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Interviews

Preparation for the Case Interview:  Math, Charts and Market Sizing

Let’s face it.  A major portion of the consulting case interview tests your quantitative skills. Why? Consultants work with a lot of data and can spend a significant amount of time crunching numbers.  So your interviewers want to know that you’re comfortable with math and have strong analytic reasoning skills. Here is a play-by-play of how you […]

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Investing

Asset Management – Industry Overview (Part 1 of 4)

Asset managers are institutions that ‘manage money’ on behalf of certain beneficiaries. What does this mean exactly? Well, asset managers aim to understand client investment objectives and invest client funds in a variety of financial products and asset classes. These asset classes can include public equities/stocks, fixed income/bonds, money markets, commodities, infrastructure, real estate and […]

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Skills, Tips, and Tactics

Brand Architecture – Overview (Part 1 of 2)

Having a great mentor is critical for personal skill development, especially early in your career, and so I wanted to share the guidelines that my mentor provided me to follow in 2019 to become a better consultant / strategist. As a brief introduction, my mentor spent two summers at Bain & Co. as an Associate […]