Strategic Planning and Management Insights

AUGUST 17, 2020

Brad was a part of several major project at Microsoft, including the complete turnaround of MSN.com, leading the marketing effort for Windows 2000, Windows 98 and Internet Explorer, as well as developing and executing the award winning marketing strategy for Windows 95. SME Strategy ·.

Interviews 52

Interviews Turnaround Strategy Strategy 52

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Functional experiences help make you great at something, i.e. marketing, supply chain, R&D. You’ve not only been a great marketer in one region, but proven that you can lead marketing when you have a new team, in a turnaround situation and in a different geography. Request an interview. Build your map.

Turnaround 70

Turnaround Interviews Development Management 70

Tom Spencer

JULY 2, 2015

Entering a New Market. A large Korean electronics company is thinking about entering the market for tablet computers. Toyota has invented a car with incredible durability, it can be driven a thousand times further than cars currently on the market before needing to be serviced. Estimate the size of the global market.

Consulting 60

Consulting Turnaround Case Interview Retail 60

Harvard Business

JULY 27, 2016

” Little did I know that over the next 10 years I’d be part of the biggest corporate turnaround in global history. Over this period, Apple would prove the cynics wrong and dazzle the world with its groundbreaking innovations, masterful marketing and against-the-grain approach. PR played a huge role in this success.

Turnaround 70

Turnaround Media Report Interviews 70

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.

Case Interview 81

Case Interview Interviews Resumes Retail 81

Tom Spencer

JULY 13, 2019

They are known for doing high-level assessments of their clients’ business situation, and providing strategies to increase profit or growth by entering new markets, launching new products, or making acquisitions. Some of the most notable specialisations include healthcare, IT or tech, and turnaround consulting.

Consulting 60

Consulting Turnaround Healthcare Deloitte 60

Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

I dubbed it “contact marketing,” and found it to be a surprisingly effective marketing technique. Based on my interviews, reported response rates averaged from 60% to 80%, with some campaigns actually hitting 100%. What exactly is contact marketing? But his core business is turnaround consulting.

Meeting 70

Meeting Turnaround Sales Marketing 70

CaseInterview.com

MARCH 16, 2020

With the media, stock markets, and social media going crazy over the topic, I spent a lot of time digging into the data to develop my own conclusions. When I’m not teaching about case interviews and working with clients, I volunteer and train as an emergency medical responder. It’s still useful to help make sense of the problem.

Analysis 144

Analysis Case Interview Interviews System 144

Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2016

And on the rare occasions when you do land an interview, you stumble over questions about what you’d bring to the hiring company and why you’re the perfect fit. So how can you make your resume, profile, and interview more effective? How to Get the Most Out of an Informational Interview. You and Your Team Series.

Resumes 70

Resumes Interviews Cover Letters Recruiting 70

Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

GIA provides strategic market intelligence and advisory services anywhere around the world. Monitor addresses all the problems that are involved in growth: strategy, marketing, pricing, innovation, product development, organization, leadership, economic competitiveness. Case Interviews. 88 Hing Fat Street, Unit 1902. Categories.

Oliver Wyman 107

Oliver Wyman Strategy Strategy& Strategy 107

Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Alpha Financial Markets Consulting. Alpha Financial Markets Consulting. Founded in 2003, Alpha Financial Markets Consulting is based in the UK and also has offices in Luxembourg, Paris and NY. A&M specialises in turnaround and interim management, performance management and business advisory services. BearingPoint.

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BearingPoint Capgemini Strategy Strategy& 99

Harvard Business

AUGUST 11, 2017

We interviewed roughly 30 LCPs to get a sense of how this new role is shaping up. Increasingly, in addition to the standard interviews and team meetings conducted by deal teams, PEs are conducting more sophisticated, data-driven evaluations of a target’s leadership and culture risks and opportunities.

Leadership 72

Leadership Talent Culture Turnaround 72

Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2016

I’ve interviewed thousands of candidates for managerial roles and tracked the performance of those I successfully hired. This company, which stretched into all sorts of industries and markets, offering numerous strategic challenges, should have been an ideal training ground for executives. But that potential had been squandered.

Turnaround 70

Turnaround Leadership Engineering Case Interview 70

Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2016

Plenty of theories have been put forth to explain Yahoo’s failures, as the company seeks a buyer following a failed turnaround attempt. In 2011 we were playing a bit of catch-up compared to the market. One of the most prominent is that Yahoo was late to mobile. That said, it was a very dramatic shift in company focus.”

Turnaround 70

Turnaround Data Operations Company 70

Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Volvo’s turnaround over the last decade offers a great example. Its cars didn’t match up well with those of top luxury brands like Mercedes, BMW, and Audi, yet the company lacked the capacity to compete with mass-market leaders like Toyota and GM. For years, Volvo was a brand stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Talent 72

Talent Engineering Case Interview Turnaround 72

freshminds

MARCH 5, 2018

Investment banking case studies are a lot more quantitative and tend to focus on reading financial statements and based on a corporate finance deal e.g. a company going public on the stock market. The Ivy Case is a system created by a Harvard professor who coached students for interviews at top-tier consultancies such as McKinsey.

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Case Study Case Studies Study Case Interview 53

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Since 2009 we have interviewed and surveyed 181 executives who run PE-owned companies, as well as eight to 15 people who work with each of these 181 executives (supervisors, board members, director reports, and others). In fact, management consultancy Bain & Co.

Company 70

Company Engineering Turnaround System 70

Harvard Business

APRIL 4, 2016

He had spent his entire 14-year career at the company, had worked hard, and had rapidly climbed the ranks in sales and marketing. The culmination was his promotion to business unit leader for Plastic Resins, one of the company’s best-performing units. He inherited a strong team with a proven track record.

Turnaround 70

Turnaround Chemicals Study Company 70

Buzzsprout

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Every monthly plan comes with unlimited podcast hosting with Buzzsprout and a guaranteed 48-hour turnaround time. The team combines technical knowledge with creativity, producing interview-style podcasts, storytelling dramas, and lots in between.

Productivity 52

Productivity Company Engineering Turnaround 52

CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In the case interview process for McKinsey, one of the early evaluations is “Solve,” McKinsey’s digital assessment game (formerly called the McKinsey Problem Solving Game). How do you produce the fastest turnaround time for new orders given a certain number of employees in a work shift?

McKinsey 52

McKinsey How To Data Strategy 52

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

We then conducted a series of in-depth individual interviews, delving into pivotal experiences in their personal history and career progression, and using Korn Ferry’s executive online assessment to measure key personality traits and drivers that had an impact. Women could be ready for the CEO role sooner. But what else did you do?

Interviews 72

Interviews Benchmarking Case Interview Talent 72

ConsultX

AUGUST 10, 2021

A one-stop turnaround plan, Conquer the Chaos lays out a complete path to make your business run smoothly and provide you with the freedom you desire. Ries, coauthor of The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing , gives clear examples from a variety of industries and demonstrates how crucial focus can be. But take heart!

Consulting 52

Consulting Small Business Video Ethics 52