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Competitive Advantage in Consulting and in Life

CaseInterview.com

My thoughts on this topic are widely applicable to CIBs (Case Interview Beginners), F1Ys (Future first years), and CIFMs (Consulting Isn't for Me). No, I'm pretty sure I could beat him in a case interview competition! But, I'm half-decent at this case interview thing. She works for one of the major fashion labels.

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The Perfect Hypothesis Opening Statement

CaseInterview.com

There's no way I would have been as confident as I was in the final round interview, if I had not used your Look Over My Shoulder ® Program. Asking for the rate itself would have been more efficient, but it wasn't an option in this context.). Thank you so much for all of your help throughout the process. How refreshing.".

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15 Best Business Podcasts for Independent Consultants

Tsavo Neal

Unleashed by Will Bachman Unleashed offers long-form interviews with successful top-tier independent management consultants. We discuss what actually works in generating business, from writing books to organizing events to old-fashioned relationship building. [These podcasts are listed in no particular order.].

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3 Ways to Make Time for the Little Tasks You Never Make Time For

Harvard Business

After one extended trip abroad during which he avoided email, he wrote that he had missed a large number of critical messages, including a fulfillment center crisis that caused him to lose more than 20% of monthly orders for his business, media interview opportunities that had expired, and more than a dozen partnership offers.

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Business Lessons from Henry David Thoreau

Emerson Consulting Group

So inspired to uncover a solution to this, Henry took himself back to Harvard for a week to engage in an MBA-like “independent study” project, specifically aimed at how to fashion a “recipe” for pencil lead that would transform Thoreau pencils into an efficient product that everyone could use and love.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

To support the office’s growing employee base, Bain moved in 2015 to a new location in the fashionable Grace Building, which is located directly across the street from historic Bryant Park. Fun fact: the project’s installation of energy-efficient lighting was one of New York City’s largest lighting retrofits ever.

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To Get Consumers to Trust AI, Show Them Its Benefits

Harvard Business

Our semi-structured interviews, follow-ups, and archival data analysis was guided by a theoretical discussion on how trust in the technology and in the innovating firm and its communication is facilitated. For efficient collaboration between humans and machines, the appropriate level of automation must be carefully defined.