113: Four Classic Math Mistakes In Cases
Candidates mess up calculations for 4 primary reasons: missing units, complicated equations, weak visual layout and poor technique. Notice that we ignore speed and arithmetic. There is a reason for that and it is discussed in the podcast. The most surprising one of the lot is missing units. We have trained PhDs who graduated first in their schools and many tend to drop units thereby producing meaningless answers. These are all simple mistakes but the impact is substantial.

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

797: 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...

14 Juli 202513min

796: You Cannot Join McKinsey Strategy (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

796: You Cannot Join McKinsey Strategy (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

Far too many candidates demonstrate poor knowledge of consulting by insisting that they want to work for McKinsey strategy and not operations or BTO. This is a flawed strategy which will only hurt the...

9 Juli 202510min

795: Ignoring partners in an interview (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

795: Ignoring partners in an interview (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

You have been brainwashed by every single forum and case book to assume that McKinsey wants a framework and set of hypotheses, that you have stopped listening as carefully to the interviewer and simpl...

7 Juli 20259min

794: Evaluating your firm's training (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

794: Evaluating your firm's training (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

For this episode, let's revisit a Case Interview & Management Consulting classic where we discuss consulting firm's training.   Too often clients ask the wrong questions when it comes to assessing tra...

2 Juli 202513min

793: Economic impact of poor business judgement (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

793: Economic impact of poor business judgement (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

For this episode, let's revisit a Case Interview & Management Consulting classic where we discuss the economic impact of poor business judgement. The economic impact of poor business judgement, is a...

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792: Psychologist and New York Times Best-Selling Author on the Discipline of Letting Go

792: Psychologist and New York Times Best-Selling Author on the Discipline of Letting Go

In this reflective conversation, psychologist and author Dr. Bob Rosen examines the unspoken attachments that often shape executive behavior, frequently without conscious awareness. His framework, dra...

25 Juni 202525min

791: Generating multiple creative hypotheses (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

791: Generating multiple creative hypotheses (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

For this episode, let's revisit a Case Interview & Management Consulting classic, building of our technique to develop hypotheses, this podcast explains a clever way to generate creative hypotheses. I...

23 Juni 20257min

790: McKinsey senior partner networking success (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

790: McKinsey senior partner networking success (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

For this episode, let's revisit a Case Interview & Management Consulting classic where we share a networking success story with a McKinsey senior partner.   We always ask our clients, especially those...

18 Juni 202510min

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