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| consulting case interview frameworks: Case in Point Marc Cosentino, 2011 Marc Cosentino demystifies the consulting case interview. He takes you inside a typical interview by exploring the various types of case questions and he shares with you the acclaimed Ivy Case System which will give you the confidence to answer even the most sophisticated cases. The book includes over 40 strategy cases, a number of case starts exercises, several human capital cases, a section on marketing cases and 21 ways to cut costs. |
| consulting case interview frameworks: Case Interview Secrets Victor Cheng, 2012 Cheng, a former McKinsey management consultant, reveals his proven, insider'smethod for acing the case interview. |
| consulting case interview frameworks: Case Interview Frameworks Robert Steiner, 2015-08-30 You often hear in discussions about case interviews that you should not use standard business frameworks and concepts at all, because they just don’t fit to the specific case question and interviewers don’t like it when candidates use standard frameworks to solve cases. However, when challenging this shallow, generalized and popularized statements, there aren’t any of those arguments remaining on the table. It is most definitely true that you can't crack a realistic interview case by relying solely on standardized frameworks - but all those business frameworks and concepts are extremely helpful templates which you can and even should put into your toolbox and use them whenever appropriate (if not to the full extent, at least partly!). Such a standard business framework is just a tool - and the tool itself is rarely good or bad, it mainly depends on how and for which purpose you use it. With this book, you achieve all of the following: - Get a profound overview of the most important business concepts and frameworks needed in consulting case interviews. - Really understand those business concepts and frameworks, instead of possessing only knowledge of dangerous half-truths. - Impress your interviewer on how structured and therefore client-friendly you tackle tough case interview questions. - Quickly learn how to actually apply those frameworks to concrete business situations, instead of just having a shallow theoretic knowledge of them. - Be more MECE (mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive) in setting up your overall case structure at the beginning of your case interview. - Better structure your answers to particular questions later on in your case interview, again being more MECE. - Save tons of time by having high-quality content from 10+ years of consulting and interivew experience together in one single book. - Significantly reduce the risk of losing a tier-1 consulting firm job offer because you were not structured enough in your interview (and we all know how important it is to be ABS - Always Be Structured). |
| consulting case interview frameworks: Hacking the Case Interview Taylor Warfield, 2017 To land a management consulting job at any of the top firms, including McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Deloitte, L.E.K., Oliver Wyman and Accenture, you must get through several rounds of case interviews. Whether your interview is in a few weeks or even tomorrow, this book is written to get you the maximum amount of knowledge in the least amount of time. I cut out all of the filler material that some other consulting books have, and tell you everything that you need to know in a clear and direct way. With this shortcut guide, you will: Understand and become proficient at the nine different parts of a case interview, and know exactly what to say and do in each step Learn the only framework strategy that you need to memorize to craft unique and tailored frameworks for every possible case scenario Gain knowledge of basic business terms and principles so that you can develop an astute business intuition Acquire the skills to solve any market sizing or other quantitative problem Uncover how to differentiate yourself from the thousands of other candidates who are fighting to get the same job you are Practice your case interview skills with included practice cases and sample answers Also visit HackingTheCaseInterview.com for a one-week online crash course to pass your upcoming interview. |
| consulting case interview frameworks: An Introduction to Management Consultancy Marc Baaij, 2013-12-30 ‘I have never seen such a book about management consulting before: this sets a new standard. This book is extremely thorough and addresses all of the relevant topics.’ - Sander van ′t Noordende, Group Chief Executive Products Operating Group, Accenture Whether you are looking to build on your management studies or experience of working in business, you are likely to have come across management consultancy and will need a clear and concise introduction to this area to help you understand its practices and techniques in order to hire and implement management consultancy in the future. This text provides you with these essentials for success in your studies and later industries when working with and not just for consultancy firms. The text is built around learning objectives to empower your understanding of the ′what′, ′how′, ′when′ and ′why′ at macro and micro levels of management consultancy and its stakeholders, and provides you with engaging real life examples and extra web materials for study. As well as full courses on management consultancy, this text will be invaluable to your management knowledge and skill-set across strategy, change, analytics, problem-solving, solution implementation and decision-making as applied by the world′s top management consulting firms, such as McKinsey & Company, The Boston Consulting Group, and Bain & Company. Lecturer’s resources Lecturer’s guide Teaching notes per chapter Answer guidance to end-of-chapter questions in book Suggested discussion questions Suggested small group assignments Suggested small group field project Lecture slides Option 1: provide all figures of the book on PowerPoint slides Option 2: create complete PowerPoint presentations for each chapter Exercises Exam questions Discussion forum Student resources Templates for developing logical structures Web resources Consultancy publications Consultancy web site, career page Job application preparation services Consultancy institutions |
