Successful Independent Consulting

JANUARY 20, 2017

My company represents self-employed professionals across the country, and over the last seven years I have interviewed, coached, or worked with more than 200 independent management consultants. I know a highly talented professional with over 20 years of experience with several Fortune 500 companies. The exact opposite is true.

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Consulting Turnaround Exercises Technology Implementation 150

Management Consulted

MARCH 29, 2015

Because of this, we sat down with consulting veteran Lisa Bright (who is now part of the MC interview coaching team!) The school I was at isn’t one of McKinsey’s core schools, so I had to do a lot of reading online to prepare for the interview, get accustomed to case interviews and stuff like that. That was rough.

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McKinsey Interviews Case Interview Consulting 100

Tom Spencer

JULY 13, 2019

Some of the most notable specialisations include healthcare, IT or tech, and turnaround consulting. Although IT consulting firms can be big shops such as Gartner and Infosys, healthcare and turnaround consulting firms tend to be more boutique in nature. Internal Corporate Strategy Consulting.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 26, 2019

The PARADE Method (tm) is an approach to answering resume-oriented job interview questions. It is an approach I developed that is tailored for answering these questions in job interviews for management consulting, as well as interviews for senior executive positions in industry. Interviewers want to know what you did.

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Case Interview Interviews Resumes Retail 81

Tom Spencer

JULY 2, 2015

A large American beverage company acquired a fruit juice company for $350 million five years ago with the goal to increase revenues tenfold. A large Korean electronics company is thinking about entering the market for tablet computers. A South Korean company is acquiring a U.S. What should the company do?

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Consulting Turnaround Case Interview Retail 60

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

of Fortune 500 companies are run by female CEOs, and while there is incremental progress — there are 32 female CEOs this year, the highest percentage ever, compared with only 21 last year — the rate of change can feel excruciatingly slow. Harry Haysom/Getty Images. Women could be ready for the CEO role sooner.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

My experience with even the most successful global companies is that they’re between average and poor at developing future talent. Both of those leaders are now CEOs — one of a $10 billion retail chain and another of a specialty eyewear company. Identify experts inside and outside your company. Request an interview.

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Turnaround Interviews Development Management 28

Peter Stark

JANUARY 30, 2018

So focused on his and his own team’s results that he was willing to throw others in the company under the bus. Conduct one-on-one interviews. Use the highlights of the interviews to customize a survey to address specific concerns as well as his strengths to gain quantifiable data on leadership competencies.

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freshminds

MARCH 5, 2018

Investment banking case studies are a lot more quantitative and tend to focus on reading financial statements and based on a corporate finance deal e.g. a company going public on the stock market. The Ivy Case is a system created by a Harvard professor who coached students for interviews at top-tier consultancies such as McKinsey.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

When a private equity firm adds a new company to its portfolio, analysts rigorously size up its financial, operational, and competitive condition. Yet even with all that knowledge and effort, many private equity companies still don’t do a good job when it comes to deciding whether to keep the CEO in place or select a new CEO.

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Harvard Business

JULY 27, 2016

Steve Jobs had just returned to the company and the product line was a shamble of computers with confusing names, printers, scanners, and a curious, yet ill-conceived PDA called the Newton. The outlook for Apple was bleak — most media wrote the company off as a shadow of its former self. Value reporters time. Be hands on.

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Peter Stark

OCTOBER 13, 2019

In the nine months I endured this toxic environment, three of my good team members quit the company. One employee we were interviewing told us that working at his corporation was almost like a religious experience. For example, we recently interviewed an employee who described her work environment as toxic.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 11, 2017

To focus that attention and transform the companies in their portfolios, PE firms are establishing a new role that we call a leadership capital partner (LCP). We interviewed roughly 30 LCPs to get a sense of how this new role is shaping up. The LCP’s Role with Portfolio Companies.

