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Strategy Simplified — 46 episodes

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S24E20: Case Competition Applications Close Sunday at Midnight

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S24E19: Why BCG Is Racing to Hire Forward Deployed Engineers

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S24E18: Deloitte, PwC, and 4,500 Firms Can't Find Adobe Talent

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S24E17: 3 Weeks Before McKinsey and BCG – How Not to Burn Out

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S24E16: AI Took the Grunt Work – Consultants Are Getting Promoted Faster

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S24E15: McKinsey's Cases Are Interviewer-Led – Most Candidates Practice the Wrong Way

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S24E14: Why McKinsey Asks up to 25 Follow-Up Questions in the PEI

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S24E13: The AI Hire Every Consulting Firm Is Struggling to Find

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S24E12: A McKinsey Coach's Playbook for Winning Case Competitions

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S24E11: Inside Private Equity Consulting: AI Bets, Harder Exits, and Real Diligence

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S24E10: The Toothbrush Test: Why Most Case Frameworks Fail at MBB

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S24E9: Inside a Bates White Economic Consulting Case Interview

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S24E8: Private Equity Consulting Firms Have a Sameness Problem

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S24E7: MBA Case Prep in 2–4 Weeks: An Ex-Bain Interviewer's Plan

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S24E6: McKinsey Solve Game 2026: What It Is and How to Prepare

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S24E5: McKinsey Case Interview Example: Electric Truck Market Entry

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S24E4: She Bombed MBB Her First Try – Then Landed 2 Offers the Next Time

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S24E3: 3 Questions That Kill Your Case Interview Opening

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S24E2: How Consulting Firms Really Score Case Interviews

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S24E1: The Hottest Consulting Sectors to Target in 2026

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S23E30: Why Retail Consulting Firms Are Losing Market Share

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S23E29: How to Build Business Acumen for Consulting

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S23E28: How to Use AI in Case Prep (And How Not To)

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S23E27: Former BCG Consultant Runs a Live Higher Education Case Interview

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S23E26: Everyone Thinks AI Is Killing Consulting. The Data Says the Opposite

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S23E25: BCG HireQuotient: What It Is, How It's Scored, and How to Pass It

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S23E24: Consumer & Retail Consulting in 2026 – What the Top Firms Are Watching

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S23E23: The Unsexy Habit That Landed Him a BCG Offer

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S23E22: Case Interviews Got Harder at MBB in 2026 – Here's What Changed

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S23E21: The Real Driver Behind the Energy Consulting Boom

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S23E20: The 4 Case Prep Gaps Costing You the Offer

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S23E19: BCG Case Interview – Solar Energy Revenue Decline

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S23E18: 5 Candidates Share What Actually Got Them MBB Offers

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S23E17: Ex-Bain Interviewer Shares What Gets You Hired at Bain

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S23E16: How AI is Disrupting the Consulting Model | Arda Ecevit, Ex-Bain & NexStrat AI Founder

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S23E15: He Quit His Job to Break Into Consulting

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S23E14: Ex-BCG Principal: Why 22 Cases Beat 100 (And What Actually Gets Offers)

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S23E13: How to Crush Your First 90 Days in Consulting

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S23E12: Energy Consulting Is Exploding – 3 Insiders Break Down Why

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S23E11: 400 Bain Resumes Reviewed – 3 Mistakes She Saw Every Time

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S23E10: BCG Revamped the CCA – An Ex-BCG Consultant Breaks It Down

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S23E9: The 5 Places Consultants Go After MBB

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S23E8: Bain First Round Case: Luxury Helicopter Manufacturer Profitability Decline

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S23E7: 30 Cases Wasn't Enough for MBB

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S23E6: Steel Industry to McKinsey: What Most MBAs Get Wrong

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S23E5: The Summer Prep Window MBAs Miss – And How to Use It