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An Insider’s Look at The Case Interview Scoring System

Management Consulted

Sandy Lerner, co-founder of Cisco Systems, once summed up consulting interviews perfectly when she said, “The first rule of any game is to know you’re in one.”. In the research you’ve been doing into the wild world of management consulting, you should have noticed how important the case interview is on your road to a job offer.

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Case Study: Are Our Customer Liaisons Helping or Hurting?

Harvard Business

Exit interviews were usually handled by junior managers on the HR team, but Amrita felt that given the high rate of attrition among doctors at Krisna over the past year, it was her responsibility as head of HR to talk to Dr. Vishnu Patel, a respected cardiologist who’d just given his notice. Ben Edwards/Getty Images.

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Consulting Case Anatomy – A Simple Breakdown

Management Consulted

As a prospective consultant, one of the things that can seem the most mysterious in the case study prep process is wondering what the interviewer is going to ask you next. Many of you have heard about interviewer-led and interviewee-led case interviews and are wondering how to approach each one appropriately.

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How to Manage Managers

Harvard Business

Do you need to provide training? ” In most organizations, “first-timers don’t get a lot of formal training,” says Hill. The best training for someone learning to become a manager is individualized attention from you, their boss. Go through the same training. What the Experts Say. Give them space.

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Make Data a Cornerstone of Your Team

Harvard Business

Take this opportunity to educate other teams in the organization by clarifying how the team was able to successfully leverage data to validate the demand in this new vertical — from setting up customer interviews, to tracking responses in a spreadsheet and reviewing them as a team. Install a TV showing a few data dashboards.

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Positioning Yourself As The Expert — How To Develop A Consulting Voice That Clients Will Listen To with Ron Carucci: Podcast #21

Consulting Success

I studied arts and it was my initial formal training. During some of the conversation afterwards, one of the young American military personnel, probably not much older than me, stood up in the conversation and he very emotionally, in a very heartrending way said, “I’m just so tired of being trained to hate.”

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business

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?