant and that of a student one.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

The one-on-one format can create a more conversational, interesting, and intimate experience, and has the added benefit that the CEO or luminary being interviewed theoretically doesn’t have to prepare as much. Despite how effective interviews can be in theory, however, they are often difficult to execute in practice.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

In a competitive field like consulting, it’s important to stay ahead of the game if you want to have an advantage over the many similarly qualified candidates. The Big Four are accounting firms which have consulting branches, and thus they are structured differently to other consulting firms. Boutique firms.

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CaseInterview.com

APRIL 12, 2019

Here's my comparison of consulting in a Big 4 Accounting firm and at BCG (note from Victor while this readers experience is specific to BCG it can. Consulting in a Big 4 accounting firm is all about. Below is a field report from a reader of mine who recently started working at BCG after a year at a Big 4 Accounting Firm.

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 22, 2019

Below is a success story I recently received from a CaseInterview.com student about the success they had using a set case interview practice routine. Initially, not everyone realizes this is an important part of the interview to practice. The same is true for case interview practice.

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Today’s guest is Mindy Millward, a veteran consultant with over 20 years of experience from Navalent. You may remember my guest Ron Carucci, from episode 21, who recommended Mindy as an outstanding and insightful consultant, and he was right. The Mindset That Wins Consulting Work With Fortune 500 Companies with Mindy Millward.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Especially if your first job is management consulting as you will be presented with many opportunities to jump into industry. Consulting was the perfect role to allow me to adopt this mindset and it opened my eyes to areas I never imagined I would enjoy. The question of when to leave your first or second job is intimate and messy.

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Ben de Haldevang

MARCH 21, 2017

A first for iROAM (inarticulate Ramblings of a Management Consultant)! I have asked my co-inteviewer to give his perspective on the interviews we conducted. Abhay Pande made some comments below which I wanted to share with you. These two aspects reveal themselves over the course of our discussions.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Always keep in mind WHAT exactly you are trying to solve or find, always do a recap, always ask the interview to explain something once again if you are confused, even slightly. Remember: the math is never complicated during your case interviews , it’s actually easier compared to, say, GMAT. Finally, you should look like a consultant.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

If you find case interviews painful, you definitely don’t want to be a consultant. It’s not that these careers — surgeon, professional baseball player, therapist, physicist, consultant — are bad careers. If you lack warmth and empathy, you don’t want to be a therapist. If you hate math, you probably don’t want to be a physicist.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

I have recently received feedback from my final round interviews at McKinsey, and have been told that they would like to interview me two more times because they were not clear on some of my case solving abilities. I have studied your LOMS program extensively and have tried my best during my interviews to implement all your advice.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 11, 2021

If some of your goals are currently way out of reach, start on the path that is robust in comparison to the objective. Research is also essential when going into job interviews. Doing some research on who will be interviewing you can also significantly boost your chances of getting hired. Do your research. Look for ways to grow.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Question: Thank you for creating the Case Interview Secrets videos and Look Over My Shoulder ® program. My question is related to note-taking during the interview. What I am struggling with is keeping up with the interviewer, and still trying to note down key facts. So, if in a profitability case, I explore cost and sales.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Individual and group comparisons are available. About LSA Global Founded in 1995, LSA Global is the leading performance consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps high growth technology, services, and life-science companies create a competitive advantage by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with their strategy.

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CaseInterview.com

APRIL 29, 2019

Being insightful in a case interview is an important skill, especially as you get in more competitive environments (like a final round interview). And the final insight, which is probably the one most valued internally amongst consulting firms, is the "we are focusing on the wrong problem" type of insight. 2) Avoid a Negative.

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MishTalk

JULY 8, 2013

By this comparison only 2012 looks anything close to a normal recovery year. Wallace charts show non-adjusted numbers vs. the same month in prior years, and that is a valid statistical comparison. Lets also look at seasonally adjusted numbers vs. the prior month, also a valid comparison. Consult your. Prior Year.

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CaseInterview.com

APRIL 18, 2019

BCG (Boston Consulting Group) potential test is an online test used in the first round of interviews. This test allows BCG to test candidates using the same test giving them a better comparison tool for evaluating candidate performance. What is the BCG Potential Test and Why is it Used? What is the format of this Test?

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

It is something you must pay attention to as a new consultant. Incidentally, this is why consulting is a relationship business. In comparison, an equally skilled consultant from a different firm could say the exact same thing and have it be taken negatively by the client. Let me give you some examples.

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Brimstone Consulting

MAY 3, 2021

In comparison, only 24% of leaders who reported not feeling used up said they had to leave to advance, and only 6% expected to leave their current company within the next year. In a BBC interview with Kate Morgan, Maslach said : “There’s that old saying, ‘if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 3, 2013

World’s lightest and thinnest circuits pave the way for "imperceptible electronics"; Man vs. Machine Comparison. For comparison purposes, a Facebook video shows " Humans are Awesome ". World’s lightest and thinnest circuits pave the way for "imperceptible electronics"; Man vs. Machine Comparison. Consult your.

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 30, 2019

I received two offers recently and have also been given offer deadline extensions for them until later this week, which I had requested as a way to "buy" time: 1) to hear back from other firms I interviewed with, and 2) for the final round interview with my top-choice firm this week. some will speed up the process for you.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 15, 2021

BCG (Boston Consulting Group) potential test is an online test used in the first round of interviews. This test allows BCG to test candidates using the same test giving them a better comparison tool for evaluating candidate performance. What is the BCG Potential Test and Why is it Used? What is the format of this Test?

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Tom Spencer

JULY 16, 2015

The Three C’s Framework may prove extremely valuable for consulting case questions. For more information on consulting interviews, please download “ The HUB’s Guide to Consulting Interviews “ ]. (Source: Flickr ). It involves examining customers, competition, and the company.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 11, 2019

There is a simple principle the underlies the relationship between client and consulting firm. In the business of consulting , there is one major arbitrage that you should be aware of. In short, what clients are really buying is confidence … paying consulting fees to transfer confidence from the consultant to the client.

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