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Competitive response consulting case interview: General Motors Strategy (w/ ex-BCG & EY consultants)
🎥 Here’s a consulting case interview featuring an ex-BCG Consultant & ex-EY Parthenon Consultant focusing on a competitive response. In this case, the candidate is tasked with helping General Moter, a major automotive manfucaturing company, re-evaluate the company’s long-term strategy (phasing out combustion engine sales by 2035) in the face of short-term headwinds.
Watch Abigail Doekson (ex-BCG Consultant, Yale MBA) run Ben Wilson (ex-EY Parthenon, Darden MBA) through this competitive response case interview.
🎬 Video Sections:
00:00 Start
00:03 Introductions
00:33 Case question
02:51 Clarifying questions
05:51 Structure
10:39 Growth projections
17:59 Data analysis
22:39 Combustion engine pickups
25:21 EV vs. combustion split
33:00 Conclusion
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КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @mahmedsiddiqi95
    @mahmedsiddiqi95 День тому

    Who’s gonna make the cows run everytime?

  • @sharan0516
    @sharan0516 День тому

    Well structured answer.. however, Rachel jumped into an assumption that it is revenue growth and not user growth or time watched or movies watched. Would’ve been interesting to look at different aspects

  • @zhangchitian1335
    @zhangchitian1335 День тому

    for the math part is that only I am getting different answers? 2023 1.2 mio times 1.5 *1.5*1.5 = 9.75? For 50% of CAGR

  • @nandakumar8936
    @nandakumar8936 2 дні тому

    Its not the numbers themselves that are intimidating but the agility with which one has to process, interpret and tie back to the larger picture. Nice case though.

  • @chillidoener3308
    @chillidoener3308 7 днів тому

    Why not look into the increasing costs too? It doubled...

  • @Roosslani
    @Roosslani 7 днів тому

    That was difficult :)

  • @amirestejab
    @amirestejab 8 днів тому

    does the interviewer just not ask 'why consulting?' if it's covered in your answer for walk me through your resume? is that a good thing?

  • @kobejoseph8401
    @kobejoseph8401 11 днів тому

    I was following along solving the case and during the second quant analysis it was much easier and seemed the most straightforward approach to find revenue loss by multiplying the percentage of subscription sharing by the revenue, rather than calculating with the number of subscribers and monthly subscription cost, which should just be the revenue anyways. Why did the interviewer lead this case in this inefficient calculation method? .25*300,000,000 instead of .25*1,700,000*10*12

  • @SuyashSomani-gq7ld
    @SuyashSomani-gq7ld 14 днів тому

    At the stage where interviewee is asked which product feature to drop, why does he drops "user group selection", I feel user group selection is very crucial for experiment's success implication. Also, what did the interviewee mean by "user interaction" as a feature in user stories? Is it the engagement related aspect of email, (if so), then it would get captured in Campaign creation.

  • @xxflow7453
    @xxflow7453 15 днів тому

    Nice case. Too bad that the preparer chose to focus on employee costs. Labor force availability/shortage is a macro indicator and should not be viewed as a barrier to entry in an industry that doesn’t require niche/expert know-how. It would just impact your salary costs going forward and would result in somewhat lower margins than observed historically.

  • @mes22151
    @mes22151 16 днів тому

    Surprised not to see any analysis on Sales and Customer Support roles vs Mkt and Tech/product related to productivity. Specially since they are mostly within the 50mi of the office, and team dynamics are very different, customer experience declined and growth declined.

  • @kimfacundolkim2033
    @kimfacundolkim2033 22 дні тому

    I am a risign senior and i was wondering if this is MBA level or this would also be for associate level?

  • @minkyu0325
    @minkyu0325 23 дні тому

    The candidate does not engage the interviewer and just talks by himself far too much.

  • @fayizriyaz3739
    @fayizriyaz3739 23 дні тому

    You missed out on the important parameter of time required for the plants and trees to grow from the seed/sapling until the harvest. Do think it's an important parameter to consider?

