Remove Case Studies Remove Finance Remove Presentation Remove Recruiting
article thumbnail

Case Study: An Office Romance Gone Wrong

Harvard Business

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. He led the finance team. Claudia was the newest recruit to the sales team—young, eager, pretty. They want me to watch you give your presentation.”

article thumbnail

Consulting Case Interviews at Non-Consulting Firms

Tom Spencer

As such, I’ve increasingly seen case interviews being used to recruit for corporate strategy roles in all sectors and business operation (“BizOps”) roles at startups. Now, case interviews for non-consulting industries tend to really intimidate candidates.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Conversation with 2020 Delivery

Tom Spencer

We’re not going to send you to Canary Wharf to work in finance. We also have particular training courses around client engagement, presenting in meetings, and presentation skills so that people get an equal balance of hard analytical skills and soft engagement skills. We recruit for experienced hires on a rolling basis.

article thumbnail

A.T. Kearney Interview & Culture

Management Consulted

1997 – First Global Prize, an annual business school case study competition for potential recruits, awarded. Working anywhere from the strategy related to the business unit to corporate finance and strategy to strategic foresight, A.T. KEARNEY INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. Kearney recruits outside the U.S.

article thumbnail

From STEM PhD to Federal Consulting: An Interview with Josh

Management Consulted

Well, I grew up in Bethesda, MD, and attended the University of Vermont in Burlington, VT for – BS (finance), MS (nutritional sciences), and PhD (cell and molecular biology). A few years later I was recruited for a position by one of the government consulting companies who had previously made me a contingent offer.

article thumbnail

Want Less-Biased Decisions? Use Algorithms.

Harvard Business

Real-world applications range from medical diagnoses and judicial sentencing to professional recruiting and resource allocation in public agencies. ” Lastly, by looking at historical data on publicly traded companies, a team of finance professors set out to build an algorithm to choose the best board members for a given company.

article thumbnail

Top 50 blogs, magazines and websites for consultants

QEmploy

Since Gartner is a global research and consulting firm that provides information, advice and tools to companies within IT, finance, marketing, you can expect to find useful articles on these areas on their blog. Finance Monthly. His articles are well written, easy to read and informative. . Hinge Marketing. Steve Tobak. Consulting Mag.