Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

So, a few minutes into your case interview, the recruiter slides a chart across the table and asks what you can tell from that particular exhibit. Hence, I would like to share some best practices for tackling these charts during a case interview. Not practicing basic case interview mathematics. Knowing the exhibit. Revenue = 2.

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Case Interview Interviews How To Data 88

Management Consulted

MARCH 2, 2014

In this video series, we compare the firms using 6 different metrics: Branding/prestige. Interviews. There are 3 different tiers of consulting firms – Top 3 Firms, Big 4 firms, and Tier 2 firms – and there are pros and cons for working at each level. Curious to know what they are? Salary/compensation. Exit opportunities.

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Oliver Wyman Video Consulting Deloitte 139

Tom Spencer

APRIL 11, 2021

It seems like coaching is a necessary part of the consulting interview prep process and without it you don’t have a chance of getting an offer. A coach can be a peer who is prepping for consulting interviews, a person willing to offer their time who has a consulting job, or someone who does coaching full time. When to seek out a coach.

Case Interview 88

Case Interview Interviews Benchmarking Sports 88

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

Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

Our research considered several other ways to measure corporate culture, such as collecting anonymous employee feedback on websites like Glassdoor, conducting interviews with retired or former executives at the firm, and noting the firm’s involvement in scandals.

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Metrics Study McKinsey Cash Flow 100

Harvard Business

MARCH 10, 2017

To understand this, I interviewed 150 psychologists, economists, and business leaders around the world. I wasn’t able to find every single metric for every single company, but the results were still striking. But what does that mean, and what does it look like? times as often in Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work, 2.1

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Clarity Consultants

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Organizations can make informed decisions about their training needs by analyzing metrics, conducting surveys, and gathering input from management. Anonymous surveys, interviews, and focus groups provide valuable insights that can guide future adjustments, ensuring training remains aligned with employees’ evolving needs.

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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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Case Interview Interviews Metrics Analysis 60

Tom Spencer

AUGUST 10, 2019

Like a consulting interview, a product manager (PM) interview consists of multiple parts, including a case study and a behavioral portion, which looks for communication, management, and prioritization skills. Thus, it is vital to ask product-related questions in a PM interview. What’s the interviewer looking for?

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Interviews Productivity Case Interview Fashion 60

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

We’ve separately toured and interviewed principals in more than a dozen corporate coworking spaces in the U.S., In interview after interview, community managers stressed the importance of members’ initiative, openness, curiosity, and trust, as well as esprit de corps , or what one called “family spirit.”

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Company Case Interview Engineering ROI 128

Management Consulted

JUNE 11, 2017

Tip : Be sure to include metrics wherever possible! You want to make sure your resume is top-notch and consulting-worthy – as well as make sure that your resume not only helps you land an interview invite, but also helps you during the interview. How much money did you raise? How many people did you lead?

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Resumes Consulting Interviews Leadership 124

Harvard Business

APRIL 9, 2018

Over the two-week period, I received 64 messages related to media interviews, podcasts, and webinars I had agreed to. to fill out in advance of the interview. Agreeing to a podcast interview is never just an hour, and agreeing to promote a colleague is never just one email. Using that metric, only 10.5%

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Case Interview Exercises Interviews Metrics 132

Management Consulted

APRIL 9, 2017

A recommendation from a consultant will fast-track your application inside the firm, and in fact will take it through an entirely different path, virtually guaranteeing you a first-round interview invite. You know how important your resume is in getting your foot in the door for an interview. Actually, your resume is all-powerful.

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Cover Letters Resumes Consulting Management 113

Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2017

“Conduct exit interviews with all departing customers” became “reduce the customer attrition rate,” for example. All too often, a new change spends its first few quarters being undermeasured because the existing suite of metrics the organization uses haven’t been overhauled to reflect the new priorities.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 20, 2020

This is one of the reasons that I insist on my clients tracking their key performance indicator metrics. 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.

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Case Interview Interviews Resources Policies 105

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 26, 2016

Interview Tips & Tricks. Uber looks for and only hires the best, so be prepared to be asked what makes you stand out when you go in for your interview. First off, you can expect to connect with a recruiter for a general phone interview. At Uber, all coding interviews are done with CoderPad.

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Culture Case Interview Interviews Transportation 100

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

We interviewed over forty successful leaders from a variety of organizations (corporate, non-profit, startup), across different industries. For example, when Seraina Macia (one of the leaders we interviewed) joined XL Insurance in 2010 to head their North American Property and Casualty unit, it was a stable, but slow-growth business.

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Leadership Handbook Healthcare Emotional Intelligence 132

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

For organizations interested in the promise of data, we offer five principles for using statistical algorithms to aid the personnel selection process: Pick the right performance metric. Often the right metric will be a combination of characteristics. This means you need to be very clear about how you define success. Other Interests?).

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How To Metrics Resumes Data 70

Management Consulted

MARCH 22, 2016

engineers, med students, JDs, post-docs, interns, practicing MDs or residents, these magical BCG and McKinsey consulting seminars are crash courses, extended job interviews, and sell weekends all rolled into one. 3 – Too long and not metrics-driven. Aimed at Ph.D.s, Can you guess a really easy way to show you can do that?

