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. References De Botton, A.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Or, invite us to come present a 2-hour Bootcamp Lite (60 attendees minimum, lecture) or 8-hour Consulting Bootcamp (8-30 participants/day, interactive w/breakouts) – we would be honored to meet with you. A quick subway ride later, and we were not only at the hotel – but Jenny Rae was asleep.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Or, invite us to come present a 2-hour Bootcamp Lite (60 attendees minimum, lecture) or 8-hour Consulting Bootcamp (8-30 participants/day, interactive w/breakouts) – we would be honored to meet with you. A quick subway ride later, and we were not only at the hotel – but Jenny Rae was asleep.

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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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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. Given the corporate climate, she felt enormous pressure to attend the company’s annual sales meeting, which meant leaving her 14-week-old son at home. Ask, Advocate, and Organize.

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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

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. So we meet someone and label them as: woman or old or American or rich.

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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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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. Snowden, at a meeting with Greenwald in Moscow, expresses surprise at the level of information apparently coming from this new source. million files on "suspects".

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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? Perhaps nervous about the meeting in the morning, you find yourself lying on the bed flicking through the TV channels for something to watch to keep you awake to offset the growing jet-lag. “We started meeting in each other’s homes every few months.

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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

JANUARY 25, 2015

How I Prepared for Consulting Interviews. The Bain Interview Process (as a then-outsider). We’d moved from lower middle-class, just making ends meet, to solid middle class, to upper middle class. We lived the American dream, stayed in hotels instead of with family, and ate out more than once a month.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

By way of a quick words-only recap, we made our way back to Duke and got to train 30 eager sophomores and juniors preparing for their first interview season. It was a beautiful Sunday, and the only real excitement was the day before – we got evacuated onto the lobby level of our hotel with 80MPH+ winds and major tornado warnings.

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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. During this informal “shop talk,” a 1Y from McK asked me how to be more comfortable meeting strangers (e.g.,

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Jerry Fletcher

MARCH 13, 2021

I was fortunate enough to meet Tony Simons of Cornell University just as his book, The Integrity Dividend was being published. In it he describes how he conducted interviews with the staff at 76 different locations of a hotel chain. The bottom line. Tony had the staff rate managers on six different trust factors.

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants

JULY 22, 2013

Put plainly, "3-4-5" means that, for each week youre working: Youll spend 3 nights at hotels. Fill out expense reports and attend "team meetings" all day Friday. Were the good guys," theyll claim during your interview. Plus, "we have a staff meeting first thing Monday, and where were you Thursday at 4:30 when we needed you?"

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Tom Spencer

JULY 6, 2019

You’ll look back at your first meetings, notes, emails, and slides, and be horrified at how bad they are compared to now – and this is just after 6 months on the job. Anything you don’t get to see on the company dime, you can still probably see for free – just in exchange for a portion of your accumulated airline and hotel points.

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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 The conference hotel is a fun place in and of itself. In doing so, it''s inching closer to a product that may rival even Google in its wearable ambition. At full HD. Whether it''s a window or immersive." You will have an easy chance.

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1 to 1

MAY 7, 2013

Meet the Editors. 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. Meet the Editors. Marketing Research Articles. CRM Best Practices. Infographics.

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Confessions of a Consultant

MAY 28, 2017

The Internet video that went viral (the guy completing the Skype interview in Korea) shows the importance of having boundaries. Some companies now use a Hot Desk system where people don’t have individualized spaces but ‘plug and play’ from a free slot – in much the same way as we rent hotel rooms for a single night.

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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.

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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. Valiant will host a meeting with investors later today.

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