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Dec 21, 2020

Hello everyone! This is Monday Morning 8 a.m., a weekly newsletter where we distill the insights from all of the distractions, articles, and emails that you receive in your inbox every day. In this newsletter, we’re going to focus on four major themes from last week’s news. 
 
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Dec 15, 2020

Consulting case interviews, FIT: McKinsey, BCG, Bain

This episode is a short piece from a full session available to FC Insiders on StrategyTraining website and apps.

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Dec 14, 2020

Hello everyone! This is Monday Morning 8 a.m., a weekly newsletter where we distill the insights from all of the distractions, articles, and emails that you receive in your inbox every day. In this newsletter, we’re going to focus on four major themes from last week’s news. 
 
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Dec 7, 2020

Hello everyone! This is Monday Morning 8 a.m., a weekly newsletter where we distill the insights from all of the distractions, articles, and emails that you receive in your inbox every day. In this newsletter, we’re going to focus on four major themes from last week’s news. 
 
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Dec 6, 2020

Consulting case interviews, office selection: McKinsey, BCG, Bain

This episode is a short piece from a full session available to FC Insiders on StrategyTraining website and apps.

NEW PILOT INITIATIVE - One-on-one advice session with Michael: As many of you know, we have a long waiting list for private coaching with Michael, over 3 years, and a very stringent selection process, very few people are selected. However, we launched a pilot initiative within which a few spots are available now.

You are welcome to apply for a one-on-one advice session with Michael. Can be regarding any aspect of your career: helping you develop your career plan, getting Michael's input on specific career challenge you are facing, getting advice on growing/starting your own business, preparing for case interviews, lessons from Lisa's journey to her greencard, etc.

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This is a very rare opportunity to do a one-on-one session with Michael. If your application is approved you can request additional sessions after your first session, subject to availability. Contact support@firmsconsulting.com for more details and to apply.

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Nov 30, 2020

Hello everyone! This is Monday Morning 8 a.m., a weekly newsletter where we distill the insights from all of the distractions, articles, and emails that you receive in your inbox every day. In this newsletter, we’re going to focus on four major themes from last week’s news. 
 
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Nov 29, 2020

TCO V Ritika Mohan, Ph.D, joins McKinsey Chicago. An excerpt from one of the episodes we released for our members. Ritika Mohan is a University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign M.S. & Ph.D., and University of Arizona, Tucson BS graduate who we trained to join MBB Midwestern USA.

In The Consulting Offer watch former McKinsey et al senior partners mentor real candidates into the most elite consulting firms. Across 5 seasons, the program has never failed to place a participant.

WHAT IS IT: The Consulting Offer is a groundbreaking case interview training program using REAL participants. All training is done by ex-McKinsey, BCG et al partners using the techniques we developed in our 1-on-1 coaching programs where we have an 80% placement rate. Subscribers can watch video recordings of the candidates being trained for McKinsey, BCG and Bain case interviews. The show is now in its 6th season with all seasons available for streaming.

There is NO other program in the world with real candidates being trained in real time with the results made public. Everything on StrategyTV.com along with our most advanced strategy programs can be found on StrategyTraining.com.

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Nov 23, 2020

Hello everyone! This is Monday Morning 8 a.m., a weekly newsletter where we distill the insights from all of the distractions, articles, and emails that you receive in your inbox every day. In this newsletter, we’re going to focus on four major themes from last week’s news. 
 
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Nov 20, 2020

TCO V Ritika Mohan, Ph.D, joins McKinsey Chicago. An excerpt from one of 25 episodes (episode 24) we released for our members. Ritika Mohan is a University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign M.S. & Ph.D., and University of Arizona, Tucson BS graduate who we trained to join MBB Midwestern USA.

In The Consulting Offer watch former McKinsey et al senior partners mentor real candidates into the most elite consulting firms. Across 5 seasons, the program has never failed to place a participant.

WHAT IS IT: The Consulting Offer is a groundbreaking case interview training program using REAL participants. All training is done by ex-McKinsey, BCG et al partners using the techniques we developed in our 1-on-1 coaching programs where we have an 80% placement rate. Subscribers can watch video recordings of the candidates being trained for McKinsey, BCG and Bain case interviews. The show is now in its 6th season with all seasons available for streaming.

There is NO other program in the world with real candidates being trained in real time with the results made public. Everything on StrategyTV.com along with our most advanced strategy programs can be found on StrategyTraining.com.

Members can watch all episodes here: https://www.strategytraining.com/tco-v-ritika-mohan-ph-d-joins-mckinsey-chicago

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Nov 16, 2020

Hello everyone! This is Monday Morning 8 a.m., a weekly newsletter where we distill the insights from all of the distractions, articles, and emails that you receive in your inbox every day. In this newsletter, we’re going to focus on four major themes from last week’s news. 
 
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Nov 9, 2020

Hello, everyone! This is Monday Morning 8 a.m., a weekly newsletter where we distill the insights from all of the distractions, articles, and emails that you receive in your inbox every day. In this week’s newsletter, we’re going to focus on one overarching theme—risk—and you’ll see that theme running through all of the big stories this week.