| consulting case interview frameworks: Vault Guide to the Case Interview Mark Asher, Eric Chung, Vault (Firm), 2002 Professional career guide from the Vault Career Library providing detailed case-by-case explanations of the consulting interview and strategies for cracking it. |
| consulting case interview frameworks: Consulting Frameworks Full Professor and Vice Dean Research in the Faculty of Law Peter Oliver, Peter Oliver, 2016-12-19 Consulting frameworks are what consultants use to frame a problem as well as its solution. Consulting is a specialty of problem solving, and these frameworks act as shortcuts to problem solving. It doesn't mean that they are exclusive to consulting! anyone can learn them to help improve their problem solving skills! For the ones interested in joining consulting, practicing 1000 cases doesn't help if you don't use a framework consistently. Therefore a better approach for preparation is to understand and memorize the frameworks followed by a few cases only to store the framework in your long-term memory. Many applicants practice cases for months and then are surprised that the cases during the interview are not similar. I don't need to belabor this point too much--you get it. Learn how to think with frameworks rather than brute force your way through an unhealthy amount of cases. If you want practice cases, most if not all consulting firms offer their own cases online and for free. Those are more than enough to practice. The Concise Reads Business Success series is a collection of short reading material that highlights important concepts in business education that every student, business owner, and entrepreneur should know from accounting and incorporating, to building a robust business plan and managing operations. We hope you enjoy Peter's easy to read explanations. The affordable pricing makes this series available to anyone willing to learn and the concise aspect makes it so it does not take more than a single day to learn or a single weekend to master. Good luck and please review the book when you're done so that others could see the value derived from this affordable series. Thank you for your interest and happy concise reading! |
| consulting case interview frameworks: Case Master Ron Clouse, Valentin Nugmanov, 2018-11-12 Case Master is a curated collection of thoughtful practice cases for consulting which will enable you to get a competitive edge for your upcoming case interviews. Case Master cases are all made to the highest standard and are custom-designed for optimal preparation and achieving mastery of all the core skills for case interviews: analysis, synthesis, calculation, estimation, and creativity. Maximizing the breadth and depth of your learning, Case Master is the only resource to offer concept-driven cases, challenging blindspots, guesstimateable axis variables, customizable case difficulty, and handy case kits for partner practice. Alone or with a practice partner, with Case Master you will scrutinize all fundamental case types (profit-and-loss, sales growth, market entry, investment, and counter-competition) and you will learn: 1 set of universal business categories applicable to any consulting case, 2 meanings of positioning and 3 meanings of push vs. pull, 4 types of economic inputs and outputs, 10 trending concepts to expand your problem-solving toolkit, 40 essential business metrics and terms, and much more at Case Master Club online. Whether you are a graduate student or an experienced professional seeking to break into strategy consulting, Case Master will be an investment into your professional future and will help you develop higher levels of both competence and confidence. Go beyond the resources that competing contenders already know and dare to become a Case Master. |
| consulting case interview frameworks: How to Get Into the Top Consulting Firms Tim Darling, 2009 |
| consulting case interview frameworks: The Case Interview Workbook: 60 Case Questions for Management Consulting with Solutions Robert Mellon, 2018-09-14 The Case Interview Workbook contains 60 case questions for management consulting interviews, with complete solutions. Every case is compiled and edited by a team of ex-consultants from McKinsey & Company, the Boston Consulting Group, and Bain & Company. This book fills the gap left by others by providing you with plenty of high-quality cases to practice on before your interview. Many cases are from actual interviews at the top-tier firms and cannot be found elsewhere. After working through this book, you will be prepared for every type of case question you may encounter: market sizing, estimation, operations, industry analysis, pricing, growth strategy, marketing, investment, M&A, market entry, customer segmentation, profitability, valuation, logic, issue identification, cost analysis, market expansion, and brainteasers, to name a few. These cases will help you prepare for interviews at leading management consulting firms, including McKinsey & Company, The Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company, Oliver Wyman, Strategy& (formerly Booz & Company), A.T. Kearney, Roland Berger, and L.E.K, as well as for consulting roles at large firms such as Accenture, Deloitte, PwC, EY, and KPMG. Note that is a workbook, designed to complement other preparation books. You will have a hard time solving these cases without learning first elsewhere how to do so, e.g. which frameworks to use, how to use them, and how to structure a solution. |
