Case Interview — Introduction

As a consultant, you will be using language in almost every part of your job... but how do consultants actually speak?
In this video, Filipe shares 7 expressions that you can learn in order to speak, and ultimately think, more like a consultant.

To most outsiders, management consulting can seem like a Pandora’s box of stereotypes. Consulting firms shroud themselves in secrecy, allowing those stereotypes to thrive.

McKinsey is a company like no other - their elections are no exception. Fall 2017 saw another election process coming to a head, and in this video, we take a look at how this happens. 

When you start working on a new case, you can approach it from a multitude of angles. Before defining your angle, you must define where where you stand.

Defining your case is the first crucial step you must take. When you get the case, you need to work out what the case actually is or risk working yourself into a corner later on.

Get to grips with one of the most common mistakes in the case interview. Find out how to use initial hypothesis at the right time in your case interview at the top consulting firms.

Be it in a working case or the case interview, the consulting business will pose a plethora of problems. In this video, we look at how you can easily put any problem into one of four categories. This allows you to deal with each problem on its own terms and in the most efficient way.

No two problems are the same - they come in all shapes and sizes. Faced with diverse problems, consultants must know how to diversify their ways of solving them as well.

As a prospective consultant, you will probably have heard the word "MECE". It is often used to control for shortcomings in a given case. In this lecture, we explore this crucial consulting term. 

A vital way of structuring your case is by using open questions. A series of open questions will form the basis of your issue tree and help you prioritise which issues you should focus on. Watch an example with a case from your personal life and learn how the right questions can put your case on the right track.

To any analysis you do the retort will usually be "So what?". The best consultants are never asked this question, because they make the importance of their analysis evident from the beginning.

In problem solving, you must master two ways of operating: The convergent and the divergent thinking.
In this video, we look at what each of those entails and how to use them as a consultant.

When giving your client the overview of a case, every part must mean something. A summary can be a fine thing, but it can never stand on its own.
In this video, we explore the crucial difference between summary and synthesis - and how to make your analysis mean something to your client.

These PDF's contain practice cases from top business schools. Use what you have learned, and provide solutions for these authentic scenarios in the field of profitability. 

These PDF's contain practice cases from top business schools. Use what you have learned, and provide solutions for these authentic scenarios concerning strategy. 

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These PDF's contain practice cases from top business schools. Use what you have learned, and provide solutions for these authentic scenarios concerning market analysis.