Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 1, 2018

For top-tier consulting firms, there are two primary marketing efforts – the first, marketing to attract entry-level recruits, is quite visible. Instead, marketing materials take the form of thought leadership: reports designed to show potential clients that these firms have the expertise clients need. .

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

When it came time for interview season, I didn’t have to look hard for case prep partners, as many of us were recruiting at the same time. Thus, they were able to give lots of guidance during my own internship search and were members at the firm when I was recruiting for full time. Giving Back to your Community.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 27, 2019

As addressed in my article from last week , non-MBA graduate students face a comparatively more challenging journey in their quest to enter the management consulting industry. Are you actually competitive for a consulting role (consider your academic history, professional experience, as well as social and leadership skills)?

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 26, 2023

In this case, you may determine that gaining market share will be your client’s biggest challenge. This may involve traveling to the client’s site to collect data, interview employees, and examine daily operations. There’s an article in Bloomberg Business Week that outlines how the strategy consulting industry began.

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 31, 2019

I probably put in over 100 hours preparing , and only about 80 of those were for the case, I believe those additional 20 hours of prep for the experience portions helped put me over the top when competing with other candidates from more target schools. Basically, to get interviews, network, network and then network some more.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 7, 2019

The traditional route is to apply and go through the standard interview process as an MBA summer intern or post-MBA consultant. However, there aren’t a lot of sources out there that cover the non-traditional way and that is something you will learn about in this article. First Step: Getting the Interview.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 7, 2014

. BRIDGESPAN INTERVIEWS & CULTURE . In 2003, Bridgespan created the “Bridgestar” initiative to focus on leadership development and to help professionals transition into nonprofit careers. Leadership Program: Leading for Impact. Leadership Effectiveness. KEY STATS FOR BRIDGESPAN. Funding Strategy.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 28, 2013

Booz & Company Interview and Culture. So you have a Booz & Company interview coming up, and you want to be the best candidate they see? He began by helping firms recruit competent executives, acquire new customers, and establish conducive office space. We want you to nail it. Organization and Change. Program Management.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 1, 2013

Have an upcoming Oliver Wyman interview? The firm offers consulting services including strategy, operations, risk management, organizational transformation, and leadership development. Oliver Wyman actively recruits for internships at target schools, and interns are typically in their junior/penultimate year of university studies.

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CaseInterview.com

JULY 18, 2019

Leadership Development. 4) The Leadership Development practice works on the people side of businesses. Typically, Oliver Wyman focuses on developing the leadership of top executives using approaches such as coaching, experiential learning, and use of online learning platforms. Financial Services Consulting.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 13, 2019

What you will learn: Learn what skills you need to display in a case interview in order to impress your interviewer. The skills that they are looking for can differ between interview formats,types, and rounds. Topics Covered: Interviewer’s Mindset. How to Prep for Candidate-Led and Interviewer-Led Interviews.

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Management Consulted

MAY 10, 2015

His mantra formed the foundation for Hay Group’s new attitude towards leadership. In 2005, the Hay Group was asked to provide the research for Chief Executive Magazine’s “Best Companies for Leaders” In 2008, “Senior Leadership Teams” an article written by Hay Group staff members was published by Harvard Business School Press.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

Doing a few things will put you on track for advancing high up the leadership ladder. There are typically multiple layers of leadership in a department, which offers more possibilities for promotion but also can be frustrating to deal with. Generally, the main focus of department leadership is billable hours. Social Media.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 29, 2018

Ron and his partners at Navalent help companies that are in pursuit of a substantial transformational change, whether it be strategic formulation, organizational design, cultural shifts, or executive leadership behaviors. We love being in the trenches with our clients, a case with every professional services firm.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 30, 2016

If you’ve got your heart set on consulting, this article is for you. Dropping these terms in interviews can be good, but only as a Master’s student, and only when appropriately practical. You’ll need a sexy minor, some unique leadership experience or a great summer internship to stand out.

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 22, 2019

There are lots of little things that separate a candidate who does a good job on a case vs. an excellent job. While it's not necessary to be perfect on every case, it is necessary to come pretty close most of the time. Basically I think of the recruiting process as a race against time. LOMS helps you build good habits.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2018

As part of our research for the book, we interviewed over 40 successful leaders of large corporations, startups, and non-profits to get their views about what it takes to become a leader. We also explored several decades of research on that subject published in HBR; and we reflected on our own experience in the area of leadership development.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 27, 2018

A new research study I led at CTI uncovers, through a nationally representative survey of 3,212 individuals with STEM credentials, and through dozens of additional interviews and focus group conversations, the differentiators of success for women in STEM. How did they do it? Telegraph confidence. Be authentic.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 29, 2016

Bringing light to Africa , mobile banking to Bangladesh , low-cost health care to Nepal, or better school lunches to the American cafeteria: In all these cases, the private sector is a big part of the action. Know that funding alone is not going to solve the recruiting problem. But there is plenty of potential left to unlock.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 14, 2017

This is particularly the case in biopharmaceuticals, where turning molecules into medicines is notoriously fraught with risk, and failure. This may sound obvious, but it was in sharp contrast to typical patterns in the pharma industry of recruiting from within, resistance to new thinking, and sclerotic bureaucratic structures.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2018

While all of them experienced a variety of setbacks, 18% of executives in this dataset faced what many view as the very worst-case scenario: getting fired or laid off. About the Research This article is based on research conducted over 10 years in support of our 2018 book The CEO Next Door. times more likely to be hired.

