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Jim Fielding, Ex-Head of Disney Stores, on the Struggles of Making It as a Queer Executive

Harvard Business

According to Yahoo Finance, there are only four openly gay CEOs atop Fortune 500 companies. He was president of Disney Store Worldwide; president of consumer products and innovation at 20th Century Fox; global head for consumer products and retail development at Dreamworks Animation; and CEO of the Clare’s Stores chain.

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6 Ways You Can Prepare for Consulting Right Now

Management Consulted

Here are 6 ways to prepare for consulting as you wait for the next chance to drop that resume: 1) Go work for a brand name company, but do something that is sales, operations, or strategy related. 4) Get a job in finance, but not personal finance (financial advisory consulting or in an internal finance department of a company).

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PARADE Method

CaseInterview.com

The PARADE Method (tm) is an approach to answering resume-oriented job interview questions. It can be used by candidates to prepare concise and powerful answers to commonly asked consulting resume questions. Traditionally, the Christmas retail season kicks off on November 26th (the U.S. retail sales in only 30 days.

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GameStop, Robinhood, & Reddit

CaseInterview.com

GameStop is a business that sells video games via physical retail stores, typically located in shopping malls in the United States. Their reasoning was that nobody buys games in stores anymore (just like nobody buys music on CDs in retail stores or buys movies on Blu-ray Discs from retail stores). I agree with this assessment.

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Management Consulting in Canada

Tom Spencer

There are some local consulting firms such as SATOV Consultants, Level 5 Strategy, and Fusion Retail Analytics. If no consulting job is lined up after undergraduate studies, a master’s or MBA may be required to reinvent a resume.

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GameStop, Robinhood, & Reddit

CaseInterview.com

GameStop is a business that sells video games via physical retail stores, typically located in shopping malls in the United States. Their reasoning was that nobody buys games in stores anymore (just like nobody buys music on CDs in retail stores or buys movies on Blu-ray Discs from retail stores). I agree with this assessment.

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Job Hub: Square Jobs and Culture

Management Consulted

Alex Petrov, former VP of Retail Marketing at PayPal and VP of Consumer Brands at Safeway, joined the company as Vice President of Partnerships. 28% of Management Consultants Pursue Finance. After all, a team of ten built Square Cash, which allows person-to-person money transfers via email, the app and online. Prepare for interviews.

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