Martinka Consulting

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Social media is one area where it’s snuck up on traditional businesses. It’s unusual for me to meet someone who hasn’t seen my blog, videos, LinkedIn articles, Twitter feeds as well as the usual and customary, my website. Two years ago, I did a little here and a little there.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

More often than not, you're on the verge of a big insight into the case and that is the moment where the great candidates explore what they found to be unusual, whereas the other candidates notice it is unusual but don't actually do anything different in the case. All information you receive in a case is not created equally.

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Management Consulted

MAY 10, 2015

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. Johannesburg, South Africa. Career Path. Exit Opportunities. Notable Alumni.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 22, 2020

Options are important, and I think it became really starkly clear to me as I started taking care of myself, where usually of these things really start, and started taking care of my family. Pati for coming to talk to us today. I'm so excited you're here. Dr. Pati: I'm excited to be here. You're in inspiration. Dr. Pati: Okay.

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CaseInterview.com

APRIL 7, 2020

To state the obvious, unemployed people with no income can’t buy things from businesses. Businesses that have major declines in sales can’t afford to pay employees or buy from suppliers (who themselves have employees and their own suppliers to pay). There’s very much an interdependency across all parties within an economy.

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Consulting Matters

MARCH 27, 2018

So you have your own business consulting success. So tell me about this business. So how did you get into starting this business? So I've been building successful consulting businesses now for over 18 years. Zipursky: Yeah, so it was always my own consulting business that I started with. Betsy Jordyn: That's great.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Though Infosys Consulting is its own legal entity, it is still considered a part of the Infosys umbrella, which has caused problems due to their differing business approaches. INFOSYS CONSULTING. The firm supports clients across 50 countries with a massive employee base of almost 135,000 people. INFOSYS CONSULTING KEY STATS. For Infosys Inc.,

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CaseInterview.com

APRIL 29, 2019

Being insightful in a case interview is an important skill, especially as you get in more competitive environments (like a final round interview). Being insightful is analyzing the data and noticing an important relationship that would be significant to the client/CEO. To over generalize, there are three kinds of insights: 1) Positive.

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NeoAcademic

APRIL 16, 2021

We usually play a game, like trivia or would-you-rather, in the first half, and have interviews in the second half. ” The Business of Behavior with Becca Tagg “Getting clear about our values will help us to make changes in our business that lead to greater fulfillment, productivity, and abundance.”

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Women in Consulting

AUGUST 21, 2014

In my previous post, I outlined some ways service businesses could market themselves online. Outline the information and tell the reporters a little bit about yourself. “How to’s” are often good, as are stories about trends, personalities and any unusual aspect of your product or service. By: Kay Paumier. It’s a great service.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 26, 2018

It’s tempting, of course, to default to the same vacation each year: your family’s cabin, a familiar beach town, your favorite city, that resort the kids loved. We often choose to spend our hard-earned dollars for comfort, predictability, and relaxation, and there are benefits to doing so. But eventually I got my bearings.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2017

It was an unusually complex problem, so the firm set up a team of crack microchip designers, and they started putting their heads together. Or, what if the company needed to identify a new business model? One of the best innovation stories I’ve ever heard came to me from a senior executive at a leading tech firm.

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Management Consulted

JUNE 26, 2016

Today, we continue Part 2 (see Part 1 here ) of our interview with Charlie, an experienced Harvard grad who took an unusual path into healthcare consulting, yet leveraged his experience and hard prep work into an offer at Putnam. It seems like it’s a little cheeky, but it’s not usually something that people pick up on.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Today, I’m going to cover something different. I’m to going to explain how to be one of the 500 most powerful people in America. to be a U.S. Congressman (or woman). Actually, I’ll explain a behind-the-scenes look of how one such person came to power — and how the underlying lessons are applicable to any career field. First, he was a smart guy.

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2017

When entrepreneurs start a business, they often grapple with whether to use their name in their company’s name. An eponymous name can also set expectations that customers will be doing business directly with the founder. Depending on the business model, an entrepreneur may or may not want to give that impression.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

In 1991, Danish politician and social worker Uffe Elbæk took out a $100,000 personal loan to open an unusual business school called Kaospilot. At the heart of many organizations is a deeper problem that blocks transformation: product/function organizational structure. Negative capability: being comfortable with uncertainty.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 5, 2015

Business Services. Summer Consultants, like Summer Associates, will spend 8 to 10 weeks at the firm, although they will usually dedicate 100% of their internship on one single engagement. is very unusual in that it is a very low travel firm. Along with a Chairman, L.E.K. Practice Areas. ’s 4 practice areas are: Strategy.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 18, 2019

Consulting is really the merger of two very different fields -- business analysis and interpersonal leadership skills. The premise of the case interview is to use a business simulation to test your business analysis skills (or general quantitative analysis skills as applied to a business problem). but only a little!).

