Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

I vividly remember the last consulting interview during first-year MBA recruiting season. I had managed to get interviews with three firms but only made it past the first round with this final company. A separate consulting project for an outside company that partnered with our school. I was tense. 5pm rolls by, no call….

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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.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 3, 2016

As a prospective consultant, one of the things that can seem the most mysterious in the case study prep process is wondering what the interviewer is going to ask you next. Many of you have heard about interviewer-led and interviewee-led case interviews and are wondering how to approach each one appropriately.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 31, 2020

According to Business Insider , the odds of getting hired by McKinsey & Company are less than 1%, although this is not unique to McKinsey. To secure a final round interview at Bain, you would have to be in the top 3% of applicants for that office. Could you have practised more cases? Reflect on the Situation.

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CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The company had suffered a 40% drop in sales. If you know finance, especially the finance of retail businesses, that’s nearly impossible. Of course, I was admiring the company's financial management while also feeling a little chilly. but was still profitable! When the CEO explained their gross margins, I was wowed.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 24, 2023

For example, in a recent consulting engagement, I worked with a company that was struggling with low employee morale. After conducting interviews and surveys, it became clear that the root cause of the problem was a lack of transparency on the part of management. For example, how should a car make decisions in case of an accident?

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Management Consulted

JULY 3, 2016

As if he wasn’t already impressive enough, he also led a team that provided expert services during the Vitamin C Antitrust Litigation, one of the largest price-fixing cases in U.S. In case you hadn’t figured it out by now, Bates White is a boutique economic consultancy firm headquartered at Washington, D.C. Practice Areas.

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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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Management Consulted

AUGUST 1, 2013

Have an upcoming Oliver Wyman interview? Like Mercer, Oliver Wyman is a subsidiary of parent company Marsh & McLennan Companies, who also own Lippincott, NERA Economic Consulting, and other businesses. Mercer took after its parent company and began building and acquiring its own businesses. Website: [link].

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Successful Independent Consulting

OCTOBER 22, 2017

“Catalant connects the world’s leading companies with over 40,000 experts and firms to meet on-demand business needs.” Formerly HourlyNerd, the company claims to have 650 client companies in 120 countries. The company prefers to pay on a 1099 tax basis, although some clients still insist on a W-2 payment to the consultant.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 11, 2016

The Brattle Group is now considered one of the European Union’s top consulting firms in the areas of energy, finance and competition. In 2013, the New York office was established, providing a home base in one the most important finance and legal markets in the world. Regulatory finance. Commercial damages. Accounting.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Google is a California-based company that many consider to already run the world! Interview Tips & Tricks. Google is the epitome of a Bay area start-up.The company promotes based on ability, not experience, and without respect to age and tenure. How many Google services do you use?

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 18, 2015

The outsourcing matrix may prove useful in the consulting case interview, either as a standalone framework or as part of a larger profitability framework. A company will want to eliminate or outsource costly activities that have low strategic importance. Partner with distribution companies (e.g. (Source: Flickr ).

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

The prize for best answer was a FREE Consulting Case Bank and The Consulting Bible 3rd edition – a HUGE giveaway – so we weren’t surprised when we heard from so many of you. As we were looking through your responses, we realized you were answering as if you were in an interview – and that’s smart.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

CHG Healthcare Services is a Utah-based company that has been ranked as high as 3rd in Fortune Magazine’s Top 100 Companies to Work For. Ranked 18th in Fortune Magazine’s 100 Best Companies to Work For (2016), what puts CGH Healthcare so ahead of the game? Interview online or through an employee referral (recommended).

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Management Consulted

JULY 19, 2015

Ramit is a junior at Duke University who successfully aced his on campus interview. However, he did receive some puzzling feedback from his interviewers, leading him to contact Jenny Rae to guide him through how to use the input constructively for his final interview on site at BCG. I thought I bombed the case.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 2, 2016

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. International Arbitration and Litigation. Labor and Employment. Real Estate. Securities.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Interviewing with NERA Economic Consulting? The firm advises government divisions, law firms, and major global corporations on governmental regulation (like anti-trust rulings), public policy implications, public, competitive forces, and private financing. NERA ECONOMIC CONSULTING. Well, NERA is no MBB.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 26, 2019

M&A case framework. Now that you have a high-level understanding of why companies buy each other in the first place (refer to M&A deals – benefits and drawbacks ), let’s discuss the framework you should use to analyze the transaction. Firms typically look at four areas when working on M&A cases. The market.