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Leadership Talent Culture Turnaround 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Many legacy companies would like to transform themselves into agile, talent-first organizations. Volvo’s turnaround over the last decade offers a great example. “Technically, cars today are very different from ten years ago,” says Sällström, whom we interviewed for our book, Talent Wins.

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Talent Engineering Case Interview Turnaround 28

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Managers rarely yell, coworkers try to help each other out whenever possible, and companies are organized to provide consultants support with training, expertise, etc. In addition, you’ll have limited exposure across the company to other groups, departments, etc – less ability to network across the company.

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Banking Boston Consulting Group Consulting Management 272

ConsultX

AUGUST 10, 2021

A one-stop turnaround plan, Conquer the Chaos lays out a complete path to make your business run smoothly and provide you with the freedom you desire. Focus - Al Ries Summary: If your company has lost the focus it once had, here are clear solutions for moving your organization back to its key service and discarding everything else.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

You accept your first job as a manager in a fast growth tech company, thinking: “How much different could this be from my former company—a financial services firm? Half of your colleagues worked above, below or alongside each other in previous companies. We then interviewed more than a dozen U.S.

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Talent Culture Turnaround Interviews 28

Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Bain & Company. Booz & Company. McKinsey & Company. Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Bain & Company. Bain & Company (Hong Kong). Founded in 1973 when Bill Bain and others left BCG to form Bain & Company. IMS Health.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2016

. “I wanted to highlight some of the progress we have made in mobile, which is another big strategic area for us,” he told listeners , noting that Google Maps was becoming popular for Blackberry users and later adding that it was critical that the company make sure all its content worked on phones.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2016

And on the rare occasions when you do land an interview, you stumble over questions about what you’d bring to the hiring company and why you’re the perfect fit. So how can you make your resume, profile, and interview more effective? How to Get the Most Out of an Informational Interview. Career Transitions.

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

Based on my interviews, reported response rates averaged from 60% to 80%, with some campaigns actually hitting 100%. Once you’ve gone through the trouble of arranging the meeting, it would be a waste to ruin it with a misguided pitch of your company’s product or service. But his core business is turnaround consulting.

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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2016

The research involved conducting and coding 88 in-depth behavioral event interviews of leading change with 65 leaders, spread across multiple industries and from across five continents. One CEO I interviewed, the leader of an international charity, went much further. Another executive I interviewed reflected on this.

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Culture Turnaround Interviews Hotels 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 3, 2018

Through historical research and many interviews, we found several ways in which early stumbles in the organic wine market created marketing problems that the industry still struggles to overcome. The Turnaround. Why the difference? ” Organic wine was not strongly embraced by distributors and retailers, either.

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Chemicals Retail Case Interview Turnaround 35

Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Bain & Company. Booz & Company. Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. A&M specialises in turnaround and interim management, performance management and business advisory services. APT provides software and consulting services for consumer-focused companies.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 4, 2016

He had spent his entire 14-year career at the company, had worked hard, and had rapidly climbed the ranks in sales and marketing. The culmination was his promotion to business unit leader for Plastic Resins, one of the company’s best-performing units. He inherited a strong team with a proven track record.

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Turnaround Chemicals Study Company 28

CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In the case interview process for McKinsey, one of the early evaluations is “Solve,” McKinsey’s digital assessment game (formerly called the McKinsey Problem Solving Game). You’re provided a history of all pricing changes from all companies in the industry (including your client).

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Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2016

I’ve interviewed thousands of candidates for managerial roles and tracked the performance of those I successfully hired. Japan’s educational institutions and cultural work ethic give its managers a jump-start in their careers, but most companies don’t continue the development process as far as it could go.

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Turnaround Engineering Leadership Case Interview 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The CEOs in our study were adept at telling their company’s story. Essential to the story is the company’s purpose. Fred Lynch, CEO of Masonite, a 92-year-old company that manufactures interior doors and entry door systems, created a long-term value creation thesis that he called the Masonite “blueprint.”

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