| consulting case interview frameworks: The Pyramid Principle Barbara Minto, 2021 This book reveals that the mind automatically sorts information into distinctive pyramidal groupings. However, if any group of ideas are arranged into a pyramid structure in the first place, not only will it save valuable time and effort to write, it will take even less effort to read and comprehend it |
| consulting case interview frameworks: Interview Math Lewis C. Lin, 2015-01-12 Interview Math provides over 50 practice problems and answers to help job seekers master quantitative interview questions including: Market Sizing Revenue Estimates Profitability Breakeven Pricing Customer Lifetime Value If you're interviewing at one of the highly sought after positions below, you'll need to master these interview math questions: Management Consulting: McKinsey, Bain, Boston Consulting Group, Deloitte General Management: Capital One, Taser Marketing: General Mills, Google, Hershey Software Engineering: Goldman Sachs, Microsoft Finance: American Airlines, Best Buy, JetBlue You'll learn interview math concept and principles - and then master those concepts with over 50 practice questions filled with detailed answers. After going through the book, candidates will feel knowledgeable, confident, relaxed and ready to tackle interview math questions. |
| consulting case interview frameworks: The Case Interview: 20 Days to Ace the Case Destin Whitehurst, Erin Robinson, 2016-02-11 Game-changing tips and tricks to nail the case interview and launch your consulting career. Management consultants Destin Whitehurst and Erin Robinson give you need-to-know techniques for polishing your poise and tightening your case interview skills. 20 Days to Ace the Case Interview preps you with the nuts and bolts of the case interview process with daily exercises, mock interviews, and industry know-how designed to help you ace your interview. Think of this book as your twenty-day intensive, management consulting boot camp, the perfect supplement to your arsenal of case interview lessons and material. With this guidebook, you will: Gain day-by-day structure: Daily case interview exercises progressively prep you Ask the right questions: Fundamental frameworks teach you exactly what to ask under pressure Learn from the pros: Review real-life stories from consulting experts Uncover unique strategies: Discover custom-developed case interview tips straight from the authors Go off script: Adapt what you’ve learned with our bonus case interview guides |
| consulting case interview frameworks: The Ultimate Case Interview Workbook Taylor Warfield, 2019-07-31 In The Ultimate Case Interview Workbook, you'll sharpen your case interview skills to dominate your upcoming interview and land your dream consulting job. Taylor Warfield, a former Bain management consultant and interviewer, provides essential practice problems and challenging cases to develop the skills needed to get multiple job offers. Use this workbook to access: 65+ problems tailored towards each type of question in case interviews Feel confident across a range of interview questions including framework questions, market sizing problems, profitability assessments, breakeven analysis, charts & graphs analysis, brainstorming questions, and other qualitative questions 15 full-length cases based on McKinsey, BCG, and Bain interviews Build business acumen across a variety of industries (e.g., technology, retail, healthcare, energy, finance, non-profit) and functions (e.g., strategy, operations) Efficient practice that can be done individually or with a partner Save yourself time by working through carefully crafted practice problems and cases that teach you a new concept, strategy, or takeaway each time Warfield's former students include undergraduates, MBAs, advanced degree holders, and experienced hires. They have landed job offers at top consulting firms, including McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Deloitte, L.E.K., Oliver Wyman, and Accenture as well as at Fortune 500 strategy groups. I felt really confident after my McKinsey interview - this book's cases prepared me perfectly! They were very similar to the ones I received in my first and final round interviews. -McKinsey Consultant, Wharton MBA Candidate I had very little time before my next BCG interview. This book provided me with plenty of practice that I could do by myself. After working through these cases, I felt excited going into my interviews. -BCG Associate, Experienced Hire These cases were much higher quality than those found in other case books. The explanations were detailed and thorough and I got to practice thinking like a true consultant. -Bain Consultant, Stanford Undergraduate Also visit HackingTheCaseInterview.com for a one-week online crash course to pass your upcoming interview. |
| consulting case interview frameworks: Case in Point 10 Marc Cosentino, 2018-05-16 Featuring the Ivy Case System - including a section on government and nonprofit cases. |