  • @NatPineda-mu9jx
    @NatPineda-mu9jx 26 днів тому

    is this for an undergraduate level hire or MBA/ lateral hire?

  • @rod4326
    @rod4326 28 днів тому

    Maybe, from my point of view the candidate could be more structured in the brainstorming question "Which technology could the CEO fall into love in the next couple of years)": Here, the candiate could have stick again to the 3 steps in the value chain and sort ideas to the steps accordingly e.g. comissioner tools (Sorting); AI/ML for optimized trucks (Packaging) or Drones (Deliery) etc. Otherwise, thank you very much for the case!

  • @VAM_Wahoo
    @VAM_Wahoo Місяць тому

    Last question was mistyped

  • @thisismonitor4099
    @thisismonitor4099 Місяць тому

    I got all of them a tiny bit faster

  • @user-co8kb3sw3r
    @user-co8kb3sw3r Місяць тому

    Just simply a test, no? How do you react to the unexpected? Do you get anxious, mad, etc, or stay composed?

  • @johnsemenza145
    @johnsemenza145 Місяць тому

    Very helpful video. I have one question regarding the fact that the interviewee outlined his framework in the beginning but he does not ultimately touch on most of the points in his framework nor ask many questions about them. Is it common to state an entire framework out once without divining into the specifics like this? If the interviewer hadn't prompted him with new questions/graphs is the idea that he would have dove deeper into the specifics of his framework?

  • @temiladeadelakun4775
    @temiladeadelakun4775 Місяць тому

    Shout out to the interviwee... I enjoyed watching this

  • @jaseque9999
    @jaseque9999 Місяць тому

    They kinda slow

    • @m1m1kb12
      @m1m1kb12 Місяць тому

      Theyre more than enough for any real life scenarios,

    • @kennymccormick8295
      @kennymccormick8295 Місяць тому

      Was that English?

  • @olivermejiaa
    @olivermejiaa Місяць тому

    It’s astonishing how quickly he is moving through this case.

  • @shatabdibiswas7309
    @shatabdibiswas7309 Місяць тому

    Loved the way this turned out to be collaborative and a discussion. Not only the candidate did a good job, the interviewer also did a great job in being a helpful, thoughtful and teammate. This shows a lot about being collaborative from both ends.

  • @IMO9912
    @IMO9912 Місяць тому

    how are they calculating the % profit margins so quick in the quant chart(7.42), does anyone have any tips please ?

  • @saroco
    @saroco Місяць тому

    The best solution is to look for the biggest square circumscribed in a circle of radius 5. Then divide 40 into the length of that area, same with 25. Finally, multiply both results. From Pitagoras theorem, one can get 2*a=2*sqrt(c^2 /2) Where “c” is the radius of the circle, and “2*a” is the length of the square side. Replacing c=5 results in 10*sqrt(0.5) ≈ 7 Then 40/7=5.71≈6 25/7= 3.57≈4 But values must be rounded up. Then the final answer is 6*4=24

  • @vitakalma1830
    @vitakalma1830 Місяць тому

    If the valuation is 3,6 billion and the asking price is 3,0 billion, why is it not an interesting target? It seems to me the company is undervalued and therefore should be considered further

  • @user-oe3rd2nt3d
    @user-oe3rd2nt3d Місяць тому

    Thank You 😊

  • @myname-zb4bl
    @myname-zb4bl Місяць тому

    Not a good solution.

  • @yingying-tz5zk
    @yingying-tz5zk Місяць тому

    Hi there, Thanks for making such a awesome video for us. Just a quick question, how long we can think of the clarifying questions? Is there any way we could speed up?

  • @rickhouten1622
    @rickhouten1622 Місяць тому

    Rally detailed and excellent interview though it was hard to keep up with all of the details.

