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Defense, then Offense

CaseInterview.com

The reason this occurs is that these two things happen in a recession: First, some opportunities get destroyed (think: airlines, hotels, restaurants). Think Zoom video conferencing; they grew from 10 million to 300 million meeting participants in five months. In your market, this might be a product opportunity. economic history.

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Sample Consulting Case Questions

Tom Spencer

Your client is a low-cost airline headquartered in Philadelphia with frequent service to cities along the East Coast of the United States. How should it price this product? It is currently summer, and Cabana is having trouble meeting demand. What is causing the decline in profits? What can we do about it? Entering a New Market.

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Thinking Like a Consultant: People Skills

Management Consulted

However, one of the most unnerving things about strategic consulting is that you’re supposed to be able to increase productivity across this very same landscape without respect to the size, type, and complexity of the client. Teamwork, and the ability to work with ANYONE in a team, is a critical trait to demonstrate in key interviews.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

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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Case Interview Example – Capacity Change Framework

CaseInterview.com

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. ea, I will do it.

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The Knowledge Jobs Most Likely to Be Automated

Harvard Business

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? At the level of a national economy, however, how much should we protest this particular line of labor dislocation?

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How Winning Organizations Last 100 Years

Harvard Business

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. Test 11.

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