| consulting case interview frameworks: Cracking Case Interviews Jonathon Yarde, Max Serrano, 2020-10-08 Top consulting firms like McKinsey, BCG, and Bain only hire about 1% of their job applicants. Becoming a management consultant is difficult, but it is possible if you use a proven approach at each stage of the process.Cracking Case Interviews is a comprehensive one-stop shop for landing a job in consulting. This book will help you: Write the perfect consulting resume and cover letter that gets multiple interview invitations from top consultancies Learn the 7 different parts of a case interview and exactly what you need to do in each step Master maths tips and tricks to solve market sizing and other case interview questions quickly and accurately Discover the most commonly used frameworks in consulting and how you can use them for inspiration, without over-relying on them Practice with 5 full-length sample cases that are based on McKinsey, BCG, and Bain case interviews Prepare answers to behavioural interview questions, like Why consulting?, Why McKinsey?, or Tell me about a time you led a team. Max Serrano and Jonathon Yarde are former consultants and instructors at IGotAnOffer, the #1 website for case interview preparation, which has helped place over 2,000 applicants in consulting careers since 2015. This book translates the countless hours the authors have spent coaching undergraduates, MBAs, PhDs, MDs, JDs, and experienced hires on their consulting applications. |
| consulting case interview frameworks: Mastering the Case Analysis Alexander Chernev, 2006 Written by one of the top professors at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, Mastering the Case Analysis offers a systematic approach to analyzing business cases typically given in MBA job interviews. An overdue and much-needed aid to support students' preparation for case interviews, this book introduces an integrative framework for analyzing business problems and offers a detailed overview of the essential methods and concepts used in case analysis. |
| consulting case interview frameworks: The Consulting Interview Bible Jenny Rae Le Roux, Kevin Gao, 2014 |
| consulting case interview frameworks: Case in Point Marc Cosentino, Mukund Jain, 2016 The use of complex graphs in case interviews has exploded. Interviewees have a very short time to look at the graph, analyze it, extract what is important and apply it to their answer. This book was designed to help understand the role of graphs in consulting (both during an interview and on the job). The authors introduce the Ivy Graph Framework to assist the analysis of graphs during interviews. In addition the book provides ten sophisticated cases with numerous graphs per case. |
| consulting case interview frameworks: Vault Case Interview Practice Guide Rishi Marwah, Sridhar Parameshwaran, Robert Vujovich, Vault (Firm), 2008 In this competitive job market, you need all the preparation you can get. And the case interview - a tough business analysis - is the biggest hurdle prospective consultants and other strategists face. Make sure you're properly prepared to ace your case interviews with the Vault Case Interview Practice Guide 2: More Case Interviews. This brand-new Vault guide brings you 27 new case interview questions, providing detailed step-by-step analysis of each case. Study this guide and triumph over your case interviews. |
| consulting case interview frameworks: Case in Point: Government and Nonprofit: Case Interview and Strategic Preparation for Consulting Interviews in the Public Sector Marc Cosentino, Evan Piekara, 2019-02-03 Case interviews come in all formats. The key, as an interviewee, is being prepared. Know what the interviewer is looking for, know the industry/sector, the jargon, the constraints and stakeholders, and how people in the industry operate. Government and nonprofit cases span a wide variety of problems, issues, stakeholders, and politics, which makes them trickier than private sector case interviews. |
| consulting case interview frameworks: Ace Your Case V WetFeet.com (Firm), WetFeet (Firm), 2004 Consulting recruiters use the case interview as a primary means of evaluating interviewees. The fifth book in WetFeets popular Ace Your Case series provides 15 more case questions to help consulting hopefuls sharpen their case-cracking skills. |
| consulting case interview frameworks: Crack the Case David Ohrvall, 2003-09 |
| consulting case interview frameworks: Crack the Case System David Ohrvall, 2011 Crack the Case System is a complete training program, covering every aspect of the infamous case interview favored by top management consulting firms and a growing number of Fortune 500 companies. David Ohrvall's step-by-step approach combines practical instruction on structuring, analytics and communication, as well as insider tips and insights gained from training thousands of candidates. CTCS includes over 150 bonus videos on mbacase.com, 42 practice cases, homework and drills. About the author: David Ohrvall is the global expert on the topic of case interviews. A dynamic and sought-after speaker, he trains several thousand MBAs and undergraduates each year at premiere business schools around the world, including Wharton, Stanford, Harvard Business School, Chicago Booth, Duke's Fuqua School of Business, INSEAD, Oxford and Cambridge. David also has an extensive private coaching practice that has helped launch hundreds of candidates into consulting, venture capital, and a variety of industries. David is a former management consultant (Bain & Company), and a graduate of the Wharton School (MBA & undergrad). Learn more about David at www.mbacase.com. |