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 13, 2019

A case interview is a hypothetical business situation that is presented during an interview process to determine how a candidate thinks about a particular problem and how they would solve it. Their chief concern is what they should be doing as a business with respect to electric vehicles and cars that can drive themselves.

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Harvard Business

MAY 9, 2018

She’d noticed, too, that when covering her work, the media always seemed to focus on how unusual it was for a black woman to be a director, rather than on her vision as a filmmaker. When we think of good managers, research suggests , we usually think of men. But by the time she met with Disney, DuVernay felt confident.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2016

In these situations, I often found that the problem is more strategic because it relates to the choices firms are making about the kind of business they’re taking on — something I call “work mix.” To be sure, some of the usual suspects made their bows. ” It’s a particular problem for service firms.

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SkillQuo

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The healthcare industry faces high regulatory burden and health incumbents that have not recognized their businesses face an existential threat. Mobile also creates an opportunity to develop new business models such as telemedicine, which allows for remote communication with physicians. The Unbundling of Primary Care. RETAIL CLINICS.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

In one global consumer products company that I work with, my firm’s organizational assessment revealed an unusually intense degree of aggravation over how much time was consumed by meetings, leaving “only evenings to do our day jobs,” according to one interviewee. And 71% of senior managers view them as unproductive.

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The boutique firms sometimes try to pressure top candidates into accepting an offer with them (usually through a very short decision deadline) before the candidate has had a chance to hear back from the top firms, using the rationale that the firm could not compete with other firms in attracting the candidate without the pressure.

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 9, 2019

More precisely, I built custom frameworks around your "Business Situation" Framework (Customer, Product, Company, Competition) by adding selected notions from Cosentino (and my own ideas). You cited networking as the key distinguishing factor that explains this unusual outcome. I got the BCG offer after six one-hour interviews!

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

So intuition, business acumen , or common sense is very useful in formulating a hypothesis. The short answer is this: You only get stuck in a case if you skip steps. If you never skip steps, you never get stuck! Read on for details. Should I Use Intuition in my Case Interviews? . Email: Victor, I just had a quick opinion question.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Low churn and high loyalty scores usually mean that customers feel good about your company. They like doing business with you. The Vanguard Group, for example, makes a point of interviewing a sample of clients who have convinced others to bring business to the firm. You have great loyalty scores and low customer churn.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2018

But immigrants aren’t just creating more businesses; they’re creating more successful ones. A Harvard Business school study comparing immigrant-founded businesses to native-founded ones showed that immigrant-founded companies perform better in terms of employment growth over three- and six-year time horizons.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 13, 2017

So attached are we to our devices that it’s not unusual to have your phone with you at all times. Was I dealing with an urgent business matter? ” A 2016 survey from Deloitte found that Americans collectively check their phones 8 billion times per day. Was I going to make a clandestine call from a bathroom stall?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Many times, especially in business settings, people use words that they think they know — but don’t. Sure, saying the wrong word (usually) isn’t a game-changer. ” That might impact (affect) your business presentation. ” Think it can’t happen to you? begs the question. impacts on.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I am a senior at a top-rated Undergrad Business School, but I still found it really hard to get a job in the consulting field. So, it did not occur to me that the communication aspects of LOMS would be considered unusual or uncommon in any way. Bain & Booz Allen Offers from Mumbai. Email: Hope you are doing well.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 7, 2017

By early 2016 there were 20 HR business partners, covering almost 6,000 employees. This pattern is not unusual in startup and unicorn organizations, and it has been described to me by board members, HR leaders, and other executives. In one word: No. But this focus on a single element of the HR value proposition can perpetuate a crisis.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 17, 2017

This location, consisting of a series of islands in a marshy lagoon, also pushed it to develop a (then unusual) trading and moneylending economy, since there was little land to support agriculture. If your current business is like a carefully tended garden, with neat beds and high walls, that’s not enough.

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Confessions of a Consultant

JANUARY 28, 2018

Disadvantages : Because this is a somewhat unusual approach it can be viewed cynically (internally) and needs careful communications. Usually needs a drill down analysis into competitor offerings and sufficient time to consider a range of possible futures. Keep moving forward or get left behind! And it’s not just about clarity.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 26, 2016

Their stated reasons usually have to do with his character, expertise, and policies — or lack thereof. The deal behind Deal , which placed Trump in the pantheon of celebrity executives and on the path to a presidential nomination, is not unusual or new. For being complicit in his rise. To dismiss them as such is foolish.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

While much of the advice on becoming more creative is known, what’s harder to figure out is how busy executives actually find time to put it into practice. Usually it would not only be super fun, but it would also open up new avenues of thought that could then be applied to the original brief.” It’s creativity.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

what this produces for the business and for shareholders — the critical outcome metrics by which the organization will be judged. So, what are these big strategic questions that leaders aren’t spending enough time on or aren’t answering in a sufficiently clear or disciplined way? OK, I Made the Time. Now What?

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