Tom Spencer

JULY 16, 2015

The Three C’s Framework may prove extremely valuable for consulting case questions. It can help to assess the business situation in the context of entering a new market, M&A, product development, and starting a new business. What products and services do they offer? (Source: Flickr ). Large versus small customers.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

A case in point is WeWork, the provider of coworking spaces, which has grown its enterprise customer base in the last year by 370%. But our research and reporting show this isn’t the case. We’ve separately toured and interviewed principals in more than a dozen corporate coworking spaces in the U.S.,

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 17, 2018

Internal and external analyses are performed, interviews with key stakeholders are conducted, and key strengths and opportunities are identified. Jason Oh is a management consulting enthusiast with past experience in helping F500 financial services clients with product management, go-to-market and distribution channel strategy.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 2, 2020

Recently, an economist by the name of Steve Keen was interviewed on Youtube. If Keen is sincere in his belief that gold is not money, then he should find it truly baffling that the US holds more than 8,000 metric tons of gold in reserve. Increasing our stock of productive capital requires a pool of savings.

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1 to 1

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Qualitative research methods—such as customer interviews, focus groups, and even ride-a-longs—can help collect insights directly from the customer. In this step, you’ll want to build out the logistics, timeline, objectives, and metrics that will help your organization achieve CX success.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 10, 2017

By seeing exactly where and how people spend their time — rather than relying on recollections, anecdotes, or assumptions — executives have a solid basis for taking actions that will raise productivity. Consider the case of a company selling basic supplies to businesses. But some behavior was surprising.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

Since then, we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks who follow technology companies. CFOs of these companies themselves admit that they cannot justify their market capitalizations based on traditional metrics.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2018

It was a national distributor of milk and other dairy products and in it, farmers occupied two roles. ” Take the case of a recent client of mine, an architectural firm. Once it adopted the six-step method, these outcomes were identified as “reducing employee turnover and increasing productivity and innovation.”

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Martinka Consulting

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The most powerful message came from Brian Quint with Aqua Quip, who sold to Leslie’s Pools a couple years ago (hear more from Brian on his podcast interview with me). Is it expertise, the products, services, process, or IP? In both cases the more prep time you put in the better the results. Know these things. Conclusion.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The world is replete with SWOT mechanisms for evaluating a prospective new product offering, as well as opportunity assessment templates for evaluating a project against overall business goals, customer impact, strategic potential, and competitive urgency. In my case, if an opportunity requires me to grow, I will rank it a 5.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The job interview is often the best opportunity to accurately separate out people who have this relatively rare talent from the high volume of candidates that only have tactical capabilities. Instead, use one of these six interview approaches. Ask Specific Interview Questions. Give Them a Real Problem to Solve.

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2018

We visited and interviewed farmers in Italy, Germany, and the UK to find out why the platform had bombed. Surprisingly, the interviews did not reveal any unequivocal reasons for why farmers shunned the platform. The transactional layer can be found in most products and services. How to Identify and Create the Emotional Layer.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2017

In the case of cybersecurity, some decision makers use the wrong mental models to help them determine how much investment is necessary and where to invest. It’s not just about data corruption — it’s also about how the bad data will reduce operational efficiency and bring production lines to a standstill.

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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. Perhaps your direct reports tend to get promoted faster or your team is more productive.

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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. But what’s different is that it adds a twist by having product-related questions as well. What does it do?

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

When we recently interviewed top M&A executives in Europe about their experience, fully three-quarters of them said that digital disruption has had a relatively large impact or even requires a complete overhaul of their M&A strategy. Few executives appear prepared for the challenges of digital M&A.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

To look into this question, I conducted a case study as part of my dissertation research involving 23 women of color at a Fortune 500 company. Sixteen women were interviewed and seven others participated in a focus group. And what factors helped or hindered advancement in their organization? They pursue management challenges.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 16, 2016

BTS GROUP INTERVIEWS AND CULTURE. Household Products. BTS GROUP INTERVIEWS. There is quite a bit of variety in the interview process for a consulting position at BTS; the process can take anywhere from two days to over three months. Round two is with a Manager, and is a standard case interview. Technology.

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Chad Barr

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Pinpoint the strategic intent: brand promotion, website enhancement, product launches, episodic social media content, or conceptualizing an online course. Conduct a Competitor Audit Dissect competitors’ video styles and engagement metrics. Delve into various formats: structured interviews, engaging Q&A sessions.

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Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

Interview an expert. Interviewing a potential client. Case studies. Selling productized consulting. By starting your own podcast, and interviewing other thought-leaders in your industry for your episodes, you’ll become a fantastic resource for your industry. Interview an Expert. Video presentations.

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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). It is unclear why this is the case. This game evaluates the candidate’s ability to solve problems efficiently and think critically.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Corporate leaders are becoming convinced of the impact that effective data collection and analysis can have on the bottom line, from tracking daily reports against Key Performance Indicators to make informed decisions on where to spend marketing dollars, to monitoring and evaluating customer communications to adjust product offerings.

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CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

It has long championed inclusion as a partial solution to business challenges like turnover, productivity, profitability, and customer satisfaction. LEK is a very selective firm — it was named one of the Top 25 Hardest Companies to Interview For by Fortune. Cases may be understaffed, creating extra hours and large workloads.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

In our new research , the result of interviews with more than 100 client-side practitioners from a variety of industries, we examine four of the best practices brands can follow to create the most impact with online communities. Unfortunately, there exists no single, magic-bullet metric that satisfies these requirements for every community.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Great stories are credible, simple, consistent, and use both financial and nonfinancial metrics to link a long-term vision and firm values with a distinctive business strategy and focused operational priorities. ” Many CEOs in our interviews emphasized the importance of choosing the right metrics to support both/and decision making.

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Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2016

I’ve interviewed thousands of candidates for managerial roles and tracked the performance of those I successfully hired. against the average scores for those metrics from all the executives in our worldwide database. I led the global management appraisal practice of our own executive search firm, Egon Zehnder. Learning to Learn.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

We interviewed over forty successful leaders from a variety of organizations (corporate, non-profit, startup), across different industries. For example, when Seraina Macia (one of the leaders we interviewed) joined XL Insurance in 2010 to head their North American Property and Casualty unit, it was a stable, but slow-growth business.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The team used an outside consultant with experience in automotive product design to train and coach the leader and team members in the new capability. Interview questions were designed to test applicants for these traits. ” Some interview questions were used to test multiple competencies at once.

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