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Can Consulting Make a Positive Social Impact?

Tom Spencer

Let us look at an example as a sort of case study. PIs bring in their own technical expertise with students coming from engineering backgrounds at Pratt, public policy backgrounds at Sanford, or even medical and law backgrounds. I wanted to learn about DISI from firsthand experience, so I interviewed its two Co-Presidents.

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M&A deals – benefits and drawbacks

Tom Spencer

Many consulting, corporate strategy, and corporate development roles require the interviewee to go through an M&A case study. Depending on the firm and specific role this case could be very strategic and operational like doing a market entry/growth-type case or very technical (i.e.

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From STEM PhD to Federal Consulting: An Interview with Josh

Management Consulted

Here at MC, we had the pleasure of recently interviewing Josh and asking him how he’s navigated his interesting career path, and how consulting was a great place for his passions and skills to collide. Once I graduated with my PhD, I was awarded a AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship and moved to the DC area for two years.

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Conversation with A.T. Kearney

Tom Spencer

Kearney offers a broad range of services including Analytics, Mergers & Acquisitions, Operations and Strategy. Kearney Consulting use the case interview in its recruitment process? Tom: How many interview rounds are there? Kearney: At campus level, two rounds of 2 interviews. Tom: Does A.T. Kearney: Of course!

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The Deep Flaw in MBB Strategic Planning

CaseInterview.com

When I first started recruiting for consulting jobs, an interviewer at Bain shared a story (arguably a legend at this point) about how Bain (or it might have been McKinsey) was asked to advise Motorola on whether or not they should enter the mobile phone market. In classic case study analysis, you’d ask them, "What are the market segments?"

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7 Practical Ways to Reduce Bias in Your Hiring Process

Harvard Business

” Left unchecked, biases can also shape a company or industry’s culture and norms, says Iris Bohnet, director of the Women and Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School and author of What Works: Gender Equality by Design. To begin, you’ll need to understand what hiring prejudices are and how they operate.

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Want Less-Biased Decisions? Use Algorithms.

Harvard Business

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. But there is a pattern among these critics, which is that they rarely ask how well the systems they analyze would operate without algorithms. What Does the Research Say? So what’s going on here?