| consulting case interview frameworks: Cracking the PM Interview Gayle Laakmann McDowell, Jackie Bavaro, 2013 How many pizzas are delivered in Manhattan? How do you design an alarm clock for the blind? What is your favorite piece of software and why? How would you launch a video rental service in India? This book will teach you how to answer these questions and more. Cracking the PM Interview is a comprehensive book about landing a product management role in a startup or bigger tech company. Learn how the ambiguously-named PM (product manager / program manager) role varies across companies, what experience you need, how to make your existing experience translate, what a great PM resume and cover letter look like, and finally, how to master the interview: estimation questions, behavioral questions, case questions, product questions, technical questions, and the super important pitch. |
| consulting case interview frameworks: The Consulting Bible Alan Weiss, 2011-04-05 Everything you need to know about building a successful, world-class consulting practice Whether you are a veteran consultant or new to the industry, an entrepreneur or the principal of a small firm, The Consulting Bible tells you absolutely everything you need to know to create and expand a seven-figure independent or boutique consulting practice. Expert author Alan Weiss, who coaches consultants globally and has written more books on solo consulting than anyone in history, shares his expertise comprehensively. Learn and appreciate the origins and evolution of the consulting profession Launch your practice or firm and propel it to top performance Implement your consulting strategies in public and private organizations, large or small, global or domestic Select from the widest variety of consulting methodologies Achieve lasting success in your professional career and personal goals The author is recognized as one of the most highly regarded independent consultants in America by the New York Post and a worldwide expert in executive education by Success Magazine Whether you're just starting out or looking for the latest trends in modern practice, The Consulting Bible gives you an unparalleled toolset to build a thriving consultancy. |
| consulting case interview frameworks: The Harvard College Guide to Consulting Marc Cosentino, 1993 |
| consulting case interview frameworks: Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick Chris Bradley, Martin Hirt, Sven Smit, 2018-02-06 Beat the odds with a bold strategy from McKinsey & Company Every once in a while, a genuinely fresh approach to business strategy appears —legendary business professor Richard Rumelt, UCLA McKinsey & Company's newest, most definitive, and most irreverent book on strategy—which thousands of executives are already using—is a must-read for all C-suite executives looking to create winning corporate strategies. Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick is spearheading an empirical revolution in the field of strategy. Based on an extensive analysis of the key factors that drove the long-term performance of thousands of global companies, the book offers a ground-breaking formula that enables you to objectively assess your strategy's real odds of future success. This book is fundamental. The principles laid out here, with compelling data, are a great way around the social pitfalls in strategy development. —Frans Van Houten, CEO, Royal Philips N.V. The authors have discovered that over a 10-year period, just 1 in 12 companies manage to jump from the middle tier of corporate performance—where 60% of companies reside, making very little economic profit—to the top quintile where 90% of global economic profit is made. This movement does not happen by magic—it depends on your company's current position, the trends it faces, and the big moves you make to give it the strongest chance of vaulting over the competition. This is not another strategy framework. Rather, Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick shows, through empirical analysis and the experiences of dozens of companies that have successfully made multiple big moves, that to dramatically improve performance, you have to overcome incrementalism and corporate inertia. A different kind of book—I couldn't put it down. Inspiring new insights on the facts of what it takes to move a company's performance, combined with practical advice on how to deal with real-life dynamics in management teams. —Jane Fraser, CEO, Citigroup Latin America |
| consulting case interview frameworks: Start with Why Simon Sinek, 2011-12-27 The inspirational bestseller that ignited a movement and asked us to find our WHY Discover the book that is captivating millions on TikTok and that served as the basis for one of the most popular TED Talks of all time—with more than 56 million views and counting. Over a decade ago, Simon Sinek started a movement that inspired millions to demand purpose at work, to ask what was the WHY of their organization. Since then, millions have been touched by the power of his ideas, and these ideas remain as relevant and timely as ever. START WITH WHY asks (and answers) the questions: why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty from customers and employees alike? Even among the successful, why are so few able to repeat their success over and over? People like Martin Luther King Jr., Steve Jobs, and the Wright Brothers had little in common, but they all started with WHY. They realized that people won't truly buy into a product, service, movement, or idea until they understand the WHY behind it. START WITH WHY shows that the leaders who have had the greatest influence in the world all think, act and communicate the same way—and it's the opposite of what everyone else does. Sinek calls this powerful idea The Golden Circle, and it provides a framework upon which organizations can be built, movements can be led, and people can be inspired. And it all starts with WHY. |
