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Case Interviews: When to Be Creative

CaseInterview.com

Question: I have been following your blog at CaseInterview.com and using your video for my case interview practice. I did exactly this in one management consulting interview and got dinged -- the biggest feedback I received was I lacked creativity (which I intentionally suppressed to make sure that I was not jumping around).

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: European Car Sales.

MishTalk

Trend Analysis. Case Against The Fed. Bay Area Real Estate Trends. EW Trends and Charts. European Car Sales Plunge to 20-Year low. Amidst all the happy talk that Europe is on the verge of some sort of recovery, here is yet another counterpoint: European Car Sales Plunge to 20-Year Low. Global Economic.

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Big Miss in Retail Sales vs. Expectations; Trend Change or Another

MishTalk

Trend Analysis. Case Against The Fed. Bay Area Real Estate Trends. EW Trends and Charts. Big Miss in Retail Sales vs. Expectations; Trend Change or Another "Soft Patch"? Retail sales were up 0.4% May retail sales were revised lower, to +0.5% Sales dropped 2.2 Retail Sales vs. Last Year.

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Consulting Case Anatomy – A Simple Breakdown

Management Consulted

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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Each Firm's Favorite Cases

CaseInterview.com

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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Fireside Chat – Consulting Recruiting at Target and Non-Target Universities

Tom Spencer

More specifically, we were able to go over a few common questions about the differences in recruiting at a ‘target university’ and a ‘non-target university’ for management consulting. Why did you decide to pursue management consulting? Jeff : I had little idea about management consulting until my second year at university.

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Great Depression 2020? (Part 2)

CaseInterview.com

I made the case (that I still stand by) that a collapse of the consumer banking system (in the 1930s) and the investment banking system (in 2008) would not be reasons why our current economy would go into a depression. I’ve written previously about finding the trends that emerge in a recession and riding them. Here’s an example.