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Consultant Ninja: Classic Consulting Quotes. (Chapter 4, Part 1.

Consultant Ninja

In front of him is a pile of resumes, culled off of monster.com, of people who currently or recently worked at a particular division of a major CPG company, on behalf of the client, another competing CPG company in the same market. His goal; to ferret out their trade spend as a % of sales and their sales organizational structure.

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Consultant Ninja: Classic Consulting Quotes (Chapter 4, Part II.

Consultant Ninja

Timmy, the 21-year old analyst from Carnegie Mellon, has nearly exhausted his list of resumes to call. Hes absolutely hammered the sales and marketing division of a particular CPG all week, calling ex and current employees in his quest to dig up the competitive intelligence information the engagement manager has asked him to collect.

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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. Then, underneath three of these sub-subsidiaries are, you guessed it, more subsidiaries, such as Seabury Airline Planning Group LLC and Seabury Maritime Corporate Finance LLC.

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Does Your Company Know What to Do with All Its Data?

Harvard Business

New car sales reflect the health of automobile manufacturers and are of great interest to investors. But manufacturers release sales figures monthly — an eternity for investors. Since each sale requires a new insurance policy, the number of new policies issued each day provides a faster indicator.

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The Easiest Way to Solve a Case Interview

CaseInterview.com

In my disastrous first interview, I was asked a question on how to grow sales of additional luggage of an airline in a very short period of time. For example, client wants to "improve sales" vs. client wants to "improve profits" are two very different things. Let me give you an example to make my question sound more clear.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

For instance, we examined predatory pricing in the airline industry and illegal product tying by Apple, Microsoft, and AT&T. ” “I was working in a wine shop during my undergrad and started to realize that I was able to close more sales by being a trusted advisor to my client rather than acting like a sales rep.

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants: Use Whoever's On The Bench

The Crazy Lives of Consultants

Lots of people are aware of the old "bait and switch" perpetrated by the Big Firms: Show up with Mr. Incredible during sales, then staff the project with Jane and Joe College once the contract comes in. Ive been asked to "massage" the resume of various dead wood staff, adding my own bullet points to their skimpy skills.