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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). When I buy a new product, the first thing I do is throw out the product manual. If you’re not great at finance, hire someone who is.

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Understanding the Rationale

CaseInterview.com

If your VP of sales wants to change the sales compensation plan, you want to ask. If your VP of engineering wants to do a complete technical redesign of your flagship product, you want to ask. If your VP of finance wants to refinance your line of credit with a different bank, you want to ask. I call this technique.

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Options for Post Consulting Careers

CaseInterview.com

I imagine someone interested in product/marketing management is better off going into industry. Or are clients unhappy because your products stink? Or a problem involving sales and marketing over-selling and over-promising in their messages, causing the client to have unrealistic expectations? Work in product management.

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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. Operational Cases: Operations Case, Increasing Sales, Reducing Costs, Improving the Bottom Line, Turnarounds.

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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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Hilarious Transcripts of Fed Minutes from 2008 Reveal Completely Clueless Fed

MishTalk

January 9, 2008 : Telephone Conference Meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee Staff Report : The incoming data on spending and production have, on net, led us to revise up our estimate of real GDP growth in 2007:Q4 by about 1-1/4 percentage points relative to the December Greenbook. We’ve had obviously very low sales for a period.

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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. Electricity led to enormous productivity gains only when factory layout was revisited and optimized for the new technology.