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Harvard Business

MAY 21, 2018

In most corporate structures, today, recruitment for a position generally means starting with a formal list of tasks — the standardized job description — and hiring someone who can make a convincing case that they would perform each one. Everything is geared, just for us. Then we have job descriptions.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 17, 2017

The business case for diversity is clear. Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. Interviews were recorded and professionally transcribed. For example, Gap Inc.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2018

Since 2013, I’ve keynoted talks to groups of transitioning military veterans nearly 20 times as part of Deloitte’s CORE Leadership program, which helps vets reinvent themselves into civilian careers. Toby Johnson, who I interviewed for my book Reinventing You , taught me this one. For some veterans, that can be tough.

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Real Estate Case Interview Deloitte Leadership 39

CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

By far, the most valuable thing (for me) was the insight into the mindset of consultants and interviewers, which is what your emails provided. It affords a real sense of perspective for a candidate like me, so when I walked into the interview, there was nothing intimidating about the guy or girl in front of me. based resources.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 26, 2017

The Washington, DC office’s recruitment team hires highly intelligent people who start as great communicators but are trainable. The leadership set you up for success. The BAH office culture is a happy one marked by flexibility and managers who are very supportive and collaborate with the team. Lynn Street in Arlington.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 4, 2022

Case Studies. There is a lot to think about when preparing for consulting interviews , and you may want to check out some of our other blog posts and guides for preparing your resume , creating your cover letter , and improving your network. Many of these processes also include early round interviews. Generalist Firm Interviews.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 6, 2012

IN A RECENT article by Bloomberg Businessweek , assistant managing editor Brian Bremmer reports that investigators in America, Canada, Japan, the UK, and the EU are trying to determine whether a handful of brokers and traders have manipulated LIBOR. Case Interviews. Leadership. in Economics. Should we overhaul LIBOR?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

The next layer of books and articles will help you scale these practices to 10, 50, or 500 teams. To prove this, ING made every employee at its headquarters (nearly 3,500 people) re-interview for their job. In fact, in many cases the employees’ skill sets were still highly relevant.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 9, 2023

You might be completing case studies, conducting experiments, and writing lengthy legal reports, all of which will prepare you for your career. This article reflects on 4 activities that were common time sinks in college. This skill will save you lots of your (and your client’s) time and money. This focus changes in graduate school.

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Consulting Engineering Case Interview Course 88

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

We then conducted a series of in-depth individual interviews, delving into pivotal experiences in their personal history and career progression, and using Korn Ferry’s executive online assessment to measure key personality traits and drivers that had an impact. Women could be ready for the CEO role sooner. But what else did you do?

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Harvard Business

JULY 13, 2017

When I conducted over 200 interviews with great bosses as part of my research into the secrets of so-called superbosses , I identified four practices that managers follow to truly become inclusive leaders and — not coincidentally — build innovative, high-performance, high-growth businesses.

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Management Talent Case Interview Culture 41

Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

Facing interconnected operational issues, members of the eight-person senior leadership team were turning against one another. The human resources department, which conducted daily exit interviews with staff leaving the hotel, was concerned that negative comments about working conditions would make finding new talent difficult.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

CEOs routinely tell me that their teams “get the business case, they just need to understand how to change,” but our anonymous interviews with their colleagues quickly call this assumption into question. Leadership is changing — fast. Do you have a recruitment, retention, or promotion issue?

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QEmploy

OCTOBER 8, 2019

As we all know, the internet is huge and there are many different articles out there that claim that their list is the best for consultants, but they are often very short and don’t provide enough information so readers don’t know what to expect. On the blog you can find articles that focus on innovative ideas that can improve your business.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 19, 2018

In some cases, it pays to tailor the job to the candidate’s unique capabilities. the danger that the newcomer will clash for political or personality reasons with members of the leadership team). A central reason is it is hard to identify and recruit good candidates who fit on all dimensions.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Since 2009 we have interviewed and surveyed 181 executives who run PE-owned companies, as well as eight to 15 people who work with each of these 181 executives (supervisors, board members, director reports, and others). But CEOs at the best-run PE-owned firms we’ve worked with emphasize both recruiting and talent development.

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