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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648: Structure fails at 60% McKinsey cases (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

648: Structure fails at 60% McKinsey cases (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

At least 90% of aspiring management consultants assume that all McKinsey et al cases MUST be solved with frameworks. That is a dangerous myth. At least 60% of all McKinsey full cases (we are not refer...

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647: If VCs & Gov. join forces we can solve society's biggest problems (with venture capitalist and lecturer at Stanford University, Arun Gupta)

647: If VCs & Gov. join forces we can solve society's biggest problems (with venture capitalist and lecturer at Stanford University, Arun Gupta)

Welcome to an interview with the author of Venture Meets Mission: Aligning People, Purpose, and Profit to Innovate and Transform Society, Arun Gupta. The book argues that if Business, Government, and ...

22 Jan 202454min

646: Courageous Leadership (with Best-selling author and Harvard Business School professor, Ranjay Gulati)

646: Courageous Leadership (with Best-selling author and Harvard Business School professor, Ranjay Gulati)

Welcome to an interview with the author of Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies, Ranjay Gulati. In his book, Ranjay reveals the fatal mistakes leaders unwittingly make when a...

17 Jan 202452min

645: Important case interview elements to consider (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

645: Important case interview elements to consider (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

For this episode, let's revisit a Case Interview & Management Consulting classic where we talk about important case interview elements to consider. Analyzing customers, competitors and the market: 3 a...

15 Jan 20249min

644: Brainstorming with definitions (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

644: Brainstorming with definitions (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

For this episode, let's revisit a Case Interview & Management Consulting classic where we talk about brainstorming with definitions. Brainstorming is very difficult and a crucial skill to have when so...

10 Jan 20245min

643: Giving interviewers benefit of the doubt (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

643: Giving interviewers benefit of the doubt (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

For this episode, let's revisit a Case Interview & Management Consulting classic where we talk about the importance of you, the candidate, never ever giving the interviewer the benefit of the doubt, w...

8 Jan 20248min

642: McKinsey Weak School (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

642: McKinsey Weak School (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

Entering BBM with a weak school on your resume can create problems. Though, all of them tend to be created by the candidates themselves. These consultants tend to have so many incorrect preconceived i...

3 Jan 20246min

641: Building Hypotheses From Data Exhibits (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

641: Building Hypotheses From Data Exhibits (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

Reading graphs is a perennial problem for many candidates. Yet, the problem is not the interpretation of the graphical data itself. Rather, it is knowing what to do with that data once you have interp...

1 Jan 202413min

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