838: Sanity Checking Estimations in Cases (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

838: Sanity Checking Estimations in Cases (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

Many candidates forget to sanity-check their calculations in a case. That is a bad idea. Without a sanity-check there is no way to meaningfully assess the accuracy of your answer. More important, how you perform the sanity check is the key. All sanity-checks must involve the reduction of the answer to a number that you can intuitively compare to your own experiences. Unless you do this, you can never defend your answer.

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239: Image Management as an Older Consultant

239: Image Management as an Older Consultant

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28 Tammi 201528min

238: What Happens When You Outgrow Mentors

238: What Happens When You Outgrow Mentors

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22 Tammi 201522min

237: Taking Leadership as an Associate

237: Taking Leadership as an Associate

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15 Tammi 201520min

236: What is a Good Consulting Mentee?

236: What is a Good Consulting Mentee?

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235: How Age Impacts Consultants and Applicants

235: How Age Impacts Consultants and Applicants

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3 Tammi 201527min

234: The Role of Your Significant Other

234: The Role of Your Significant Other

One oversight we have corrected as we have learned more about our clients, is to understand the role their significant others play in their lives and decisions. We tend to assume that the advice we pr...

28 Joulu 201430min

233: Racial Prejudices in Management Consulting

233: Racial Prejudices in Management Consulting

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