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Examples of Concluding Your Case Interview (Part II)

Tom Spencer

This article focuses on how to conclude well in your case interview. What I’m going to do in this post is to give two examples of conclusions to the same case interview: one okay conclusion and one great conclusion. It is part 2 of a 3 part series. Okay Conclusion.

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Unlocking a Career as a Marketing Consultant

Tom Spencer

Marketing consultants advise companies on marketing strategies and campaigns. In this article, we will examine 5 strategies that you can adopt to increase your chances of success. Ideal backgrounds include business communication, public relations, marketing, journalism, and advertising.

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Mergers & Acquisitions: Strategy

Tom Spencer

Just this week, two of the largest advertising entities, Omnicom and Publicis, announced a $35.1 Clarifying why your client wishes to undertake the acquisition is a good place to begin, both in a case interview and in a real-life consulting engagement. billion merger.

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Consulting in the medical device sector: A lesson on the importance of sociological know-how

Tom Spencer

Expertise in case studies is considered a given not just among the veterans of business life, but even for newly aspiring consultants, who wish to break into the consultancy industry. The main takeaway from this experience is that the success of a market entry strategy is often based as much on sociology as it is on price competitiveness.

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From Ad Agency & Non-Target School to McKinsey Offer

CaseInterview.com

Second, after college, I got a job at [ ad agency ], a top advertising agency, but not exactly a common (though not unprecedented either) route to management consulting. I led the program strategy for a new practice area at [ the ad agency ], and was covered in the New York Times. I had to learn how to do a case interview.

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Four P’s Analysis

Tom Spencer

Four P’s Analysis is a framework that may prove useful for solving consulting case questions. It can be used to evaluate the marketing strategy for a product. The pricing strategy that a company employs will affect its market share and profitability. There are three key pricing strategies to consider.

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Oath CEO Tim Armstrong Believes in the Promise of the Mobile Consumer

Strategy+Business

In a wide-ranging interview, Tim Armstrong, the CEO of Oath, which owns AOL, Yahoo, the Huffington Post, and other properties, discusses the future of digital advertising and marketing and the business case for a wireless giant like Verizon investing heavily in content.