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Facts, Opinions, and Conclusions

CaseInterview.com

The purpose of doing so is to make sure all stakeholders are informed and operating from the same identical base of facts. I have been going to primary source documents a lot more lately. To the extent that there isn’t as much data as you’d like (which is nearly always the case), I try to mentally label my beliefs as “assumptions.”.

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Treat the Interviewer Like a Client

CaseInterview.com

Your materials have been helpful in many different ways, from the psychologic preparation to the technical approach to solving the case. In my particular experience, your guidance was essential to me in revealing the personality behind the much-feared recruiter and interviewer. Live, written, creating cases for yourself.

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Acing the Case Study Assessment

freshminds

The Case Study of the consulting interview process may seem like the most daunting part for some. These usually include Market Sizing, Business Operations/Strategy and Logic but could include some brain teasers too to test out your financial and business sense. McKinsey - Four practice case studies to work from here.

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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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Job Hub: Chick-Fil-A Jobs and Culture

Management Consulted

Though this decommissions 1/7 of the firm’s operating days, it has done nothing to harm Chick-Fil-A’s growth, with the company continuing to post impressive same-store-sales numbers over multiple consecutive years. Interview Tips & Tricks. The most famous of its values is its weekly Sabbath, or closing every Sunday.

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Is AI Technology on the Verge of Displacing Humans?

Effective Managers

The work is either documented in a procedure, or can be documented in a procedure. Think unskilled and technical work: taxi driver, labourer, mechanic, baker, assembler, bookkeeper, brick layer, carpenter, call centre operator, receptionist, and so on. It is work that can typically be done on a day-to-day basis.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

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.