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Mergers & Acquisitions: Strategy

Tom Spencer

MERGERS have had a ubiquitous presence in the news recently as leaders in the airline , publishing , and telecommunications industries have taken steps to consolidate. 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.

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Entering a New Market

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. Furthermore, this engages you in a conversation with the interviewer as opposed to enduring an uncomfortable silence. This is also a good time to explore details about the product and pricing.

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Crude Plunges Following OPEC Decision to Not Cut Production

MishTalk

Nonetheless, and in spite of falling prices and pleas from Venezuela to restrict production, OPEC decided to take no action. The group maintained its collective production ceiling of 30 million barrels a day, Ali Al-Naimi, Saudi Arabia’s oil minister, said yesterday after the 12 nations met in Vienna. Brent crude dropped as much as 8.4

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Minto Pyramid Principle

CaseInterview.com

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? Example 1: Company A faces profitability issues, please come up with strategies. . Hypothesis 1.1.3 – We can introduce a new product.

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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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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. Pricing Strategy. How should it price this product? Growth Strategy. They want to develop a growth strategy for the next five years. What is causing the decline in profits?

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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.