Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

If you want a small group setting to accelerate your case interview performance (like, 0-60 in a day) join us next weekend in San Francisco – September 21 for our last 8-hour Consulting Bootcamp in the U.S. One great question that was asked (via index card from the audience): “Is there a right answer in a case interview?”

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

Excelling in the Interview. So, the rest of this post will focus on the two remaining areas: proper case practice, and things to remember during the interview. One of the good things about preparing for the case interview is that there is no shortage of resources to assist students in understanding the fundamentals.

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Harmonious Workplaces

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In 2001, Michael hired a no-name like me after an informational interview to become the Associate Marketing Director for GIA Publications. In a shop at the hotel in which she stayed, she found card decks published by The School of Life — a British organization committed to promoting fulfilling lives for people.

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Management Consulted

JUNE 17, 2015

The original site offered short-term living quarters, breakfast and a unique business networking opportunity for attendees who were unable to book a hotel in the saturated market. Interview Tips & Tricks. There is not one sure way that leads your application to being accepted for the interview process. What do you say?”

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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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Tom Spencer

MAY 13, 2018

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. Some mainly staff you in regional projects, others have global staffing models, offering you a broader choice of projects while also making you travel more. Stay flexible.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 12, 2015

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. For more information on consulting interviews, please download “ The HUB’s Guide to Consulting Interviews “ ]. [For

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

A quick subway ride later, and we were not only at the hotel – but Jenny Rae was asleep. I also shared a bit about how to present yourself as a woman in consulting networking and interviews. The driver seemed to have an intimate understanding of aggressive-but-safe speeds, and we finished the 2 hour trip well under the allotted time.

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Consulting Matters

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

How do you feel if your client gives you a free overnight to stay at one of their hotels to get a flavor of their customer service experience? Interview them. Do you see yourself enjoying walking the floor of a manufacturing plant, chatting with the production staff and engineers? And that's just differences between industries.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 29, 2018

It’s also worth noting that consulting travel isn’t really travel: on your usual Monday to Thursday run, you’ll see a lot of airports, taxis and hotels, a routine nowhere near as glamourous as people think.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 26, 2018

Over the course of a year I worked with Professor Elizabeth Morrison, Vice Dean of Faculty at NYU, to interview 10 women of color in order to understand the challenges they face in the workplace, how they cope with those challenges, and how those coping mechanisms affect their chances of long-term success. And then having to go to work.

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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.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 28, 2014

How could you possibly go into an interview not having done this bootcamp?” ” And to cap off our London adventure, we had an 8-hour open bootcamp at the Grosvenor House, a schmancy hotel overlooking Hyde Park. Time just flew, and yet it didn’t leave me exhausted.” ” Or what about this one?

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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. Well, for all its benefits, the life of a consultant is not necessarily a bed of roses.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

A quick subway ride later, and we were not only at the hotel – but Jenny Rae was asleep. I also shared a bit about how to present yourself as a woman in consulting networking and interviews. The driver seemed to have an intimate understanding of aggressive-but-safe speeds, and we finished the 2 hour trip well under the allotted time.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

A quick subway ride later, and we were not only at the hotel – but Jenny Rae was asleep. I also shared a bit about how to present yourself as a woman in consulting networking and interviews. The driver seemed to have an intimate understanding of aggressive-but-safe speeds, and we finished the 2 hour trip well under the allotted time.

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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.

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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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Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2017

” My interviews with people who have faced this challenge revealed some ways new parents can make this tough phase easier on themselves. Show up earlier to the airport than you’re used to, so you can pump before you take off, and reserve early check-ins at your hotels to facilitate pumping on arrival.

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Chad Barr

MARCH 12, 2014

Whether reading a book, watching an interview, or visiting the various social media platforms, it’s ubiquitous. For example, people like to shop where others “like” to shop, stay at hotels where others “like” to stay, and repost others’ quotes. We have created a “like” society.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 11, 2018

Today, Hyatt Place’s signature scent can be found in almost 300 hotels across the U.S. Consider this example: The core idea behind 1 Hotels is organic living, with respect for the natural resources and indigenous flora of each locale. Pilot the signature scent before exposing it to prospects and customers.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 16, 2020

This article identifies what lies ahead for graduates considering a future in consulting, and highlights key insights that I gained by interviewing junior and senior consultants. Brace yourself. It is well known that consulting comes with long hours, time pressure, busy periods, and high performance expectations.

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CaseInterview.com

APRIL 30, 2019

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. They all worked until 5pm, I stayed until 6:30pm and then went back to the hotel. You end up going to where the client is located.

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Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2018

Meanwhile, I interviewed over 40 professional speakers some of who have a more amp-it-up ritual, like doing power poses or rocking out to heavy metal bands. There are lots of ways to execute an exertion ritual, like doing a brief workout, dancing to hip hop music in your hotel room, or jumping up and down backstage.

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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. How can a business operate when the currency is on a free-fall?" How Can Businesses Operate in A currency Freefall?

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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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Women in Consulting

MARCH 25, 2014

Oh, and they will pick you up at the airport for free, take you on a tour of Zappos and then back to your hotel. When they needed to staff up a service center, he went about it in a whole new way: no JDs, no interviewing, no hiring managers. Takeaway: Becoming a big company allows you to give back to your community in a big way.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

We recently interviewed 100 entrepreneurs to find out which ventures are most likely to thrive. Consider that a contiguous plot of land among otherwise fragmented land ownership can house the only hotel or plantation in an area. Another reason is that investors are myopically infatuated with snazzy technology.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 7, 2017

But over the last two years, as we interviewed over 60 business leaders, what we found is that this feeling never goes away. No matter how senior the person we interviewed, there was always a lingering doubt about the risks and consequences of speaking up.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 4, 2011

AECOM provides economic analysis and strategic planning services, which generally fall into four areas of practice: Economic Planning and Real Estate, Entertainment and Leisure, Hotels and Resorts, and Capital Facilities Planning. Case Interviews. Website: www.arup.com. Address: Arup. Level 5 Festival Walk. 80 Tat Chee Avenue.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 26, 2017

The space makes use of a set-up known as “hoteling,” in which staffers aren’t assigned a designated work space. The hoteling system in the building is also a great help for new mothers in the firm as they can schedule a room for privacy when pumping or even breastfeeding. Cool, or not? In one way, you’re permanently homeless.

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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. Pamela Hinds.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 11, 2014

Its subject is pervasive global surveillance, an enveloping digital act that spreads without visibility, so its scenes unfold in courtrooms, hearing chambers and hotels. Citizenfour must have been a maddening documentary to film. The two-hour long documentary, Citizenfour, shows Mills living in Russia with Snowden.

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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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Management Consulted

JANUARY 25, 2015

How I Prepared for Consulting Interviews. The Bain Interview Process (as a then-outsider). We lived the American dream, stayed in hotels instead of with family, and ate out more than once a month. Why I Never Wanted to Be A Consultant. How I Fell in Love with Business. Starting My First Business – Pre-Consulting.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2016

As we move from one hotel chain to another and order the same Starbucks drink in London that we do in Shanghai or Tokyo, it can feel like just another business trip as opposed to a personally meaningful cross-cultural adventure. Too often, these whirlwind treks leave us numb. First, traveling abroad can build your confidence.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Interesting, the office in New York is very transient and has a hoteling system (so you don’t have an assigned desk) – so if you sign up for Deloitte NYC, be prepared to travel all the time.

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