Tom Spencer

JULY 2, 2015

Below we provide a selection of sample consulting case questions. Our client is a mid-sized retail bank in Kazakhstan. The bank has achieved sustained revenue growth over the last two years but its profits have consistently declined. Operations. It is currently summer, and Cabana is having trouble meeting demand.

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Consulting Turnaround Case Interview Retail 60

Management Consulted

JANUARY 18, 2015

KEARNEY INTERVIEW AND CULTURE. Now known to be THE best sourcing, procurement and operations consulting firm in the world, A.T. 1997 – First Global Prize, an annual business school case study competition for potential recruits, awarded. Operations. Kearney is impressive on multiple fronts. Firm hires 2,000th employee.

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Interviews Culture Case Interview McKinsey 100

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

FTI CONSULTING INTERVIEWS & CULTURE. As consulting firms go, FTI Consulting is a newcomer – but at just over 30 years old, the firm has made impressive strides to become one of the most respected name in legal analysis and data-driven research to support major initiatives for law firms, banks and the majority of the Fortune 500.

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Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Tom Spencer

AUGUST 18, 2018

It’s great CV and interview fodder. For most students, this will probably be the main reason why they join a student consultancy – it looks great on the CV and gives you something to talk about in interviews. This was definitely the case for me.

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Consulting Case Interview Cover Letters Comparison 60

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. We find that about 1/5 of women currently employed in STEM meet that bar.

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Case Interview Recruiting Recruitment Engineering 43

Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency.

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Agile Software Case Interview Video 28

CaseInterview.com

APRIL 30, 2019

At other firms, they often go to the client for meetings, to conduct interviews, gather data, etc. At McKinsey, my colleagues who had investment banks as clients by far worked the hardest. This also opens up the opportunity to get face time with other operating executives within ABC client. You are working hard too.

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Management Consulting McKinsey How To 75

MishTalk

AUGUST 6, 2013

Case Against The Fed. Operation Twist (2011). The Federal Open Market Committee concluded its September 21, 2011 Meeting at about 2:15 p.m. EDT by announcing the implementation of Operation Twist. Changes in non-reserve bank deposits with FR banks. This Week in Money Interview. Home Builders.

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Balance Sheet Analysis Trends Real Estate 68

Harvard Business

MARCH 15, 2018

To better understand this puzzling incoherence, we used interview data to study how 11 venture capitalists from two Swedish government organizations used notions of gender in their assessments of applications by 126 entrepreneurs (43% women and 57% men). .” Risk-taking.

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Data Real Estate Finance Financial 33

Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

Since then, we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks who follow technology companies. They believe that they can always raise financial capital to meet their funding shortfall or use company stock or options to pay for acquisitions and employee wages.

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Financial Report Cash Flow Metrics 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 7, 2017

But over the last two years, as we interviewed over 60 business leaders, what we found is that this feeling never goes away. No matter how senior the person we interviewed, there was always a lingering doubt about the risks and consequences of speaking up. So we meet someone and label them as: woman or old or American or rich.

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Case Interview Culture Hotels Interviews 42

Confessions of a Consultant

JULY 15, 2018

It’s no longer a case of studying hard for 4 years and ‘milking it’ for the next 40. If that’s the case, you need to find someone external who can provide real feedback. It was difficult to explain – but the fact was that he’d undergone several internal interviews but always received a ‘Dear John’ letter afterwards.

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Exercises Case Interview Operations Leadership 40

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

For example, I have one returnee who has a background in advertising, but she really wants to get more into operations. Interestingly, I’ve also had conversations with Airbnb, Walmart and Silicon Valley Bank, which have actually been hugely responsive. Does she go through interviews? ” Great.

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Case Interview Company Interviews Consulting 100

Confessions of a Consultant

MAY 28, 2017

The banks and insurance companies later ‘aped’ this structure and essentially became the white-collar factories that they are today. Personal Story: When I started working as a management consultant, we operated from a shared office on Northumberland Road in Ballsbridge. Organising Meetings: It can be tricky to line up all the diaries.

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Exercises System Banking Talent 40

MishTalk

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Last week, the FBI shut down the underground website known as "Silk Road" and confiscated the bitcoin wallet of Ross Ulbricht, the site operator, on drug charges. Also consider Mish Interview With "Bitcoin Jesus". With that background, please consider the Extreme Tech report FBI unable to seize 600,000 Bitcoins from Silk Road operator.

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Pharmaceuticals Industry Operations Chemicals 77

MishTalk

APRIL 1, 2015

trillion muni market had puzzled at the true identity of Bond Girl, Hector Negroni, co-founder of New York-based investing firm Fundamental Credit Opportunities, said in a telephone interview. “ The Corporate Fund is Chicago’s general operating fund. Chicago’s property tax revenues do not go into its general operating fund.

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Financial Engineering Finance Government 28

MishTalk

DECEMBER 16, 2015

The interview was before the Fed announcement. It was a fascinating 2-hour interview. I mean in the last few months all the banks have redone their reserve reports. And I think that's proven to be the case. And we see that in pretty much every single case but hospitality they've been ticking ever downward.

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Real Estate Energy Tools Government 28

Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2018

Ostensibly, young companies are “acqui-hired” more for their best people than for any real interest in their products, services, or ongoing operations. Consider the case of a large Midwestern financial services firm that was struggling to compete online. Go to lots of — or too many — meetings?

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Enterprise Talent How To Agile 28