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The consulting case study: What you need to know

freshminds

Why are Case Studies used? Note that they are not looking for a “right answer”; they are looking for a “right method” Types of case studies. Here are some examples of different approaches across industries; Management Consulting : tend to use “operational” type case studies (more details below).

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MC Coach Interview: My First Year at McKinsey

Management Consulted

Because of this, we sat down with consulting veteran Lisa Bright (who is now part of the MC interview coaching team!) The school I was at isn’t one of McKinsey’s core schools, so I had to do a lot of reading online to prepare for the interview, get accustomed to case interviews and stuff like that. That was rough.

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Student Consulting ? Does it deliver?

Tom Spencer

This may include discrete projects completed at arms length, such as due diligence on a transaction, or turnaround projects where consultants are embedded within an organisation. Not because the experience itself was a deal-breaker, but because people with student consulting experience rarely succeeded at interviews. Image: Pexels.

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We Interviewed 57 Female CEOs to Find Out How More Women Can Get to the Top

Harvard Business

We then conducted a series of in-depth individual interviews, delving into pivotal experiences in their personal history and career progression, and using Korn Ferry’s executive online assessment to measure key personality traits and drivers that had an impact. Women could be ready for the CEO role sooner. But what else did you do?

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Are You a Toxic Leader?

Peter Stark

There are so many ways corporate relationships can be disharmonious; In one study , 94 percent of the participants stated they had worked at one time or another with an individual who created a toxic work environment. One employee we were interviewing told us that working at his corporation was almost like a religious experience.

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How Organic Wine Finally Caught On

Harvard Business

Through historical research and many interviews, we found several ways in which early stumbles in the organic wine market created marketing problems that the industry still struggles to overcome. The Turnaround. Why the difference? ” Organic wine was not strongly embraced by distributors and retailers, either.

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Leading Across Cultures Requires Flexibility and Curiosity

Harvard Business

When I was heading Organization and Management Development at Pepsi International, I would encourage our international executives to study local comedy shows. 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.

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