  • @rickhouten1622
    @rickhouten1622 Місяць тому

    Personally I would have started with a structure of how to approach the answer but otherwise the diving into the metrics by user type than roll it up to DAU makes sense

  • @rickhouten1622
    @rickhouten1622 Місяць тому

    Had to watch this 3 times but the take home point of this interview was really Matthew’s clarifying question of what the goal of this “experiment” for and this led to his drill down of the metrics to ultimately tie back to this goal

  • @sandychai9096
    @sandychai9096 Місяць тому

    This interviewee broke down the question very gracefully. Great video

  • @beautifulthings663
    @beautifulthings663 Місяць тому

    The most effective video I've ever seen. Thank You

  • @hopetateword
    @hopetateword Місяць тому

    This was great, thanks for sharing! Very helpful prep, specifically how to discuss harder to quantify KPIs

  • @zoubeirjazi5484
    @zoubeirjazi5484 Місяць тому

    Thanks for you both! Good work.

  • @princekaushik6123
    @princekaushik6123 Місяць тому

    Too many ads on your channel

  • @mohamedabdelal9322
    @mohamedabdelal9322 2 місяці тому

    That Bain Guy is super irritating, cant stop touching his beard or ears, not sure if he has ADHD or is just bored!

  • @jennarerucha6717
    @jennarerucha6717 2 місяці тому

    This was really helpful and I felt like it was a true mock interview.. not scripted. More relatable than some other videos, while being very helpful!

  • @JAYPATEL-wj5fo
    @JAYPATEL-wj5fo 2 місяці тому

    I think hybrid model should also be analyzed, as this might help boost productivity to desirable rate and at the same time have higher retention rate.

  • @kloppsliverpudlians88
    @kloppsliverpudlians88 2 місяці тому

    I would have done this differently. Square area = 40x25=1000 sq ft. Circular area per hotspot = pi x r^2 = (3)(5)(5) = 75. Therefore you need at least 1000/75 = at least ~15 hotspots + some buffer for inevitable overlap

  • @krishnadaskrishnankutty8409
    @krishnadaskrishnankutty8409 2 місяці тому

    Oh...nice❤❤❤

  • @amit_perez
    @amit_perez 2 місяці тому

    Pied Piper t-shirt is Superb! 😂 Love it!

  • @Gabriel-uq1wn
    @Gabriel-uq1wn 2 місяці тому

    How is this a bad investment?Why is the 5 year ROI important? Considering a 100k annual profit, doesn’t this investment have an annual ROE of 20%? This seems a good investment. Can someone help me?

    • @TanmayGaware-jk5rb
      @TanmayGaware-jk5rb 2 місяці тому

      The annual profit is 100K, investment cost is 500k, & we had 3 questions- profitable, payback & ROI. Investment is profitable but we have ignored some important costs as mentioned by interviewer & interviewee, payback is less than 5 years which makes it good investment but ROI shows that investment is danger as ROI= Profit/ Investment multiply by 100 multiple by 5/100. The 100 is actually the percentage (ROI always comes in percentage) so that's why we will only write 100 and secondly, its 5 years so we will multiply by 5 and divide it by 100. 100 is kinda of lifetime. Its similar technique in identifying number of people aged less than 5 in India so it would be 5/ 70 multiple by 1.4B. The 70 is lifetime of the people

  • @suraj-gd9qy
    @suraj-gd9qy 2 місяці тому

    Wrong calculation

  • @anadaruka4774
    @anadaruka4774 2 місяці тому

    I have watched both the interviews that Jesse Lau has been on for this channel, and they were both so full of information and had some very smart insights. I would love to see him in more interviews, they are very very helpful. And you can clearly see that he really enjoys his work too!

  • @chioma2743
    @chioma2743 2 місяці тому

    thanks for this 😊

  • @beukneeq5766
    @beukneeq5766 2 місяці тому

    If this is a tricky question then i'm on the wrong planet

  • @danliubovich4878
    @danliubovich4878 3 місяці тому

    the Zoom video bubble blocks the subscriber numbers in the exhibit that is around 6 min in. Can this be edited at all to move that out of the way?