freshminds

MARCH 5, 2018

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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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

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). I realized that I’m terrible at #1, and the idea of hiring and managing hundreds of employees felt like torture to me. (In

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 30, 2019

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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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Therefore, you are likely to come across pricing problems in your case interviews. So let’s step through a helpful framework for pricing cases. Pricing Strategy Case Framework. Showing your interviewer that you know about the concepts laid out below will set you apart from other candidates. Image: Pexels.

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 22, 2019

There are lots of little things that separate a candidate who does a good job on a case vs. an excellent job. While it's not necessary to be perfect on every case, it is necessary to come pretty close most of the time. By the time you master the case interview, will you have any interview opportunities left?

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Successful Independent Consulting

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

With LinkedIn and personal websites widely used to promote careers, the idea of independent management consultants having a printable résumé may seem old-fashioned. However, in most cases it’s still necessary. This article explains why and how a consulting résumé should differ from a traditional corporate résumé.

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Martinka Consulting

JULY 15, 2017

And how it’s used to bombard us with targeted messages, or, in worst case scenarios, how others can use it to terrorize people. A friend feels she recently dodged a bullet during an interview. When arriving at the company the first person she met said, “Oh, you’re here to interview for my job.” Here’s what happened.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 4, 2018

Self-awareness seems to have become the latest management buzzword — and for good reason. Conducting in depth interviews with 50 people who’d dramatically improved their self-awareness to learn about the key actions that helped them get there, as well as their beliefs and practices. Take Jeremiah, a marketing manager.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 25, 2019

I recently received this success story from an actress (now a BCG consultant), and thought you would find her suggestions and tips on case interview prep useful. I did your maths drills daily, and can practically recite the fashion case-study - I listened to LOMS on the tube, while cleaning, on my morning jogs.

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Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2017

The term “authenticity” has become a buzzword among organizational leaders, with employers encouraging job candidates and employees to bring their whole selves to interviews or the workplace. First, consider the case of Chastity Jones , who received a formal job offer from an insurance claims processing center in 2010.

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Emerson Consulting Group

MAY 7, 2019

But there is indeed a case to be made in terms of business milestones achieved by Henry Thoreau in his lifetime. A “Thoreau School” in Thoreau’s hometown of Concord, Massachusetts, founded and managed by Henry and his brother John, defied many of standard education principles of that time.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

The saying “You only have one chance to make a first impression” holds true in many situations, from job interviews to sales calls. If, for instance, colleagues say you are a great people manager, seek out metrics to support that idea. Case Study #2: Know what you’re good at and prepare a list of talking points.

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Prudent Pedal

JANUARY 21, 2020

We’ve managed to ruin the critical, powerful mapping of the buyer’s journey. It’s just a good old-fashioned understanding of client needs, combined with intelligent segmentation, aligned with consultative selling, and assisted by technology. Once again, I’ve overstated my case. What have we ruined this time?

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Harvard Business

APRIL 17, 2017

Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time. See More Videos > See More Videos > In order to understand how firms have systematically enhanced trust in applied AI, my colleagues Monika Hengstler and Selina Duelli and I conducted nine case studies in the transportation and medical device industries. Related Video.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

After one extended trip abroad during which he avoided email, he wrote that he had missed a large number of critical messages, including a fulfillment center crisis that caused him to lose more than 20% of monthly orders for his business, media interview opportunities that had expired, and more than a dozen partnership offers.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

“Technically, cars today are very different from ten years ago,” says Sällström, whom we interviewed for our book, Talent Wins. He was creative and, in some cases, counterintuitive. For example, its members asked why every design change in a car required a dozen signatures and managed to cut that number in half.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 10, 2019

Like a consulting interview, a product manager (PM) interview consists of multiple parts, including a case study and a behavioral portion, which looks for communication, management, and prioritization skills. Thus, it is vital to ask product-related questions in a PM interview. Describe use case scenarios.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

There's no way I would have been as confident as I was in the final round interview, if I had not used your Look Over My Shoulder ® Program. This was the language that you recommended in Look Over My Shoulder ® , and the interviewer cut me off and said, "perfect structure and excellent work on explaining your hypothesis.".

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 24, 2018

News of this kind is “hard to hear, and it’s hard to deliver,” says Joseph Weintraub, a professor at Babson College and the coauthor of The Coaching Manager: Developing Top Talent in Business. Because the topic is so unpleasant, it’s a “conversation that many managers have a tendency to want to avoid.”

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 17, 2013

We arrived at the Bain office early in the afternoon; a partner at the firm had contracted us to do a fashion consulting project for their SF employees. Saturday, the last day of our trip, we went to Stanford to do a day-long session focused on case interviews. 10AM – 11AM – Structuring the fit interview.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2016

If I were giving bad news to someone I’d interviewed for a job, I might tweak it a bit, but the basic format would stay the same: [Their name], Thanks for making the time to talk with me last week. While I enjoyed our conversation, I think we need someone with more hands-on project management experience for this role.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2016

Machines can now carry out tasks ranging from recommending movies to diagnosing cancer — independently of, and in many cases better than, humans. Remember Long-Term Capital Management ? Within this machine, people and technology must each play their particular roles in an integrated fashion.

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Confessions of a Consultant

AUGUST 12, 2018

Management consulting can be likened to a ‘fashion business’, in the sense that new ideas fall in and out of vogue all the time. The book attempted to distil the methods deployed by the best-managed companies to create what’s sometimes referred to as sticky talent. The interviewer replies, “ Yeah, but you started it.”.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 22, 2020

Interview Transcript: Betsy: Good afternoon. If you think about how we've been trained in medicine, most of our emphasis has been on managing disease once we identify it. And or course in the standard of care we do lifestyle modification, and then after that we give you usually some medication to start managing the sugars.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In the case interview process for McKinsey, one of the early evaluations is “Solve,” McKinsey’s digital assessment game (formerly called the McKinsey Problem Solving Game). McKinsey’s digital assessment game Solve is a video game in which candidates problem-solve to manage some form of ecological situation.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Thankfully, everything stayed in a nice orderly fashion, the way accountants like it, after the audit portrayed Peat Marwick in a favorable light. Business Process Management. Change Management. Talent Management. Senior Manager. KPMG CONSULTING INTERVIEWS & RECRUITING. Business Intelligence.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

in Management Consulting. “I Jon Stewart from The Daily Show: “I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. Case Interviews. Management Consulting. Definitions. Helpful Links. The Three-Question Rule. by Tom Spencer on September 24, 2011 · 2 comments. Part 1: The Rule of Three. Categories. Leadership.

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Confessions of a Consultant

MAY 28, 2017

Personal Story: When I started working as a management consultant, we operated from a shared office on Northumberland Road in Ballsbridge. It sounds like a line from Father Ted – but this was actually the case. Ceding Control: The biggest downside for Managers is learning to let go. I know, I know. It’s presenteeism.

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MishTalk

JULY 1, 2013

Case Against The Fed. Mick Mulvaney, a close friend of Rand’s who jogs and plays baseball with him, said he believes what most significantly separates the senator from his father is his ability to crisply articulate his ideas in a marketable fashion. 2011-04-23: Syndicated Interview on Canadian Radio - My Segment Starts 29:31.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Also consider Mish Interview With "Bitcoin Jesus". After shuttering the hidden site, law enforcement went to work confiscating the money and materials belonging to supposed drug kingpin Ross Ulbricht, but this usually routine procedure is proving especially troublesome in this case. Bitcoin Background.

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