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Seabury Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Founded in 1995 by former Bain consultants and headquartered in New York City, they focus on developing airline strategy and implementing major operational turnaround. In fact, one of our interview coaches, Michael Hecht, used to work for The Seabury Group and now works for Delta Airlines as a member of their Skymiles team.

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The Trend Is Your “Friend”

CaseInterview.com

Most life, career, and business plans operate on the premise of continuing the underlying status quo. I received a message just now from someone who works in the airline and cruise ship industries. Given that mindset, what do you do if you run an airline or a cruise ship business? It’s certainly one strategy. Here’s why.

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How to Build a Strong Client Relationship

CaseInterview.com

In these cases, just connecting the work you are doing to these concerns (and showing how they are related for better or for worse) is perceived as valuable. For example, I am writing this post from the airport where Alaska Airlines (the only major airline with a hub in Seattle) had a computer system outage.

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Sample Consulting Case Questions

Tom Spencer

Below we provide a selection of sample consulting case questions. Your client is a low-cost airline headquartered in Philadelphia with frequent service to cities along the East Coast of the United States. Pricing Strategy. Growth Strategy. They want to develop a growth strategy for the next five years. Operations.

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Here’s Why Strategy Chiefs Succeed or Fail

Harvard Business

Why is that some companies have great heads of strategy who make an outstanding contribution to their companies while others don’t? To answer this question, we evaluated a sample of 55 different heads of strategy and looked more closely at 11 who were particularly successful and 10 who were at the other end of the spectrum.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

The prize for best answer was a FREE Consulting Case Bank and The Consulting Bible 3rd edition – a HUGE giveaway – so we weren’t surprised when we heard from so many of you. As we were looking through your responses, we realized you were answering as if you were in an interview – and that’s smart.

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6 Steps to Make Your Strategic Plan Really Strategic

Harvard Business

Why is it that when a group of managers gets together for a strategic planning session they often emerge with a document that’s devoid of “strategy”, and often not even a plan ? ” The latter is a list of actions interspersed with a sprinkling of desired results, all utterly useless in terms of strategy.