| consulting case interview frameworks: The Consulting Apprenticeship Steve Shu, 2015-07-16 The Consulting Apprenticeship is written for business professionals and consultants with a focus on nuances passed on during apprenticeship regarding consulting delivery. Business professionals can benefit with a jump-start approach to applying consulting principles to their business. Designed for the busy professional, The Consulting Apprenticeship is a book of forty, quick-read ideas. These forty, short chapters are divided into four sections: Consulting Mindset - This section covers consulting ways of thinking and can be adopted by both company personnel and consultants. Consulting Techniques - This section covers specific tactics and toolkit methods when using consultative approaches in the trenches as either a company- or consulting firm-practitioner. Consulting Mastery - This section covers advanced perspectives on consulting and may be more useful to either company personnel evaluating consultants or mid- to senior-level consultants. Consulting Special Situations - Whereas the prior sections are applicable to a wide variety of situations, this section covers more infrequent, specific business situations involving consultative approaches in the trenches as either a company- or consulting firm-practitioner. Each chapter of the book concludes with an optional, takeaway exercise. The exercises vary widely in terms of level of involvement. For example, in some cases you can refer to online material. In other cases, you can engage in deeper thinking or apply the concepts over an extended period of time. However you choose to use this book, consulting mastery is a lifelong pursuit. I hope this book helps you with your journey. Stephen Shu Praise for The Consulting Apprenticeship When one of the companies I worked for needed help taking its consulting organization to the next level, I hired Steve Shu. His ability to drive our management team - all with different opinions on what we should or should not do - to a 'so-what' conclusion and pragmatic next steps gave us the jump start we needed. He is one of the best and deeply understands how consulting organizations should work. His book provides great techniques as well as tools you can use immediately. - Prakash Panjwani, CEO at WatchGuard Technologies, former President and CEO of SafeNet Steve Shu has put together a comprehensive guide to the all-important nuts and bolts of being a great consultant. The information in Chapter 21, 'Eight Secret Weapons of the Modern Consultant, ' is worth the price of the book. If you're serious about being a more effective consultant, read this book. - Michael McLaughlin, Author of Winning the Professional Services Sale and Principal Consultant at MindShare Consulting LLC; former Partner at Deloitte Steve Shu has written a hands-on, highly practical guide for new management consultants and internal corporate business strategists alike. So many projects fail because they do not practice the basic consulting project management hygiene Steve describes in chapter 11. If you are new to the trade and want to greatly increase your chance of delivering successful consulting projects, read this book. - Robert Reppa, Vice President Strategy at Johnson Controls and former Partner at Booz & Company Steve Shu has written a Rosetta Stone for both new and experienced consultants. Filled with forty power-packed ideas and practical chapter takeaways, Consulting Apprenticeship is structured for busy executives to easily digest each concept. A must read for those who seek to go beyond the shallow bromides of the consulting profession, and hone their skills with deeper, more meaningful approaches. - Adrian C. Ott, Award-winning author of The 24-Hour Customer, and CEO, Exponential Edge Inc, called One of Silicon Valley's most respected strategists by Consulting Magazine |
| consulting case interview frameworks: Case Interview Questions for Tech Companies Lewis Lin, 2016-10-04 Case Interview Questions for Tech Companies provides 155 practice questions and answers to conquer case interviews for the following tech roles: Marketing Operations Finance Strategy Analytics Business Development Supplier or Vendor Management ...and Product Management -- QUESTIONS COVERED IN THE BOOK Here are some of the questions covered in the book: Marketing Create a marketing campaign for Microsoft Office 365. Write a media statement to respond to Uber mischaracterizations voiced in a taxi leader's newspaper op-ed. Operations Describe how Apple's supply chain works. What challenges does Apple face on a day-to-day basis? What's the bottleneck for an Amazon Robot Picker? And what is the capacity of the assembly line, in units per hour? During the holiday season, Amazon customers shipped 200 orders per second. Amazon's data science team discovered that the average number of orders waiting to be shipped was 20,650. How long did the average Amazon order wait to be shipped? Finance What should Apple consider before implementing a shop-in-shop store inside Best Buy? If you projected a $500M expense and the variance came in at $1M, what are some of the explanations for why that is happening? Be prepared to give more than three