Tom Spencer

JULY 6, 2013

Your client is a low-cost airline headquartered in Philadelphia with frequent service to cities along the East Coast of the United States. Furthermore, this engages you in a conversation with the interviewer as opposed to enduring an uncomfortable silence. What is your recommendation? Is it strictly profit related?

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Martinka Consulting

JUNE 2, 2021

At the gate, two airline employees came onboard to escort a young couple off the plane. The couple was being “interviewed” by the police as we crossed the gate area. Later I was walking out behind the couple and the cops and heard one of the cops say they don’t enforce mask wearing but passengers have to adhere to airline rules.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 11, 2019

This way I can show the interviewer I am 100% hypothesis driven and I don't ask any irrelevant data. Would you recommend this and what is your view about this as a past interviewer? Student Question: Recently I came across a book called 'The Minto Pyramid' , you might know this book, by Barbara Minto, ex-McKinsey.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

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. 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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Management Consulted

JUNE 26, 2016

Today, we continue Part 2 (see Part 1 here ) of our interview with Charlie, an experienced Harvard grad who took an unusual path into healthcare consulting, yet leveraged his experience and hard prep work into an offer at Putnam. And so when I ask questions during an interview, I can ask “What’s the size of your firm?

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Management Consulted

JULY 15, 2015

Besides some of the traditional benefits that most employers offer, like 401K and stock options, some of the additional Virgin perks are pretty cool – like being able to fly for free on their airlines, subsidized cost of other Virgin company services like mobile service, railway service, gym memberships, etc.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 1, 2020

The reason this occurs is that these two things happen in a recession: First, some opportunities get destroyed (think: airlines, hotels, restaurants). 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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Tom Spencer

JULY 2, 2015

Your client is a low-cost airline headquartered in Philadelphia with frequent service to cities along the East Coast of the United States. Emirates Airline is considering signing an agreement with Ben and Jerries Ice-cream, which would allow them to serve several flavours of ice cream on Emirates flights. What can we do about it?

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Consultant Ninja

OCTOBER 13, 2009

'll be taking readers through the whole interview process this year. 2010-Present: Off the road 2009 Stats: Airline Miles: 24,902 Nights away from home: 73 (of 216: 34% of nights) AMEX Charges: $21,220 2008 Stats: Airline miles: 87,589 Nights away from home: 159 (of 365: 43.6% October 14, 2009 at 2:49 PM. Anonymous said.

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Melissa Agnes

JUNE 3, 2014

There are two reasons that made “United Breaks Guitars” a crisis for United Airlines, rather than an issue: Remember! In this particular case, within 4 days of the video being posted to YouTube, United Airlines’ stock price fell 10%, costing stockholders about $180 million in value.

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Melissa Agnes

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

To make matters worse, a recent study released by Massachusetts Senator, Ed Markey, states that only two out of sixteen auto manufacturers interviewed are proactively working on ways to react and respond to this sort of life-threatening hack. you absolutely need to be assessing, preventing and planning for the risk of a hack. Think about it.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

As we were looking through your responses, we realized you were answering as if you were in an interview – and that’s smart. These days, it pays to practice being in “interview mode” so you’re ready for the real thing – whether it’s networking with a neighbor at Starbucks or sitting in the hot seat.

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Consultant Ninja

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

One would think a Greggian disconnect like that would come out during the interview process. 2010-Present: Off the road 2009 Stats: Airline Miles: 24,902 Nights away from home: 73 (of 216: 34% of nights) AMEX Charges: $21,220 2008 Stats: Airline miles: 87,589 Nights away from home: 159 (of 365: 43.6% Anonymous said. Analysis. (40).

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MishTalk

JULY 23, 2014

Wednesday, at 2:28 EST Reuters published an exclusive interview with Alexander Khodakovsky of the so-called Vostok battalion - or eastern battalion: Khodakovsky Acknowledges Rebels had BUK Missiles. It appears to me Reuters may have stretched this interview quite a bit. I knew that a BUK came from Luhansk.

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Management Consulted

JULY 5, 2015

If you’re outside the industry looking in, prepare LOTS of interview stories that demonstrate teamwork and all that comes with it – conflict resolution, communication, and the power of groupthink. Teamwork, and the ability to work with ANYONE in a team, is a critical trait to demonstrate in key interviews. 2 – Networking.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

"If there are sanctions related to the energy sector, or further restrictions on Russia''s financial sector, we will have to respond asymmetrically," he told Russian daily Vedomosti, adding the airlines of "friendly countries" were allowed to fly over Russia. "If This is not the way to go.

