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What are interviewers from consulting firms really looking for?

Tom Spencer

So maybe you’ve gotten to the second round, maybe you’re still waiting to hear back, or maybe you’re hoping to interview again in the next recruitment cycle. Regardless of whichever bucket you fall into, it always helps to see things from the interviewers’ perspective. Here are the top three things they’re looking for: 1.

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Case Math

Tom Spencer

In this post we outline some mathematical concepts that may prove useful for solving consulting case questions. Return on Investment: ROI is a performance measure that a company can use to evaluate the efficiency of an investment or to compare a number of different investments. (Source: Flickr ).

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Why Companies Are Creating Their Own Coworking Spaces

Harvard Business

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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A Guarantee: The Most Powerful Brand for your Business

The Fearless Marketer

In the course of our conversations, he mentioned that 82% of his clients got a 10:1 ROI on their training investment. In most cases, a professional services guarantee doesn’t offer money back, but promises you’ll produce a certain result within an agreed-upon time period. That’s both impressive and significant.

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Can Publishing Your Ideas Bring You Business?

Emerson Consulting Group

A 36,000% ROI Suggests It Can. When the dust settled after all the interviews with all the candidates were over, Steve, Henry, and I had won the business. In that case I had been the one to place the phone call and set up a get-together, which also resulted in an agreement between Henry and me to work together.

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Business Valuation Lessons From ESOPs

Martinka Consulting

One of my roles was being on the team interviewing the critical (and very expensive) ESOP advisors. In every case the answer was, “the valuation.” A well-run company rated a 5 out of six (a 20% ROI) is now an 8.33 (same rating percentage but now a 12% ROI).

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Blockchain for Supply Chain – Insights from Berlin

Tom Spencer

years ago my touchpoints with blockchain increased, for example, while writing my master degree thesis on “Possible Applications on Health Data and Health Insurance” I interviewed someone in the health space that was working on a blockchain project for his health data startup. At the time I only associated it with cryptocurrency and banking.