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Interview Season for New Grads

Tom Spencer

It is easy to put a lot of pressure on yourself during interview season, especially when your classmates are receiving interviews for firms you’re interested in. This blog post is mostly about what to do when you receive an interview at that firm you’ve been eyeing for some time. So, if this is you, congrats! Determination.

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5 Questions with an Associate at BCG London

Management Consulted

In my view, the 2 best things about working at BCG are the people and the opportunity for personal development. In my experience, the average case team is made up of 3 or 4 nationalities, including the individuals who in past lives were entrepreneurs, surgeons, or front line soldiers and now run charities or marathons in their spare time.

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5 Tips for Freshmen to Tackle the Recruiting Process

Tom Spencer

So, you recently graduated high school, got into a top school, and now suddenly you are bombarded with talk about internships, clubs, top firms, consulting interviews, and more. All the case prep, interview practice, and networking in the world will be for naught if your resume lets you down. Build out your resume.

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Success vs. Satisfaction

CaseInterview.com

Most people assume such a relationship when that’s not always the case. If you have no idea what’s personally meaningful for you, then, by all means, experiment, develop one or more competencies, and be successful. It’s true that sometimes you need to develop a certain level of competence in an area to enjoy it.

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Bates White Economic Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

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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How Companies Can Champion Sustainable Development

Harvard Business

Given political climates around the world and a new wariness around international cooperation, the private sector could find itself in the hot seat: trying to pick up the slack on big issues from climate change to sustainable development. Make the business case. And some companies have taken the lead.

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Bureaucracy Can Drain Your Company’s Energy. Agile Can Restore It.

Harvard Business

” In these situations, advocating greater patience or more persuasive business cases isn’t likely to help. The energy, commitment, and collaboration among team members was a revelation. They know that agile successes will increase executive motivation faster than pleading or making the business case ever could.

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