scenarios. Business Development A car dealer partner wants to stop doing business with Uber. What should you do? How would you identify university faculty to source content for an online university? Strategy If you could open a Google store anywhere, where would it be and why? Give your analysis of several recent acquisitions that Google has made. Analytics What top metrics would you track for the Tinder online dating app? If 1,000 people opened the Uber app during one hour, how many cars do you need? Product Management Let's say we wanted to implement an Amazon Mayday-like feature in Gmail. How would that work? How would you any Microsoft product to a restaurant? AUTHOR BIO Lewis C. Lin, former Google and Microsoft executive, has trained thousands of candidates to get ready for tech interviews, using his proven interview techniques. Lewis' students have received offers from the most coveted firms including Google, Facebook, Uber, Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Dell and HP. Lewis has a bachelor's in computer science from Stanford University and an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. He's the author of several bestsellers including Interview Math, Rise Above the Noise as well as Decode and Conquer. HERE'S WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT THE AUTHOR Got the Amazon offer, with an initial package that was $100K more than what I currently make at [a top 5 tech company]. It's a dream job for the role of Principal Product Manager for a [special project]. - Q.K. Just signed the offer for a Google product marketing manager role. Your tips helped me relax and concentrate, so the time went by quickly even though it was really a tough interview. - D.E. I had my in-person interviews down at Facebook last week and got my offer letter the next day! You were definitely a huge help in preparing for the interviews. - L.S. |
| consulting case interview frameworks: Estimation with Applications to Tracking and Navigation Yaakov Bar-Shalom, X. Rong Li, Thiagalingam Kirubarajan, 2004-04-05 Expert coverage of the design and implementation of state estimation algorithms for tracking and navigation Estimation with Applications to Tracking and Navigation treats the estimation of various quantities from inherently inaccurate remote observations. It explains state estimator design using a balanced combination of linear systems, probability, and statistics. The authors provide a review of the necessary background mathematical techniques and offer an overview of the basic concepts in estimation. They then provide detailed treatments of all the major issues in estimation with a focus on applying these techniques to real systems. Other features include: * Problems that apply theoretical material to real-world applications * In-depth coverage of the Interacting Multiple Model (IMM) estimator * Companion DynaEst(TM) software for MATLAB(TM) implementation of Kalman filters and IMM estimators * Design guidelines for tracking filters Suitable for graduate engineering students and engineers working in remote sensors and tracking, Estimation with Applications to Tracking and Navigation provides expert coverage of this important area. |
| consulting case interview frameworks: The McKinsey Way Ethan M. Rasiel, 1999-02-22 If more business books were as useful, concise, and just plain fun to read as THE MCKINSEY WAY, the business world would be a better place. --Julie Bick, best-selling author of ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW IN BUSINESS I LEARNED AT MICROSOFT. Enlivened by witty anecdotes, THE MCKINSEY WAY contains valuable lessons on widely diverse topics such as marketing, interviewing, team-building, and brainstorming. --Paul H. Zipkin, Vice-Dean, The Fuqua School of Business It's been called a breeding ground for gurus. McKinsey & Company is the gold-standard consulting firm whose alumni include titans such as In Search of Excellence author Tom Peters, Harvey Golub of American Express, and Japan's Kenichi Ohmae. When Fortune 100 corporations are stymied, it's the McKinsey-ites whom they call for help. In THE MCKINSEY WAY, former McKinsey associate Ethan Rasiel lifts the veil to show you how the secretive McKinsey works its magic, and helps you emulate the firm's well-honed practices in problem solving, communication, and management. He shows you how McKinsey-ites think about business problems and how they work at solving them, explaining the way McKinsey approaches every aspect of a task: How McKinsey recruits and molds its elite consultants; How to sell without selling; How to use facts, not fear them; Techniques to jump-start research and make brainstorming more productive; How to build and keep a team at the top its game; Powerful presentation methods, including the famous waterfall chart, rarely seen outside McKinsey; How to get ultimate buy-in to your findings; Survival tips for working in high-pressure organizations. Both a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most admired and secretive companies in the business world and a toolkit of problem-solving techniques without peer, THE MCKINSEY WAY is fascinating reading that empowers every business decision maker to become a better strategic player in any organization. |
