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An Insider’s Look at The Case Interview Scoring System

Management Consulted

Sandy Lerner, co-founder of Cisco Systems, once summed up consulting interviews perfectly when she said, “The first rule of any game is to know you’re in one.”. In the research you’ve been doing into the wild world of management consulting, you should have noticed how important the case interview is on your road to a job offer.

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Consulting Case Anatomy – A Simple Breakdown

Management Consulted

As a prospective consultant, one of the things that can seem the most mysterious in the case study prep process is wondering what the interviewer is going to ask you next. Many of you have heard about interviewer-led and interviewee-led case interviews and are wondering how to approach each one appropriately.

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Duke University undergrad prepares for BCG Interview Superday

Management Consulted

Ramit is a junior at Duke University who successfully aced his on campus interview. However, he did receive some puzzling feedback from his interviewers, leading him to contact Jenny Rae to guide him through how to use the input constructively for his final interview on site at BCG. I thought I bombed the case.

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How to Assess Entry-Level Product Manger Positions

Tom Spencer

If you have views on on-boarding, shaping, and training young product managers, you can effectively mold these programs to fit your vision. Here are some questions to ask your recruiter, interviewer or APM coordinator: How long has the APM program been around? How many cohorts have graduated from it? How big is the average cohort?

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How HR Can Become Agile (and Why It Needs To)

Harvard Business

Agile espouses short cycles, regular reflection, and course correction based on evidence collected during the software production process. To prove this, ING made every employee at its headquarters (nearly 3,500 people) re-interview for their job. In fact, in many cases the employees’ skill sets were still highly relevant.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” Some examples of these competencies include: Conducting customer interviews and user testing. Defining and tracking success metrics. Aron Vellekoop Len/Getty Images. Company Fit.

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business

To look into this question, I conducted a case study as part of my dissertation research involving 23 women of color at a Fortune 500 company. Sixteen women were interviewed and seven others participated in a focus group. This said, training alone will change nothing if managers aren’t held accountable for culture and talent.