Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

There are some firms that follow a home office staffing model whereby all the clients are relatively local to the home office, so the days with long hours can be done at home rather than at a hotel. Every firm has its core strengths (be it a functional area or industry) and areas that it is trying to grow. Areas of strength and growth.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Consultants can be placed under a lot of pressure, required to work extremely long hours, spend endless nights in lonely hotel rooms, and face the continual threat of redundancy either due to an economic downturn or the firm’s ‘up or out’ policy.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 13, 2018

Moreover, it is a convenient way to get to know different industries and business functions for those who are still unsure about which career path to follow in the long run. Other differences include the diversity of projects, the quality of flights and hotels, and the scope of support functions such as research and presentation design.

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants

JULY 22, 2013

So it is with "3-4-5", an important but opaque term of art in this industry. Put plainly, "3-4-5" means that, for each week youre working: Youll spend 3 nights at hotels. Were the good guys," theyll claim during your interview. Labels: Consultantese , Gotta Love the Client Site , Hotels , The joys of being a new consultant.

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Management Consulted

JUNE 5, 2016

If healthcare decision-making processes and drug development get you out of bed in the morning, or if you simply want to learn from someone who successfully navigated the consulting interview process just last year, be ready to pick up some great networking and interview tips for yourself. interview on Friday.

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CaseInterview.com

APRIL 30, 2019

The second factor is the industry you choose to work in or end up working in. At other firms, they often go to the client for meetings, to conduct interviews, gather data, etc. Sure, it was a very nice hotel, and it's really, really cool for the first four weeks. and that song is not about San Diego or Miami.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 12, 2015

If you are a practicing consultant then this might include sharing industry knowledge or making helpful introductions. Below is a short sample email to give you an idea of what is required: Dear Sally, This is Joe Simpson, we met yesterday at Bain’s careers evening held at the Randolph Hotel in Oxford. Best wishes, Joe.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 11, 2018

Since a typical project only runs for a few weeks or months, variety is also given – each problem is different from the previous one and especially the younger consultants are encouraged to work on a variety of tasks, ranging from client interviews and qualitative research to model building and financial analysis. Image: Pexels.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

When you first start consulting, it can seem like a sort of corporate utopia: interesting work, a new client every few months, access to leaders of industry, great colleagues, endless career development and training, generous dinner budgets, extensive travel, nice hotels, international travel.

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Consulting Travel Case Interview Hotels 74

Harvard Business

APRIL 11, 2018

Today, Hyatt Place’s signature scent can be found in almost 300 hotels across the U.S. While packaged goods, hospitality, retail, medicine, real estate, and fitness are some of the obvious industries for employing scent branding, many brands in other industries have benefited from this approach. Ad agency J.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 27, 2013

Bhatia, head of the enterprise business at television maker Videocon Industries, said in an August 21 interview. Indian shoppers are not only cutting back on big-ticket purchases such as refrigerators, TVs or expensive branded apparel but even staples including soaps, ketchup and cosmetics.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 26, 2017

Close to the Capitol, its office serves dynamic clients in a mix of industries including healthcare, aerospace, defense, and consumer products. The McKinsey Washington, DC office attracts people from all walks of life: business, law, medicine, industry, academia, and public service. Cool, or not? Lynn Street in Arlington.

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

Before I became general manager of The Beverly Hills Hotel, I held the same position at another luxury hotel up the coast. Later, he privately told me he was thinking of leaving the hotel. And something was wrong. Our fine dining restaurant was on the brink of losing its hard-won Michelin rating. This has to be done as a group.

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Operations Hotels Case Interview Finance 31

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

In the New York office, the industries McKinsey caters to are financial services, health care services, advanced electronics, aerospace and defense, and TMT (technology, media and telecommunications). Bainies in NYC work to support their clients on nearly every industry and across all ranges.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 11, 2019

As an experiment, I invited a few dozen CIBs, 1Y, 2Y to a last-minute, impromptu Q&A session in the lobby of my hotel. I was hoping 5 people would show up, but when close to 30 did, the hotel kicked us out. When I used to do informational interviews for networking purposes, I’d ask the same question. Lesson learned.).

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 31, 2017

Since their founding less than a decade ago, Uber and Airbnb have wrangled with regulators, challenged the taxi and hotel industries, earned extraordinary valuations from venture capital investors — and fundamentally transformed the way people think about urban transportation and travel. These companies had to do something.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 26, 2015

We will set up a test stretch on the A9 Autobahn" Dobrindt told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in an interview, adding that the first steps towards the "Digital Testing Ground Autobahn" project would be taken this year. The German car industry will also be able to be world leaders in digital cars". But who needs truck drivers?

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 10, 2016

The year promises the world’s first space hotel, NASA’s Juno spacecraft arriving at Jupiter, soccer’s Euro 2016 in France and the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the US Presidential Elections (aka circus) and much more. Welcome to the New Year Management Consulted Subscribers !

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Harvard Business

APRIL 7, 2017

A leader in the health industry recalled an incident from 40 years ago that still haunted him. But over the last two years, as we interviewed over 60 business leaders, what we found is that this feeling never goes away. In the early stages of his career he decided he had to speak up about malpractice he had witnessed.

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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2016

How many nights have you spent in a hotel in a city many miles from home? The research involved conducting and coding 88 in-depth behavioral event interviews of leading change with 65 leaders, spread across multiple industries and from across five continents. Another executive I interviewed reflected on this.

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

So with encouragement from the US government (we interviewed the then US Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson), the Chinese government unleashed a stimulus programme of mammoth scale: £400bn of direct government spending, and an instruction to the state-owned banks to "open their wallets" and lend as if there were no tomorrow. Hussman Foundation.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 7, 2014

Whatever runs on your smartphone would run on your eyewear," Willey said in an interview with CNET. "At Some of us in the industry who have done well are making an effort to give something back. The conference hotel is a fun place in and of itself. At full HD. Whether it''s a window or immersive." Hussman Foundation.

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1 to 1

MAY 7, 2013

Industry Events. Some people shared stories about highly personalized hotel experiences. Intuit also administers a panel of about 10,000 accountants and tax professionals who share their input through in-depth interviews and topical surveys. Industry Events. White Papers. 1to1 Case in Point. 1to1 Executive Dialogue.

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Confessions of a Consultant

MAY 28, 2017

The industrial relations consultant Dr. Liam Doherty (he’s great fun) argues that the only reason for going on radio is to keep someone else off air. The Internet video that went viral (the guy completing the Skype interview in Korea) shows the importance of having boundaries. The Topic: Working from home.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 18, 2018

Scores of recent stories have exposed the pervasiveness of sexual harassment in industries such as Hollywood , tech , politics , and academia. Less attention has been given to lower-paying jobs, such as those in the service and hospitality industry, where the problem runs rampant. restaurant industry.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 16, 2015

The interview was before the Fed announcement. It was a fascinating 2-hour interview. It might create, particularly in certain situations, scenarios where maybe a rental project is much better suited to be used as a semi-hotel in an Airbnb situation. This was a very refreshing interview. It's well worth a read.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 23, 2017

For a recently accepted article in Marketing Science , we interviewed five marketing executives from a variety of industries, all of whom expressed concern about marketing to consumers facing attention constraints. They further agreed that, in some situations, it makes sense to emphasize the same attribute as a competitor.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2017

A few days after Trump supposedly saved 750 jobs at Carrier, Hayes revealed in a CNBC interview with Jim Cramer that: “We’re going to make a $16 million investment in that factory in Indianapolis to automate to drive the cost down so that we can continue to be competitive… But what that ultimately means is there will be fewer jobs.

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