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Management Consulting versus Investment Banking

Management Consulted

I seriously considered sales & trading (in fact, I spent a summer at Credit Suisse First Boston in NY), and was tempted to continue in that line of work post-graduation. At the Big 3 (Bain, Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey), you can expect travel 50-75% of the time. Interested in sales & trading? 3 SKILL DEVELOPMENT.

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Consultant Ninja: Finally, two counter-cyclical markets: Management.

Consultant Ninja

Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. After seeing so many markets down, my cousin in the hunting business informed me that gun sales have been surging, due to Obama winning the presidency. bankruptcy Sept.

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PARADE Method

CaseInterview.com

A source of irritation for many interviewers is when the candidate says, " We faced a $10 million drop in sales, and we fixed this by landing three new clients for $3.3 Did you find and close all $10 million in sales? Did you just show up at the sales meeting? Did you cheer the sales team on from the sidelines?

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How to Pass the McKinsey Problem Solving Game

CaseInterview.com

In the case interview process for McKinsey, one of the early evaluations is “Solve,” McKinsey’s digital assessment game (formerly called the McKinsey Problem Solving Game). What Is McKinsey's Digital Assessment Game? From McKinsey’s problem solving game Solve, McKinsey evaluates what’s called a “process score.”

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The First Step to Fixing U.S. Manufacturing

Harvard Business

Even more striking, new research from the McKinsey Global Institute analyzes firm-level financial results and finds a stark contrast in performance between the biggest U.S. Past work by McKinsey found that inefficiencies in manufacturer-supplier interactions add up to roughly 5% of development, tooling, and product costs in the auto industry.

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List of strategy consulting firms in Hong Kong

Tom Spencer

McKinsey & Company. McKinsey & Company. Address: McKinsey & Company. Founded in Chicago in 1926 and operating in Hong Kong since 1985, McKinsey is the world’s most prestigious consulting firm and operates in 101 locations worldwide. Boston Consulting Group. Deloitte Consulting. Forum Corporation. IMS Health.

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The consulting case study: What you need to know

freshminds

The Ivy Case is a system created by a Harvard professor who coached students for interviews at top-tier consultancies such as McKinsey. Operational Cases: Operations Case, Increasing Sales, Reducing Costs, Improving the Bottom Line, Turnarounds.