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Student Consulting ? Does it deliver?

Tom Spencer

This may include discrete projects completed at arms length, such as due diligence on a transaction, or turnaround projects where consultants are embedded within an organisation. Student consultants have less experience in this regard, and in some cases, rely heavily on their clients to support the engagement.

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Sample Consulting Case Questions

Tom Spencer

Below we provide a selection of sample consulting case questions. Pricing Strategy. Growth Strategy. They want to develop a growth strategy for the next five years. It is currently summer, and Cabana is having trouble meeting demand. Turnarounds. (Source: Flickr ). Declining Profitability. smart phone maker.

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How Top Salespeople Land Hard-to-Get Meetings

Harvard Business

While I was researching my new book, How to Get a Meeting with Anyone , I asked the top 100 sales thought leaders in the world, “When you absolutely must reach someone who is very important but nearly impossible to reach, how do you do it? The Seven Imperatives to Keeping Meetings on Track. Secure the meeting.

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

FTI CONSULTING INTERVIEWS & CULTURE. The firm has made up for its youth, however, by growing rapidly through innovation, famous cases and a lot of acquisitions. the consulting firm started off like a lot of American startups do – in a small, forgettable warehouse somewhere on the outskirts of town (in this case, in Annapolis, MD).

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Management Consulting versus Investment Banking

Management Consulted

Finally, you have constant client interaction which develops “client skills” – from managing client teams to running meetings to learning how to navigate different corporate environments. Note -firmsodeling” done in case work may not be directly comparable to the financial modeling more common at investment banks.

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How Volvo Reinvented Itself Through Hiring

Harvard Business

But when some CEOs in this position look at the people they employ, they discover a problem: a swath of their existing team doesn’t have the necessary skills or metabolism for change to meet the new challenges. Developing what we call an “M&A strategy for talent” is one way to overcome this.

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The Mistakes PE Firms Make When They Pick CEOs for Portfolio Companies

Harvard Business

Since 2009 we have interviewed and surveyed 181 executives who run PE-owned companies, as well as eight to 15 people who work with each of these 181 executives (supervisors, board members, director reports, and others). Building alignment and commitment to the firm’s strategy (in particular, by emphasizing empathy as much as urgency).

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