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Know Your Weaknesses

CaseInterview.com

I’m terrible at attention to detail (it hurts my brain too much) and even worse at anything aesthetically oriented (anything from fashion to website design to creating visually impactful slides). If you’re not great at finance, hire someone who is. They are very fun to work with. I have two really big weaknesses.

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Understanding the Rationale

CaseInterview.com

If your VP of finance wants to refinance your line of credit with a different bank, you want to ask. You want to do this in a step-by-step fashion. If your VP of sales wants to change the sales compensation plan, you want to ask. Notice a theme?). The first red flag is if you ask “why?” and you don’t get an answer. Explain it to me.

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Blockchain For Managers

Tom Spencer

It will be impossible for this group to escape further formal education or work experience that requires them to understand, deal with, or implement blockchain in some form or fashion. She is also an author, journalist and has just obtained her EMBA from the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management. Take a course on blockchain.

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Companies Used to Share How Each Dollar of Revenue Was Spent

Harvard Business

Why these disclosures went out of fashion — and how to bring them back.

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Research: Writing a Business Plan Makes Your Startup More Likely to Succeed

Harvard Business

” It is a school of thought now fashionable in entrepreneurship circles. This includes everything from past entrepreneurial experience to the need for external finance and the urge to grow the business or to innovate. Better-financed startups are more likely to succeed. So are more experienced entrepreneurs.

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Options for Post Consulting Careers

CaseInterview.com

Work for one of the major fashion designers in NYC. Worked in finance at Pepsi, HBS, Brand manager at Oral-B. * Worked in finance at Pepsi, HBS, Brand manager at Oral-B. * If you went to work for a fashion designer on the design side, I think consulting would be a liability. Go get a PhD in Psychology. *

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Customer intent is a treasure trove of actionable data hiding in plain sight

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And inquiries about loyalty rewards were common across nearly all industries — retail, public sector, automotive and manufacturing, travel and tourism, insurance, finance. Better insights = happy customers Luke Lee, CEO of PalaLeather , a fashion company and retailer, agrees that customer insights are essential.

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