Tom Spencer
SEPTEMBER 15, 2012
As a result of the crisis, there was less money available for consumption and investment activity, and businesses found it difficult to re-finance existing loans. Just stumbled across your blog, and your current post struck a responsive chord. Here is a recent post from my blog on “growth”: [link]. Case Interviews.
Tom Spencer
NOVEMBER 22, 2012
Get Email Updates (It’s Free). -- Australia’s premier consulting blog. Case Interviews. Enjoy the Consulting Blog? Assess the organisation’s strategic direction: Is the organisation performing well, or does it need a completely new strategy? Graduate Consulting Group. Categories. Select Category. Leadership.
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Tom Spencer
NOVEMBER 27, 2011
Over the last few decades, countless risky financial products were sold to investors using harmless sounding terms like “credit default swap”, “mortgage backed security”, “special purpose vehicle” and “off-balance sheet financing”. Get Email Updates (It’s Free). -- Australia’s premier consulting blog. Case Interviews.
CaseInterview.com
MARCH 26, 2019
The PARADE Method (tm) is an approach to answering resume-oriented job interview questions. It is an approach I developed that is tailored for answering these questions in job interviews for management consulting, as well as interviews for senior executive positions in industry. Interviewers want to know what you did.
Tom Spencer
SEPTEMBER 18, 2011
Here are three examples of pessimistic explanations for positive outcomes: Praise from a client: “The client was happy with the finance report [specific] that the team [non-personal] submitted on this project [temporary]. Get Email Updates (It’s Free). -- Australia’s premier consulting blog. Case Interviews.
CaseInterview.com
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
If you know finance, especially the finance of retail businesses, that’s nearly impossible. Business A can be profitable if it grows revenues enough to cover the non-product-related operating costs (such as sales, marketing, customer service, finance, and human resources). The company had suffered a 40% drop in sales.
CaseInterview.com
JUNE 13, 2019
A reader sent me an email asking if there was a pattern or trend to what kind of case problems are given by each firm? So, does BCG give M&A questions while McKinsey gives business cases? My answer is the cases you get are all over the place and there's no pattern that I've ever seen or heard about.
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