Martinka Consulting

JULY 15, 2017

Yes, I know there are websites like Glass Door but just like Amazon reviews you don’t know if you’re getting phony reviews glorifying the company or product or if someone ripped something to shreds because one screw was missing, the color was slightly different than expected, etc. Here’s what happened.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 13, 2019

What you will learn: Learn the basics of a case interview – what it is, how they are different from a regular job interview, who uses them, why they are used, and the types of case interview formats and the difference between them. Topics Covered: What is a Case Interview? Who Uses Case Interviews and Why?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The most common ways of doing this are to send executives to build personal relationships with international business partners and to hire local distribution partners — or independent, third-party intermediaries — to represent their products or services overseas. For example, consider Dez Blanchfield , whom I interviewed.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

And at Greycroft, a venture capital firm, investor Teddy Citrin has laid out a veritable map for the further disruption of every consumer products category. Plug-and-play e-commerce technology, search engine optimization, and other distribution solutions are making it ever easier for products to directly reach consumers.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Marketers need to master data analytics, customer experience, and product design. To explore this question, we interviewed senior marketing executives across dozens of top brands. This includes the product, the buying process, the ability to provide support, and customer relationships over time. The metrics also changed.

Marketing 49

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

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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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 10, 2019

Like a consulting interview, a product manager (PM) interview consists of multiple parts, including a case study and a behavioral portion, which looks for communication, management, and prioritization skills. But what’s different is that it adds a twist by having product-related questions as well. Which product to pick?

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Productivity Interviews Case Interview Fashion 60

Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2018

” So she booked a flight to New York City, called the founder back, and said, “Hey, I’m coming down for an interview. Innovate a product or service from within your position. After hanging up, she started thinking, “I can add value to this company, and they clearly need the value that I could add.”

Chemicals 52

Chemicals Banking Film Fashion 52

Emerson Consulting Group

MAY 7, 2019

Pencil manufacturing in the US at the time was extremely competitive, with many pencil “products” lacking the reliably fine-point consistency we are accustomed to today. Drawing on his Harvard-acquired study and research skills, he soon located a solution that in fact had already been put into practice in France.

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Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2017

The term “authenticity” has become a buzzword among organizational leaders, with employers encouraging job candidates and employees to bring their whole selves to interviews or the workplace. By 1799, the fashion landscape was primed for redefinition and adjustments to previous styles. But at what cost?

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Buzzsprout

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Celebrity interviews Having celebrities on your podcast is a huge draw to new listeners and can help you get featured on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Product reviews Help take the guesswork out of purchases by doing product reviews for your listeners. Hands on Tech Kad's Review: Boxes and Products Explored 6.

Interviews 52

Interviews Travel Fashion Sports 52

Harvard Business

JANUARY 4, 2018

Conducting in depth interviews with 50 people who’d dramatically improved their self-awareness to learn about the key actions that helped them get there, as well as their beliefs and practices. The highly self-aware people we interviewed were actively focused on balancing the scale. Take Jeremiah, a marketing manager.

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How To Case Interview Research Study 73

Harvard Business

AUGUST 2, 2017

Interviews with buyers illustrate seven important lessons about the mistakes salespeople make and why they lose business. In other words, a product’s strategic value comprises the reasons and arguments that buyers provide to senior management and others in the company about why they should purchase a product.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

The saying “You only have one chance to make a first impression” holds true in many situations, from job interviews to sales calls. Perhaps your direct reports tend to get promoted faster or your team is more productive. ” It could be a new assignment at work, upcoming travel, or a new product lineup.

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Prudent Pedal

JANUARY 21, 2020

Buyer’s journey mapping has grown in importance for professional services firms as more firm solutions have become productized. It’s just a good old-fashioned understanding of client needs, combined with intelligent segmentation, aligned with consultative selling, and assisted by technology.

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Harvard Business

JULY 27, 2018

Consultants are sometimes accused of trying to hoodwink their clients with smoke and mirrors, using management fashions or buzzwords for their own benefit. Consultants deal with three types of threats to their self-image: competence threats, acceptance threats, and productivity threats. Their fakery is not cynical, but sincere.

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Consulting Fashion Management Study 53

Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Under new ownership (Volvo was sold to China’s Geely by Ford in 2010), the Swedish automaker decided to transform its product line by becoming a premium player. “Technically, cars today are very different from ten years ago,” says Sällström, whom we interviewed for our book, Talent Wins.

