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Tackling the Case Interview

Tom Spencer

Case study interviews put you in the driver’s seat: you’re given a real business problem to work through and solve. The logical reasoning you use to work through the case is just as important as the conclusions you reach” ( The University of Sydney, 2019 ). There are many different case study examples online.

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BCG Careers vs Working At Bain or McKinsey

Management Consulted

In this video, Jenny Rae focuses not on Bain Case Interviews like in some of our other videos, but on culture- what’s it’s like to work for Boston Consulting Group. The post BCG Careers vs Working At Bain or McKinsey appeared first on Management Consulted. What … Continue Reading.

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Management Consulting

CaseInterview.com

Your role as a management consultant will be to filter information from the client so you can identify the specific challenges being faced. In this case, you may determine that gaining market share will be your client’s biggest challenge. The company itself often does recruitment for internal consultants.

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Consultant Profiles Series: Billy Gerhard

Tom Spencer

Billy Gerhard is a consultant in the Philadelphia office of the Boston Consulting Group, a Big 3 management consulting firm. I do feel that PhDs are very comfortable with data-heavy cases, since we have been around data for four or five years. In 2019, he received his Ph.D. in Biology and a M.S.P.H.

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Thought leadership – by any other name would it smell as sweet?

Tom Spencer

For top-tier consulting firms, there are two primary marketing efforts – the first, marketing to attract entry-level recruits, is quite visible. There are no bus stop advertisements for McKinsey & Company; no online pop-up ads for the Boston Consulting Group.

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Brews, News and Booz & Company: Interview and Culture Insights

Management Consulted

Booz & Company Interview and Culture. So you have a Booz & Company interview coming up, and you want to be the best candidate they see? In reality, McKinsey, Bain, and Boston Consulting Group are tied for first, so Booz & Company is a close 2 nd place. We want you to nail it. Intellectual integrity.

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Management Consulting versus Investment Banking

Management Consulted

Consultants – depending on firm – travel anywhere from 25-75% of their time. At the Big 3 (Bain, Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey), you can expect travel 50-75% of the time. Note -firmsodeling” done in case work may not be directly comparable to the financial modeling more common at investment banks.

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