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Who Should Get an MBA--and Who Shouldn't
Before spending your time and money applying to school, you should decide if you really want and need an MBA
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Ace Your Case: Consulting Interviews
The most dreaded part of the consulting interview: the case! Like it or not, if you're hoping to get a job in management consulting, you will have to learn how to handle the case interview. Although different firms and interviewers vary in their approaches to the case question, all of them use it as an...
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Ace Your Case III: Market-Sizing Questions
All consulting candidates will face some form of the market-sizing case. Designed to test your facility with logic and numbers, a market-sizing question may stand on its own or be part of a larger case. Either way, you'll need to juggle your skills in quantitative analysis and employ common sense. Fortunately,...
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Ace Your Case II: Mastering the Case Interview
The case interview is analytical, quantitative, creative, and challenging. In short, it's just like real consulting work, which is why consulting recruiters use the case interview as a primary means of evaluating interviewees. This follow-up to WetFeet's popular Ace Your Case guide provides 15 more case...
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Ace Your Case V: Business Operations Questions
Business operations cases test your practical ability to get things done. From logistics and human resources to distribution and financing, operations questions cover the core issues that make companies run. But just because they're practical doesn't mean they're easy. Fortunately, by studying up on the case...
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Ace Your Case IV: Business Strategy Questions
For most consultants, business strategy is the fun stuff: It's where you really get to show off your creativity along with your business savvy. But during the case interview, business strategy questions can also be the most challenging-make a bad recommendation and you could run a company into the ground. With...
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Brand Characteristics of an Entrepreneur
The following attributes will help you understand what qualities can help you win the entrepreneurship game
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Alternative Career Paths for MBAs
As Wall Street attempts to clear the debris of the economic fallout, the nonprofit and public sectors have become an attractive new option for MBAs
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Careers in Investment Banking
Intensely competitive, action-oriented, and profit-hungry, investment banking is a larger-than-life world where deals-and fortunes-are made and lost by the day's closing bell. It's a great place to learn the ins and outs of corporate finance and develop analytical skills that will prove useful throughout any...
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Beat the Street® II: I-Banking Interview Practice Guide
Investment banking interviews are some of the most challenging and competitive interviews you're likely to face. As such, they require extensive preparation. This companion to Beat the Street offers more detailed explanations of the types of questions you're likely to encounter, along with a list of recruiters'...