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| consulting case interview frameworks: The Marketing Interview Lewis Lin, 2018-05-10 In The Marketing Interview, Lewis C. Lin gives an industry insider's perspective on how to answer the most common and difficult marketing interview questions. The book will reveal: Answers to marketing interview questions Frameworks on how to tackle marketing case questions Biggest mistakes marketing candidates make at the interview Understand what interviewers are looking for, why they're looking for it, and how to deliver it This book is ideal for anyone who is interviewing any marketing role, including the most coveted roles in CPG, Tech, and Financial Services: CPG: P&G, Clorox, Kraft, Heinz, Nestle, Pepsi, Colgate, S.C. Johnson, Unilever, Reckitt Benckiser, Hershey Foods, Campbell Soup Company Tech: Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Uber, Dell, HP, IBM, Cisco, Paypal, Yelp, Airbnb, Pinterest Financial Services: American Express, Visa, Citi, HSBC, UBS, Barclays, Santander, Standard Chartered, And more... Questions and answers covered in the book include: What promotional strategies would you use for a Honey Nut Cheerios campaign? Develop a social good campaign for Teavana. Should Hidden Valley increase the price of its ranch dressing? Kit Kat sales declined year-over-year. Why is that, and what would you do to address it? Tell me about a terrible product that's marketed well. And more... This new second edition includes chapters on digital marketing including: A/B Testing Landing Page Testing Lead Scoring And more... |
| consulting case interview frameworks: Rise Above the Noise Lewis C. Lin, 2014-02 In Rise Above the Noise, the author gives an industry insider's perspective on how to answer the most common and difficult marketing interview questions. The book will reveal: Answers to marketing interview questions Frameworks on how to tackle marketing case questions Biggest mistakes marketing candidates make at the interview Understand what interviewers are looking for, why they're looking for it, and how to deliver it Questions and answers covered in the book include: What promotional strategies would you use for a Honey Nut Cheerios campaign? Develop a social good campaign for Teavana. Should Hidden Valley increase the price of its ranch dressing? Kit Kat sales declined year-over-year. Why is that, and what would you do to address it? Tell me about a terrible product that's marketed well. And more... |
| consulting case interview frameworks: The Boston Consulting Group on Strategy Carl W. Stern, Michael S. Deimler, 2012-06-14 A collection of the best thinking from one of the most innovative management consulting firms in the world For more than forty years, The Boston Consulting Group has been shaping strategic thinking in business. The Boston Consulting Group on Strategy offers a broad and up-to-date selection of the firm's best ideas on strategy with fresh ideas, insights, and practical lessons for managers, executives, and entrepreneurs in every industry. Here's a sampling of the provocative thinking you'll find inside: You have to be the scientist of your own life and be astonished four times:at what is, what always has been, what once was, and what could be. The majority of products in most companies are cash traps . . . .[They] are not only worthless, but a perpetual drain on corporate resources. Use more debt than your competition or get out of the business. When information flows freely, reputation, more than reciprocity,becomes the basis for trust. As a strategic weapon, time is the equivalent of money, productivity,quality, even innovation. When brands become business systems, brand management becomes far too important to leave to the marketing department. The winning organization of the future will look more like a collection ofjazz ensembles than a symphony orchestra. Most of our organizations today derive from a model whose original purpose was to control creativity. Rather than being an obstacle, uncertainty is the very engine of transformation in a business, a continuous source of new opportunities. IP assets lack clear property lines. Every bit of intellectual property you can own comes with connections to other valuable innovations. |
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| consulting case interview frameworks: The Last Lion Box Set Paul Reid, William Manchester, 2012-11-20 Universally acclaimed for their compelling narrative, their fresh insights, and their objective renderings of Winston Churchill's life, The Last Lion trilogy presents a revelatory and unparalleled portrait of this brilliant, flawed, and dynamic adventurer, aristocrat, soldier, and statesman. Born at the end of the 19th century when Imperial Britain still stood at the splendid pinnacle of her power, Churchill would witness the shift a few years later as the Empire hovered on the brink of a catastrophic new era. One of the greatest wartime leaders of our time, he would go on to stand alone, politically isolated in Parliament, as he took the lead in warning of the growing Nazi threat, and would lead Britain to victory against Nazi Germany and the Axis powers in World War II. Now, celebrated historian William Manchester's landmark biographies are collected together for the first time, along with the eagerly anticipated final installment Churchill's last years in power. More than thirty years in the making, The Last Lion is the definitive work on this remarkable man whose courageous vision guided the destiny of a nation during darkly troubled times-and who looms as one of the greatest figures of our century. |
| consulting case interview frameworks: Seeing the Big Picture Kevin Cope, 2012 Advocates that employees should focus their attention on what the author defines as the key drivers of cash, profit, assets, growth, and people to evaluate the viability of their organization and their prospects for advancement. |
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