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Resumes Consulting McKinsey Metrics 100

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2016

We surveyed and interviewed executives from more than 2,000 companies, asking extensive questions about how they develop leaders, how their companies are managed, how they coordinate their work, and what their organizational culture looks like.

Leadership 134

Leadership Deloitte Culture Pharmaceuticals 134

CaseInterview.com

JULY 23, 2020

It’s important to be constantly monitoring key performance metrics so you can tell what’s going on in your business quantitatively. Yes, the metrics say they are happy but are they really actually happy?) I also have them improve their situational awareness of their own business. Did we generate the number of leads we were expecting?

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Case Interview Metrics Interviews Resources 71

CaseInterview.com

MAY 9, 2020

If your business suffers in a recession because you had poor financial metrics, you’ll learn (the hard way) why you need them and need to look at them regularly. Members get access to 6 hours of video tutorials on case interviews , the actual frameworks I used to pass my interviews, and over 500 articles on case interviews.

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Case Interview Interviews Policies Resources 76

Harvard Business

MARCH 10, 2017

One business-to-business supplier dealt with similar questions by combining metrics from Workplace Analytics with other sources that measured factors that, we hypothesized, might improve sales performance, such as cross-selling new product categories. We learned that top performers did a few things differently.

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Sales Software Productivity Data 129

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Great stories are credible, simple, consistent, and use both financial and nonfinancial metrics to link a long-term vision and firm values with a distinctive business strategy and focused operational priorities. ” Many CEOs in our interviews emphasized the importance of choosing the right metrics to support both/and decision making.

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Metrics Study Financial Operations 111

Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

A more thoughtful approach to an artificial intelligence platform might comb through the company’s resources to produce condensed dossiers on sources, including the contact information of Tronc reporters who have interviewed those sources before. Managing for Metrics Rather than Mission.

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Data Journal Media Video 109

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

I have now interviewed hundreds of actual entrepreneurs — including founders of Amazon, Apple, Biogen, Boston Scientific, iRobot, Netflix, PayPal, and YouTube — as well as new venture and innovation leaders in large companies like Disney, Target, Toyota, and Coca-Cola. Fly-your-own-plane-to-your-own-private-island-level wealth.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Consultants are very risk averse and are very hyper focused on issues like GPA and other metrics – not because they are a perfect indicator, but because there are a decent indicator of whether or not somebody is going to be able to manage work that sometimes is really exciting, and sometimes kind of mundane. Definitely.

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Consulting Resumes Bain Recruitment 125

Harvard Business

MAY 9, 2017

Two employees interviewed by the New York Times ultimately quit. Rather than hiding pay information or making it accessible without context, organizations would be better off forming transparent performance metrics, matching pay to those metrics, and having open conversations with employees about where they stack up.

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Data Sports Metrics Case Interview 108

Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

Since then, we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks who follow technology companies. CFOs of these companies themselves admit that they cannot justify their market capitalizations based on traditional metrics.

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Financial Report Cash Flow Metrics 75

LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Agreed upon strategy success metrics. Assessed the Current Situation Reviewed previous business plans, employee feedback, and key processes Conducted 360-degree interviews with key stakeholders Conducted leadership decision making session 2. Clear roles and responsibilities. Perceived barriers to success.

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Talent Metrics Leadership Training 68

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Take this opportunity to educate other teams in the organization by clarifying how the team was able to successfully leverage data to validate the demand in this new vertical — from setting up customer interviews, to tracking responses in a spreadsheet and reviewing them as a team. Install a TV showing a few data dashboards.

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Data Sales Case Interview Meeting 127

Successful Independent Consulting

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

It’s also likely that the person interviewing you is super busy, so they’ll want something they can easily skim before talking with you. 6 new global process owners clearly identified and now accountable for monitoring process metrics to support the shift to a continuous improvement culture.

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Consulting Examples Case Interview Fashion 150

Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2018

” Metrics were developed to monitor these, and targets were set before moving on. That is, what the organization wanted from employees. Once it adopted the six-step method, these outcomes were identified as “reducing employee turnover and increasing productivity and innovation.”

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 1, 2024

The more work you ask a candidate to do—at any point in the interview—the more you're asking for free work or consulting. See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter.) Mark Kilby and I developed a self-study Remote Interviewing workshop you might like. See Can Auditions Be Too Much of a Good Thing ?)

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Consulting Interviews Resumes Agile 77

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Leaders are intimately involved in the architecture, culture, and metrics of the company, hiring people who can innovate and grow a business and holding them accountable with a minimum of midlevel management. The senior leadership team meets often to look at metrics and trends. What’s unique about this company’s leadership?

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Leadership Metrics Operations Culture 70

Johanna Rothman

APRIL 1, 2024

Luke Pivac, a colleague from New Zealand, interviewed me last week. Here's the video: We discussed several topics: My recent Unemployed Agilists posts. That link just goes to the first post) My most recent book: Project Lifecycles: How to Reduce Risks, Release Successful Products, and Increase Agility.

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Agile Video Interviews Productivity 89

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Create a balanced scorecard of physician performance that tracks not only productivity but also professional development, team building, safety and quality metrics, timeliness of care or access, communication skills, and care coordination — measures that matter to patients. A Way Forward.

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