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Talent Engineering Case Interview Turnaround 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

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. The company’s first revenues indicate the acceptance of its product or services by customers.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

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. The main industries served out of New York include Public Services, Products, and not surprisingly, the Financial Industry.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

We got under the skin of each organization, to understand how they live and breathe, by interviewing people who work (or worked) with them, observing them in action and reading everything about them. We spent five years interviewing thousands of people, making thousands of observations and reading hundreds of documents.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2016

Within this machine, people and technology must each play their particular roles in an integrated fashion. But although conventional due diligence for a deal involves deep market research and repeated rounds of interviews with founders and key customers, Correlation focuses on documentary information.

Strategy 28

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Bad Writing Is Destroying Your Company’s Productivity. If I were giving bad news to someone I’d interviewed for a job, I might tweak it a bit, but the basic format would stay the same: [Their name], Thanks for making the time to talk with me last week. You and Your Team Series. Business Writing. Josh Bernoff. Maggy McGloin.

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Examples Case Interview Research Guidelines 34

Consulting Matters

JANUARY 22, 2020

Interview Transcript: Betsy: Good afternoon. The other thing is we want to make sure that we're able to clear out toxins which inhibit the production of hormones and nutrients and their function. They've actually done some studies now to show that the 35-hour work week is more productive than the 45-hour work week.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2017

Over the past three years, I conducted a research project on men, masculinity, and fashion. It’s more common in the arts and fashion industries, but men also choose to dress fabulously in professional organizations. These men varied across races, ethnicities, body types, sexual orientations, occupations, and clothing styles.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2017

There’s a tendency to assume that the salesperson lost because their product was inferior in some way. However, in the majority of interviews buyers rank all the feature sets of the competing products as being roughly equal. For “price conscious” buyers, product price is a top decision-making factor.

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Confessions of a Consultant

AUGUST 12, 2018

Management consulting can be likened to a ‘fashion business’, in the sense that new ideas fall in and out of vogue all the time. A noticeable drop in productivity or a change in work habits e.g. reduced hours. The interviewer replies, “ Yeah, but you started it.”. Keep focused on your best people. Are you kidding?”.

Talent 40

Talent Case Interview Engineering Interviews 40

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

But if you can offer something that readers will perceive as valuable — an e-book, a link to a sought-after webinar, or access to otherwise-private video interviews, for instance — then they’ll likely be willing to at least give your email list a chance. My email list grew only marginally. Here’s how it works.

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MishTalk

APRIL 30, 2014

Hufbauer said in an interview that Putin’s response is likely to be limited, because any pain he inflicts on Russia’s trade partners and investors can boomerang on him. “I trillion gross domestic product, according to Michael Corgan, a professor of international relations at Boston University. trillion U.S. economy or the EU’s $17.4

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Government Fashion Report Energy 67

CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In the case interview process for McKinsey, one of the early evaluations is “Solve,” McKinsey’s digital assessment game (formerly called the McKinsey Problem Solving Game). This will allow you to move through the creation of a system in a linear fashion. So a bottom-up approach works. A top-down approach also works.

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

An outside-in perspective means that companies aim to creatively deliver something of value to customers, rather than focus simply on products and sales. And Gulati’s research, including interviews with 500 executives spanning industries and geographies, asserts that outside-in success is not confined to any one sector.

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Education Real Estate Research Company 30

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2018

“I see my task as serving the majority of people,” he said in an interview to Forbes. Participants who interviewed their partners did not believe they guessed more questions right than participants in our other conditions. “The question is, how do you find out what they want?”

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Confessions of a Consultant

MAY 28, 2017

Being able to run errands e.g. to pop around to the Supermarket – if you need to – decreases stress (and increases productivity). The Internet video that went viral (the guy completing the Skype interview in Korea) shows the importance of having boundaries. Less dry-cleaning bills! What about heat and light?

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

A few years after our visit, Kelly wrote an influential article on his personal blog that captures the conundrum of shifting to an exponential mindset: [W]hile progress runs on exponential curves, our individual lives proceed in a linear fashion. One example comes from Patrick Thomas , CEO of the advanced materials company Covestro.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 18, 2017

Now, branded items — from luxury cosmetics to fast food and fast fashion — are becoming widely available at the glittering new shopping malls scattered around the region’s fast-growing cities. This perception leads MNCs to overestimate demand for status-enhancing products. Author’s Photo).

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Marketing Productivity Data Education 28

MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Clinton's sub-40% favorable ratings in 1992 were mostly a product of the public's lack of familiarity with her, rather than any kind of broad unpopularity. Half Baked Apology In an interview last Friday, Clinton offered a quasi-apology. I take responsibility, ” she said in an interview with ABC’s David Muir [on Tuesday].

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Also consider Mish Interview With "Bitcoin Jesus". By now it is well known that the proprietor of the ''Silk Road'' internet marketplace for drugs and other illicit products has been busted by the FBI. Somewhere between 10 million and 90 million acres, depending on how efficient the production is. Bitcoin Background.

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