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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. If you’re not great at sales, find someone who is.

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The consulting case study: What you need to know

freshminds

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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Options for Post Consulting Careers

CaseInterview.com

Or a problem involving sales and marketing over-selling and over-promising in their messages, causing the client to have unrealistic expectations? 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. *

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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

Some of the major practice areas that the NYC region focuses on are corporate development, corporate finance, digital economy, globalization, growth, information technology, marketing & sales operations, people and organization, post merger integration, risk management, strategy, sustainability, and transformation.

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Designing the Machines That Will Design Strategy

Harvard Business

LTCM was founded, in 1994, by some of the best minds in finance theory, including two Nobel Prize winners. Within this machine, people and technology must each play their particular roles in an integrated fashion. But it’s dangerous and naïve to assume that better technology and more data guarantee better outcomes.

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A Blueprint for Digital Companies’ Financial Reporting

Harvard Business

In a follow up HBR article , we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks and distilled seven key insights from those discussions. Digital companies must be performing such assessments in-house to reward their sales and marketing staff.

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6 Reasons Salespeople Win or Lose a Sale

Harvard Business

Why does a salesperson lose a sale? However, in the majority of interviews buyers rank all the feature sets of the competing products as being roughly equal. The sales department equally preferred having a salesperson listen and solve their needs and being challenged; HR was equally split across all three selling styles.

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