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| Introduction | |
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| Why the Case | |
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| Types of Case Interviews | |
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| Skills Assessed in the Case Interview | |
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| What Kind of Case Will I get? | |
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| Case Strategies | |
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| Your Objective | |
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| Don't Fret | |
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| Top 10 tips for answering business case questions successfully | |
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| Common Problems and Troubleshooting | |
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| Thinking About the Case | |
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| The Case Checklist | |
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| Specific Types of Business Cases | |
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| Case Frameworks | |
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| Basic Concepts and Frameworks | |
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| Basic Overview of Financial Statements | |
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| Advanced Concepts and Frameworks | |
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| Net present value | |
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| The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) | |
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| Porter's Five Forces | |
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| PIE: The next generation of Porter's Five Forces | |
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| SWOT Analysis | |
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| The Seven S Framework | |
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| Product life cycle curve | |
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| Strategy tool/framework chart | |
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| The Four Ps | |
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| The Four Cs | |
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| The Five Cs | |
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| Value chain analysis | |
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| Core competencies | |
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| Benchmarking and "best practices" | |
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| The 2x2 matrix | |
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| The BCG matrix | |
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| M&A cases: Value drivers framework | |
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| M&A cases: Target and market assessment | |
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| M&A cases: Data gathering and analysis | |
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| Being There | |
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| What It's Like Being in a Case Interview | |
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| The Case | |
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| Real Life Interviews | |
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| Boston Consulting Group | |
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| McKinsey & Company | |
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| Monitor Group | |
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| A.T. Kearney | |
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| L.E.K. Consulting | |
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| Business Cases | |
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| Case Formats | |
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| Practice Questions | |
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| Thinking Strategically | |
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| Using the Four Ps | |
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| Sailing the Five Cs | |
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| A Written Case | |
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| The Financial Case Interview | |
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| Additional Practice Questions | |
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| And Try These for More Practice | |
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| Interactive Cases | |
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| A Fit Interview in Disguise | |
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| How to Use the Interactive Cases | |
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| How to Run an Interactive Case Exercise | |
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| Tips for the Case | |
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| Sample Interactive Cases | |
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| Presentation Cases | |
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| General Tips and Tricks for All Presentation Cases | |
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| Presentation Case Type 1 - Research Case | |
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| Research Case Example: Pure Meats | |
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| Presentation Case Type 2 - Complete the Presentation | |
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| Complete the Presentation Example: Wells Incorporated | |
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| Presentation Case Type 3 - Teach Me Something | |
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| Difficult Situation Cases | |
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| Consulting Interviews by Phone | |
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| Guesstimates | |
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| "Guesstimate" Case Interviews | |
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| Acing Guesstimates | |
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| Practice Guesstimate Questions | |
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| More Guesstimates... | |
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| And Try These for More Practice | |
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| Brainteasers | |
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| Brainteasers | |
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| Remember... | |
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| Practice Brainteasers... | |
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| Final Analysis | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Consulting Glossary | |