So let's see how this new Monday Morning 8 a.m. format goes. Every week we will look at 3-4 themes, or one theme and 3-4 subthemes. What are the big stories and what are the big implications. Let us know if you like or dislike the style.

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Nov 2, 2020

Hi, everyone. This is Monday Morning 8 a.m., a newsletter that goes out—as you guessed it—every Monday. You can listen to the audio version of this Monday Morning 8 a.m. episode by searching “Strategy Skills” in any podcast app! And you can get written version with relevant links to articles when you sign up on www.firmsconsulting.com/promo (it's free).
 
In this newsletter, we have one goal: to help you distill the insights from the noise out there. So here are the big themes we’re noticing in the news this week and the deep insights you should be extracting from those themes. 

Oct 28, 2020

Hi, everyone. This is Monday Morning 8 a.m., an audio version of a newsletter that goes out—as you guessed it—every Monday.

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Oct 14, 2020

An explosive expose of Samsung, one of the biggest and most secretive companies in the world, as the Korean juggernaut battles Apple and Sony to dominate the world of technology.

Seen for decades in tech circles as a fast follower rather than an innovation leader, Samsung today has grown to become a market leader in the United States and around the globe. They have captured one quarter of the smartphone market and have been pushing the envelope on every front. In SAMSUNG RISING: The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant that Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech, Geoffrey Cain offers a penetrating look behind the curtains of the biggest company nobody in America knows.

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Sep 20, 2020

We hope you will enjoy the "Consulting case interview (McKinsey, BCG, Bain) example: French Dairy Farm Wants to Increase Revenue" episode. This is an excerpt from TCO IV with Sizan, episode 33.

This is a market share case. If we gave Sizan a case about a factory she would find it easier to increase production. But it is not as easy when it comes to dealing with animals. This is a case with production element.

The part we expect candidates to see is that this is a case about stealing market share. To steal market share there are 4 things you can do.

How do you steal market share?

1. Price

2. Place

3. Promotion

4. Product.

The 4 Ps of marketing.

You need to think about the case. Ask yourself what are we trying to do. We got a dairy company. We want to sell more. What does it mean to sell more?

We basically want to increase our market share. How do we take market share?

Every single case can be reduced to either increasing revenue or cutting costs. If you trying to sell more milk, you are trying to increase revenue. This is a revenue case where we specifically want to focus on volume.

Milk is a commodity. Even organic milk is a commodity.

Remember you need to follow the right process during a consulting case interview when you are preparing and going through interviews with companies like McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Deloitte etc. In fact, learning and mastering this process will also greatly help you when you start working as a management consultant, and even once you exit consulting.

You can't just rely on your knowledge and experience. Your experience and knowledge can get outdated, but if you follow the right process you are giving yourself the best chance to be a strong problem solver.

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Sep 12, 2020

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Aug 26, 2020

Peter Dahlstrom, senior partner at McKinsey & Company, leads McKinsey’s client and firm communications. As the global leader for McKinsey Digital’s B2C team, he serves leading institutions in the telecommunications, high-tech, media, and fast-moving consumer-goods industries.

Aug 8, 2020

Listen to this thought-provoking discussion between Michael and Rob Markey, Bain and Company's partner.We talk about customer strategy, how should we define the loyalty of a customer, what generates loyalty, what steps do you take to build loyalty in a customer base. Rob Markey, a partner and director at Bain & Company and the founder of the firm’s Global Customer Strategy and Marketing practice. He is a co-author of The Ultimate Question 2.0 and is the host of the Net Promoter System podcast. He is based in New York.

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Jul 28, 2020

Here is episode 369 from the Case Interviews & Management Consulting iTunes podcast channel, "How to manage like Amazon (with Ram Charan)."

Every business wants to succeed like Amazon so we invited New York Times bestselling author & CEO Advisor Ram Charan to talk about How to Manage Like Amazon.

From their high-velocity decision-making to their top talent hiring practices to their “Forever Day-1 Culture”, the secrets behind Amazon’s success are now within anyone’s grasp.

Find out how Amazon does it and how you can too by listening to this fascinating conversation between Michael and Ram, whom Fortune calls “The most influential consultant alive” and whose book Execution spent 150 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.

Jul 21, 2020

One of the greatest challenges organizational leaders face is successfully leading large-scale change. And who is better to cover this topic than Bill Schaninger, Senior Partner at McKinsey and a global leader of their Organization Practice.

Bill focuses on driving large-scale organizational and cultural change for clients across North America, Europe, and the Middle East. 

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May 31, 2020

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May 16, 2020

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Feb 27, 2020

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Feb 20, 2020

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Meet Daniel Ramirez. Ex Accenture strategy consultant, Duke graduate, and an FC Insider. Watch to get practical advice to help you achieve #careersuccess, regardless of if you are trying to become a partner at big 4 (PwC, KPMG, Deloitte, E&Y), at MBB (McKinsey, Bain or BCG), another consulting firm like Accenture or trying to succeed in any organization outside of consulting.

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