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Consulting or Banking

Tom Spencer

This post provides you with a high level comparison of management consulting and investment banking. Within an investment bank, the work is split into many roles including investment banking, sales and trading, equity research, risk management, operations, and technology. Nature of the job.

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Know Your Weaknesses

CaseInterview.com

If you’re not great at finance, hire someone who is. If you’re not great at sales, find someone who is. In comparison, life is so much easier and far more successful if you pursue career opportunities that are in your “sweet spot” of skills. These are all great careers… for the right person.

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Succeeding at the Edge of Discomfort

CaseInterview.com

In comparison, let's say you lift a weight 6 times comfortably, but the 7th and 8th repetitions are very uncomfortable. Once I understood how to do market entry strategy, they had me do sales force performance optimization. Got good at sales? Ran a finance organization? The reason why? There is no tension. No discomfort.

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The COVID-19 Scalability Problem

CaseInterview.com

If you have a surge in qualified leads but aren’t closing them, you know the constraint in the overall system lies in the sales team. His foundation has decided to provide the financing to build seven vaccine manufacturing factories — one for each of the seven most promising vaccines currently in clinical trials.

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Business Valuation and Deals During COVID, and Other Turmoil

Martinka Consulting

Before I get into valuation, here are some other things I expect we’ll see: More seller financing, in fact banks are already indicating they want more seller financing. More emphasis on current financial statements, meaning monthly statements with comparisons to the previous year. Most financial buyers won’t want a hurt company.

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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

And, of course, their claim to fame, Financial Services , is broken down into even more practices including: Finance and Risk. Corporate and Finance and Advisory. In comparison to many strategy consulting firms, Oliver Wyman consultants tend to specialize earlier in their career. Corporate and Institutional Banking.

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CFO Branding 101

Free Agent CFO

In a recent example, he revealed that the prospect was controlling the conversation and appeared to have the upper hand with pricing since he was comparison shopping. I cannot deny it, but I’d prefer to be the guy that people say, “Man, he’s super creative for a finance geek.” I don’t like that brand.