Remove Interviews Remove Study Remove Turnaround
article thumbnail

MC Coach Interview: My First Year at McKinsey

Management Consulted

Because of this, we sat down with consulting veteran Lisa Bright (who is now part of the MC interview coaching team!) The school I was at isn’t one of McKinsey’s core schools, so I had to do a lot of reading online to prepare for the interview, get accustomed to case interviews and stuff like that. That was rough.

McKinsey 100
article thumbnail

The consulting case study: What you need to know

freshminds

Why are Case Studies used? Note that they are not looking for a “right answer”; they are looking for a “right method” Types of case studies. Here are some examples of different approaches across industries; Management Consulting : tend to use “operational” type case studies (more details below).

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How Organic Wine Finally Caught On

Harvard Business

Through historical research and many interviews, we found several ways in which early stumbles in the organic wine market created marketing problems that the industry still struggles to overcome. The Turnaround. Why the difference? ” Organic wine was not strongly embraced by distributors and retailers, either.

Chemicals 126
article thumbnail

Student Consulting ? Does it deliver?

Tom Spencer

This may include discrete projects completed at arms length, such as due diligence on a transaction, or turnaround projects where consultants are embedded within an organisation. Not because the experience itself was a deal-breaker, but because people with student consulting experience rarely succeeded at interviews. Image: Pexels.

article thumbnail

4 Ways CEOs Can Conquer Short-Termism

Harvard Business

The CEOs in our study were adept at telling their company’s story. CEOs in our study repeated their companies’ stories often and consistently to all their stakeholders — employees, boards, customers, business partners, communities, and the general public. . Adopt a Both/And Performance Mindset. Has something changed?’

Metrics 111
article thumbnail

Leading Across Cultures Requires Flexibility and Curiosity

Harvard Business

When I was heading Organization and Management Development at Pepsi International, I would encourage our international executives to study local comedy shows. The research involved conducting and coding 88 in-depth behavioral event interviews of leading change with 65 leaders, spread across multiple industries and from across five continents.

Culture 70
article thumbnail

PE Firms Are Creating a New Role: Leadership Capital Partner

Harvard Business

We interviewed roughly 30 LCPs to get a sense of how this new role is shaping up. Most of the LCPs we studied began with the task of ensuring the PE firm itself had the right talent, culture, and leadership, and then moved on to do the same for portfolio companies. The LCP’s Role in the PE Firm.