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Consultant Ninja

JANUARY 20, 2009

I would never accept his answer in a case interview from a candidate; I would interrupt the candidate, and press them on why they think thats a reasonable assumption. I interview analysts, and the ones I hire are the ones who are detail oriented, and get the numbers right. Every assumption is based upon a logical and discussable fact.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

“If the plan was to calm the bondholders, then burning through a third of that money in five working days doesn’t do it in any way,” Henkel Garcia, director of Caracas-based consultancy Econometrica, said in a telephone interview. Nonetheless, inflation already exceeds 60% annually.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 29, 2018

Though you accrue oceans of hotel, airline and credit card loyalty points, these are consolation prizes for what can be a tough lifestyle if you are travelling week-in, week-out for months on end.

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MishTalk

MARCH 29, 2015

In an interview with the bestselling German tabloid Bild, the 26-year-old flight attendant, known only as Maria W, said that they had separated “because it became increasingly clear that he had a problem”. They fly daily over Afghanistan and Iraq but also over heavily trafficked airspace where they fly high above commercial airliners.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 21, 2019

I've had several requests to provide an example of a case involving the Capacity Change Framework as described in my case interview frameworks article. I did 60+ case interview questions and never saw this case even once. From an interviewer's point of view, this make this kind of case a bad one. Because the "answer" $5.99

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2018

This can come from a variety of sources including: in-depth interviews of stakeholders, listening to stakeholder stories about their experience with you and the competition, feedback via your complaint and suggestion systems, focus groups and even casual conversations with stakeholders.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 24, 2014

“The current environment is potentially very toxic for emerging markets,” Eamon Aghdasi, a strategist at Societe Generale SA in New York, said in a phone interview yesterday. Venezuela Reserves In Venezuela, the government devalued its currency for airline tickets and incoming foreign direct investment on Jan.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Members of the hospital’s design thinking team were inspired by something they saw when they boarded a KLM Airline flight: During a pre-flight huddle of the cabin crew, team members introduced each other and then asked each other two questions on flight safety.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 2, 2014

“In general, if you are in an uncertain world, make it simple,” Gigerenzer said when I interviewed him earlier this year. What they found surprised them. Along those lines, Gigerenzer has been working with the Bank of England to come up with simpler rules for forecasting and regulating financial markets.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 19, 2018

Wilson was an industry outsider (he had previously worked as a management consultant and the head of corporate planning at an airline), whom Stemberg described as a “provocateur” and an “in-your-face kind of guy.” So founder and CEO Tom Stemberg hired John Wilson as head of strategy and chief financial officer.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

Usually we don’t love getting that question, because the answer isn’t the simple one interviewers are seeking. Which kinds of knowledge workers are at high risk of job loss thanks to smart machines?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 14, 2017

We conducted in-depth interviews with decision makers, including the CEOs or the senior executives responsible for sustainable development, and researched the company’s strategies and outcomes. Our primary findings are reported here. Some were more focused than others.

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Harvard Business

MAY 19, 2016

In an interview with The New York Times, Dr. Michael Anderson explains that he uses ADHD (a diagnosis he calls “made up”) as an excuse to prescribe Adderall to the children who really need it — children from impoverished backgrounds suffering from poor academic performance. — and work performance.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 24, 2016

By adding airmail planes to its fleet, in addition to servicing the rapidly expanding market for commercial airlines, Boeing saw sustained post-war success. Interview Tips & Tricks. Relative to this, you might have to answer interview questions about diversity in the workplace. Prepare for interviews.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Our surveys, research and extensive interviews suggest that this sense of mission fades first and fastest at the upper and middle layers of the company as they become diluted with professional managers.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

We got under the skin of each organization, to understand how they live and breathe, by interviewing people who work (or worked) with them, observing them in action and reading everything about them. We spent five years interviewing thousands of people, making thousands of observations and reading hundreds of documents.

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 9, 2019

Within several months, I had a call from a past co-worker that a start-up airline called Virgin America was looking for a Vice President of Marketing. After several interviews, and many reference checks with contacts in my network, I was offered the position that ultimately changed the course of my career.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 6, 2019

Anything you don’t get to see on the company dime, you can still probably see for free – just in exchange for a portion of your accumulated airline and hotel points. Ian currently offers one-on-one coaching sessions to help you nail your consulting interview. Expect to be a high flying frequent flyer (and stayer). Bad #3: Pressure.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2016

.” And yet the lean startup methodology, born in Silicon Valley as a way for startups to tune in to customer needs with limited resources, has been gaining major momentum inside big companies like General Electric, Alaska Airlines, Telefonica, 3M, and W.L.

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants

DECEMBER 12, 2012

I am restructuring a company and had to interview all staff members of. During the interview, she unwrapped the lolly and started to.fellate it. Many thanks to Alert Crazy Consultant "Catherine" for the hilarity. the HR dept. They knew that many would be terminated. One woman arrived. She was holding a tootsie-pop.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 25, 2018

Our research , based on interviews with 89 Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees and their managers a decade after 9/11, suggests that increased monitoring can lead to a cycle of increasingly coercive surveillance. What’s less obvious, though, is what other behaviors such surveillance might promote.

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