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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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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 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. I call this technique. Understanding the Rationale.”. Explain it to me. Did I get it right?

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Can Bitcoin Be Regulated?

Tom Spencer

banking industry is still subject to federal rules on financial transactions relating to the sale or purchase of marijuana. She is also an author, journalist and has just obtained her EMBA from the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management. The reason is that the U.S. Image: Pexels.

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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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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

Much of the upward revision is in consumer spending and reflects the November figures on retail sales and PCE services. Dudley : The monoline insurers don’t have to mark to market the consequences of the deterioration in, say, the structured-finance product they insured. We’ve had obviously very low sales for a period.