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Before Day 1: Taking Advantage of the In-Between

Tom Spencer

You successfully interviewed for a position at your dream consulting firm, and you have received and accepted an offer. Maybe you interviewed in the fall but defend your thesis in the spring. Maybe you interviewed in the fall but defend your thesis in the spring. You did it! However, you have multiple months before you begin.

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Cornerstone Research Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Specializing in economic, financial and market analysis, specifically for cases in litigation, Cornerstone Research touts itself as the one player major law firms turn to when navigating the obstacle course that is the American and European legal systems. How exactly does the firm help, though? International Arbitration and Litigation.

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Consulting Case Interviews at Non-Consulting Firms

Tom Spencer

Consulting-style case interviews are highly effective, and the same format is being adopted more and more widely. The major consultancies have converged on a largely identical interview style, precisely because it excels in picking out the most genuinely capable candidates from the huge pools of applications received.

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Why You Shouldn’t Swear at Siri

Harvard Business

It’s estimated that about 10% to 50% of interactions are abusive, according to Dr. Sheryl Brahnam in a TechEmergence interview late last year. That undermines enterprise efficiency, productivity, and culture. These behaviors are simply not sustainable. Bad behavior can poison bot behavior.

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Completing Graduate School Like a Consultant

Tom Spencer

Whether you are studying for your MBA , Ph.D., You might be completing case studies, conducting experiments, and writing lengthy legal reports, all of which will prepare you for your career. However, do not go right to the registrar and enroll in every course you are interested in taking. He earned his Ph.D.

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Want Less-Biased Decisions? Use Algorithms.

Harvard Business

A similar conclusion was reached by Bo Cowgill at Columbia Business School when he studied the performance of a job-screening algorithm at a software company ( forthcoming research ). Of course, we should be doing all we can to eradicate institutional bias and its pernicious influence on decision-making algorithms.

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30 Best Consultant Websites & Why They Have Them (2022)

Tsavo Neal

She had heard bunch of my interviews and follows the podcast. Google will pick up those changes faster and make corrections to your knowledge panel a lot more efficiently than if you didn’t have a website. While there are of course many other places with my content (podcasts, articles, guest posts, etc.), from time to time.