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Acing the Case Study Assessment

freshminds

The Case Study of the consulting interview process may seem like the most daunting part for some. McKinsey - Four practice case studies to work from here. Accenture - has an excellent array of videos on youtube for general information about the work they do with plenty of interviews with current consultants.

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Advisory Board Company Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Washington Business Journal Fastest Growing Companies in DC Region—2013. Finalist, Washington Business Journal, Business Philanthropy Awards—2013, 2012, 2009. Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards, Overall Excellence for Broadband Media (web only)— California Healthline , 2013. These interviews are usually held in the office.

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From STEM PhD to Federal Consulting: An Interview with Josh

Management Consulted

Here at MC, we had the pleasure of recently interviewing Josh and asking him how he’s navigated his interesting career path, and how consulting was a great place for his passions and skills to collide. It was one of the first studies conducted on the newer, lightweight snowshoes and was cited in over 100 lay journals.

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4 Ways to Develop Practical Business Understanding for Consulting

Management Consulted

Many history, English, and art majors, engineers, and law students – all of interest to consulting firms, but lacking in business basics – come to us asking how they can develop their business understanding to prepare for consulting interviews. The 2 Smartest Case Study Techniques. On Competition by Michael Porter.

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Being an Ethical Business in a Corrupt Environment

Harvard Business

Research Note Our study is based on 120 semi-structured interviews with the subjects of five organizations in India , Zimbabwe , and Egypt. We developed research case studies on two companies and teaching case studies on four companies.

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The Wheaties Box and the Why of Celebrity Endorsements

Harvard Business

” According to HBS professor Anita Elberse, who has studied this issue in depth, marketers’ decision making is pretty straightforward. As she explained in this interview , “Companies try to find athletes with attributes that match those of the products the athlete is asked to endorse.” And when do they backfire?

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Unnecessary Surgeries? You Bet! Doctors Treat Patients as ATMs; US Healthcare System Explained in Six Succinct Points

MishTalk

A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that profits urologists make from referring patients to their own radiation facilities play an outsized role in the treatment decisions. It’s crazy the way the system is set up,” Mitchell said in a telephone interview. Self-Referral. Spinal Fusion Cash Cow.