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Transitioning from Management Consulting to Corporate Strategy/M&A – the Interview Process

Tom Spencer

Interviews. After going through a handful of interviews through referrals, direct reach out from HR/hiring team, and LinkedIn/company website applications I would categorize my interviews into three buckets: Corporate strategy. Corporate development. Multiple hiring team interviews (case + fit). Corporate Strategy.

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Investment Banking 101: Understanding the Industry

Tom Spencer

This will provide you with the necessary foundation in financial concepts and analysis that will allow you to present well in the interview and hit the ground running from day one. This can help you develop your skills and knowledge, as well as give you a better understanding of the industry and which role would suit you best.

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Is It Time to Consider a Fixed Fee for Your Consulting Services?

Successful Independent Consulting

You know you’re going to have to interview each of the division heads and other functional leaders, but you can leverage the interview questions from the last assessment you did. Plus, you’ve developed a good system for interpreting interview data.

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Management Consulting

CaseInterview.com

They evaluate issues that the client is facing and help them develop action plans for improvement. This may involve traveling to the client’s site to collect data, interview employees, and examine daily operations. I always develop specific criteria to measure the success of my recommendations.

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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business

Since then, we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks who follow technology companies. Business students are taught to value a company based on the discounted amounts of future cash flows or earnings.

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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business

Immediately after joining Nikon, he decided to interview some of them. Thanks to the analysis, Nikon could identify and then interview past investors to understand the reasons they had purchased and then sold their Nikon shares. What he heard was uncomfortable.

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3 Things Driving Entrepreneurial Growth in Africa

Harvard Business

We recently interviewed 100 entrepreneurs to find out which ventures are most likely to thrive. Or there’s Nairobi’s SuzieBeauty, which develops cosmetics catering to African tastes at quality matching Western levels. Another reason is that investors are myopically infatuated with snazzy technology.