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One theme I continually emphasize throughout this blog is the need to form connections. Be less of a case solving robot and more of a person who is awesome at cases. This is done through forming connections, and one way to do this is to turn the interview into an interaction instead of an interview. […]
January 24, 2011
Once you have determined your approach (see Tip #1: Structure, you need to decide where to go. Your approach is like a road map – it’s a plan on how to get there, but you still need to drive. Let’s take the classic profit tree to illustrate how to hypothesize. When starting out, you can […]
January 24, 2011
Introduction In all the case interviews I have given, the number one issue students had was a lack of structure. “Structure”, in this case, means laying out a plan of how you’re going to approach the question. It answers: 1) Which areas is the candidate going to look at? Does the student cover all of […]
January 23, 2011
Acumen is defined as “The ability to make good judgments and quick decisions”. In a case interview, you will be asked to make dozens of small judgments and decisions; how can you ensure you have good business acumen and make those good judgments? For example, suppose you were asked to help a client who was […]
December 23, 2010
As I have said multiple times throughout this blog, most people who get consulting offers work very hard to earn it. They typically familiarize themselves with the firms and cases before recruitment, and sometimes start months (or even years) before full-time recruitment. But what if you don’t have months? What if you just found out […]
November 5, 2010
While there are arguably as many potential strategies to grow a company as there are companies, in my experience they all boil down to two ideas: products & customers. By combining the two in various ways, you can start to generate a multitude of growth strategies: New products, existing customers – This allows you to […]
November 5, 2010
You may have heard one, or all three, of these terms thrown around. But what exactly do people mean by them, and what are the key differences? An acquisition is one when company (buyer) purchases another company (target). In this instance, the target ceases to exist and its assets / liabilities are simply added to […]
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