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Management Consulted

JUNE 14, 2015

Then, underneath three of these sub-subsidiaries are, you guessed it, more subsidiaries, such as Seabury Airline Planning Group LLC and Seabury Maritime Corporate Finance LLC. In fact, one of our interview coaches, Michael Hecht, used to work for The Seabury Group and now works for Delta Airlines as a member of their Skymiles team.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 26, 2016

The company prides itself on its innovative, forward-thinking culture, and believes that its work is a reflection of that culture. Uber expects an all-in commitment from you to make sure that the company is successful in the city or market you are working in. Interview Tips & Tricks. seven years of growth.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 29, 2022

Informational interviews become second nature to the point that rejection no longer leaves a mark on you. The majority of the MBA programs will cover similar business cases. Through analyzing case studies and taking the ethics classes during the MBA, one gets to see the value of building a reputable company and acting ethically.

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Management Consulted

JUNE 5, 2016

If healthcare decision-making processes and drug development get you out of bed in the morning, or if you simply want to learn from someone who successfully navigated the consulting interview process just last year, be ready to pick up some great networking and interview tips for yourself. interview on Friday.

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CaseInterview.com

APRIL 5, 2020

In large companies, when every functional leader does what’s best for his or her department (at the exclusion of what’s useful for other departments), what’s best for the company overall usually doesn’t happen. But, by doing so, they fail to enable a “globally”-optimized outcome for the company as a whole.

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CaseInterview.com

JULY 18, 2019

Company Structure. Oliver Wyman's parent company is Marsh and McLennan Companies, founded in Chicago in 1905 and currently headquartered in New York. Corporate finance advisory. The hiring process involves a mixture of both behavioral interviews and case interviews. Bain & Company).

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 26, 2019

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. Benefits of Combining Forces.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The company prides itself on its fun, laid-back culture, and believes that its products are a reflection of that culture. Clean Streets is a company initiative that enables employees to give back to the community while on the job. In case you hadn’t noticed, the benefits are exceptional, and the pay is above-average as well.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

Georgia-Pacific is an Atlanta-based pulp and paper company with an 88-year history as an industry leader. Certified in sustainable forestry practices, the company has a reputation for taking environmental protection seriously and is the largest user of recycled pulp in the world, bringing you products such as Angel Soft, Brawny and Dixie.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

After seeing just how successful the GDM was, Pratt began talks with Deloitte’s strategy group in the hopes of taking the whole company in this direction. adding a consulting arm came at just the right time, as it let the company transition from being a custom software provider to an end-to-end solutions provider. HR Processes.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 22, 2018

Case competitions are amazing opportunities to demonstrate your ‘case cracking’ abilities in front of industry judges, quickly expand your network, and win great prizes. I even started one, which is now one of the largest case competitions in the Waterloo, Canada region. All case competitions are not created equal.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

FTI CONSULTING INTERVIEWS & CULTURE. The firm has made up for its youth, however, by growing rapidly through innovation, famous cases and a lot of acquisitions. the consulting firm started off like a lot of American startups do – in a small, forgettable warehouse somewhere on the outskirts of town (in this case, in Annapolis, MD).

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

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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Tom Spencer

JUNE 6, 2020

To understand the target customers on this level, methods such as focus groups, surveys, interviews, and case studies can be successful. Psychographic segmentation is similar to developing a target persona, in that it is a collection of customer values and behaviors that would be most receptive to the company’s offering.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

Chick-Fil-A, is the Georgia-based privately held and family owned company credited with pioneering the establishment of restaurants in shopping malls. Since its inception, this company – with over 1,850 locations in 41 states and Washington, D.C. Interview Tips & Tricks. and the rest is history.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

If you’re not great at finance, hire someone who is. If you aren’t great technically, go find a colleague in the tech side of your company to be a mentor. If you find case interviews painful, you definitely don’t want to be a consultant. If you’re not great at sales, find someone who is.

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CaseInterview.com

JULY 18, 2019

Finance and Performance Management. For More information on Finance and Performance Management go here: [link]. Accenture consultants with the Human Performance team help companies take advantage of their greatest resources: the people who work for them. Process and Innovation Performance. For More: [link].

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Management Consulted

MARCH 29, 2015

Because of this, we sat down with consulting veteran Lisa Bright (who is now part of the MC interview coaching team!) I majored in accounting, finance and supply chain management at a college in the state (Miami of Ohio). I was going down the route of finance, asset management, investment banking, or something like that.

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