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Frameworks
How to Use Consulting Frameworks in the First 90 Seconds
A four-beat opening for any case: choose a spine, adapt the branches, state a hypothesis, and hand off to the interviewer—with three worked scripts.
Fundamentals
Structured Thinking Is a Habit, Not an Opening Tree
Interviewers score structure at brainstorms, exhibits, math, and synthesis—not only the opening tree. A full transcript shows what they write down.
Fundamentals
Strategy vs Operations Consulting: Different Jobs, Different Cases
What operations engagements actually are, how cases score feasibility, and why strategy and ops careers diverge—using firm practice pages, not folklore.
Frameworks
STP in Cases: Only Quantified Targeting Earns Points
STP is a Kotler textbook tool. In cases, only targeting earns points—size × reachable share × margin—plus a clear positioning choice. Worked example inside.
Frameworks
Segmentation in Cases: Cut the Aggregate, Find the Problem
Treat segmentation as an analytical cut on revenue, cost, product, channel, or geography. Mix-effect math and a worked case where the average hides offsetting segments.
Frameworks
Scale or Profit First: Cash Runway Decides the Case
In scale vs profitability cases, contribution margin and cash runway force a sequence. Worked numbers, Rule of 40 provenance, and how interviewers score it.
Frameworks
PESTLE Framework: The One Job That Earns Case Points
Why six-bucket PESTLE rarely scores in cases, how Aguilar's ETPS scan became the acronym, and a worked example that turns regulation into cost per unit.
Firm guides
McKinsey Business Analyst: What the Job Posting Tests
What McKinsey's BA job posting actually rewards: workstream ownership, US pay ranges with sources, the ladder, and how interviews score the same skills.
Fundamentals
Consulting Team Structure: Pyramid, Leverage, Interviews
How strategy project teams are staffed, what leverage economics mean for pay versus bill rates, and why case interviews test the junior seat.
Frameworks
Framework Mistakes the Case Score Sheet Punishes
What interviewers dock when you recite a framework: six failure modes with before/after transcripts, tied to what MBB firms say they assess.
Fundamentals
Case Interview Rounds: The Full Funnel Firms Actually Run
Map application, online assessment, first round, final round, and offer for McKinsey, BCG, Bain, and Deloitte—who decides and what changes at each gate.
Firm guides
BCG One-Way Video Interview: What Recruiters Actually Screen
How BCG's Spark Hire video screen differs from live fit, a 90-second scoring heuristic, a worked answer timed to the second, and what to practice before you record.