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Know Your Weaknesses

CaseInterview.com

I’m terrible at attention to detail (it hurts my brain too much) and even worse at anything aesthetically oriented (anything from fashion to website design to creating visually impactful slides). When I buy a new product, the first thing I do is throw out the product manual. If you’re not great at finance, hire someone who is.

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Options for Post Consulting Careers

CaseInterview.com

In any case, I have a question for you regarding Consulting vs. industry. I imagine someone interested in product/marketing management is better off going into industry. In which case, it's a human resources issue. In this case, the issue is a client service’s incorrect decision type problem. Work in product management.

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The consulting case study: What you need to know

freshminds

Why are Case Studies used? Note that they are not looking for a “right answer”; they are looking for a “right method” Types of case studies. Here are some examples of different approaches across industries; Management Consulting : tend to use “operational” type case studies (more details below).

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Business Lessons from Henry David Thoreau

Emerson Consulting Group

But there is indeed a case to be made in terms of business milestones achieved by Henry Thoreau in his lifetime. Pencil manufacturing in the US at the time was extremely competitive, with many pencil “products” lacking the reliably fine-point consistency we are accustomed to today.

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Designing the Machines That Will Design Strategy

Harvard Business

Machines can now carry out tasks ranging from recommending movies to diagnosing cancer — independently of, and in many cases better than, humans. LTCM was founded, in 1994, by some of the best minds in finance theory, including two Nobel Prize winners. Remember Long-Term Capital Management ?