72: Consulting Lifestyle Challenges
This podcast unpacks the typical lifestyle of a consultant. It touches on some elements for associates and business analysts, though delves more on the issues and challenges addressed by partners at B...
17 Maj 201219min
71: Advice for Aspiring Female Consultants
It is a ridiculous myth to assume the world is fair and females have an even playing field with males. Females, especially in emerging markets, face unique and trying obstacles during the case intervi...
11 Maj 201227min
70: Managing your Case Interview Image
Image management is crucial. A significant part of our approach is around teaching clients to manage, control really, the image they portray. This involves a wide area like dressing, networking, email...
5 Maj 201220min
69: Important Case Guidance
In our ongoing series of podcasts, we again introduce new advice about case interviews or sometimes view an old topic in a different manner. The objective of these podcasts is to explain concepts like...
29 Apr 201211min
68: Analyst to Partner
In this podcast I examine my rapid progression up the ranks of the elite firms all the way from analyst to principal and then director. I offer anecdotes or my own experience and especially the mistak...
23 Apr 20121h 9min
67: What is business judgement
You cannot and will not improve your case skills from practicing case alone. "Case skills" refers to a variety of skills including body language, communication and especially business judgement. Busin...
17 Apr 201210min
66: Follow an R&D Strategy Study
An earlier podcast discussed a fairly labor-intensive case where we needed to literally roll-up our sleeves to find and extract data, and a corporate finance study. This engagement is somewhere in-bet...
11 Apr 201234min
65: Discuss your analytic skills, sample answer
In this series of podcasts we look at each of the typical McKinsey/BCG FIT/PEI questions and provide a typical answer. Note, that while replicating this approach and standard will help you, we caution...
5 Apr 20129min
