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Cost Reduction - Structure

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Most recent answer on Jan 15, 2021

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Hi Ish, In general, for determining cost issues, you need to break down the problem into a tree/root-cause analysis and ask the highest level (but specific) questions first! In this way, you essentially move down the ... (read entire answer)

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Structuring Costs

MBB Cost Structure

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McKinsey / Accenture Alum / Got all BIG3 offers / Harvard Business School

Hi, As a candidate, I've struggled a lot with cost reduction cases since most of the case books don't have them, while you can face these cases on the case interviews. This is especially relevant for McKinsey intervie ... (read entire answer)

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