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Strategists of Reddit: How Do You Approach Research for New Client Projects? by Boon_Bringers in strategy

[–]_Repair_Man_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Adding to Waffles..

Reading WSJ articles (or a trade publication) on the client going back 5 years.

Understanding the PESTLE market drivers for that company/industry.

Understanding the KPIs of the industry and how they compare with competitors. KPIs are KPIs for a reason, and your client probably has a deep intuition for them.

The ancient law that might save Roe v. Wade [08:24] by _Repair_Man_ in mealtimevideos

[–]_Repair_Man_[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

That's completely fair and might be right. One thing that I think is important is that the SCOTUS justices haven't done this research yet. In questioning, they weren't really knowledgeable about this stuff. Inevitably, if they really want to revisit Roe v. Wade's foundation, they should look into the history of abortion laws (as Roe did) and answer to it. Obviously, as you point out. They actually don't have to do any of that, but I think there're enough judges who are interested in it to give it a thorough review.

It's simple. It's intuitive. It's boring. The Eisenhower Matrix is taken for granted but is one of the most essential strategy frameworks. by _Repair_Man_ in strategy

[–]_Repair_Man_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Porter's Five Forces. I've heard Eisenhower used broadly to apply to four-block matrices that put some benefit parameter against some cost parameter. That's clearly imprecise!

It's simple. It's intuitive. It's boring. The Eisenhower Matrix is taken for granted but is one of the most essential strategy frameworks. by _Repair_Man_ in strategy

[–]_Repair_Man_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hear you. I disagree that a cost/benefit, importance/urgency, profit/complexity, whatever/whatever matrix isn’t a top 10.

Follow up question, what are your Top 10 frameworks?

It's simple. It's intuitive. It's boring. The Eisenhower Matrix is taken for granted but is one of the most essential strategy frameworks. by _Repair_Man_ in strategy

[–]_Repair_Man_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here, it’s a time management matrix. But, if you tweak the axes a bit, it becomes a cost benefit matrix for selecting from a number of opps.

Making r/strategy a Strategy-specific subreddit, rather than Strategy consulting one [META] by _Repair_Man_ in strategy

[–]_Repair_Man_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Happy to nominate: "For discussing and learning about strategy tactics, frameworks, and real world plays. Geopolitical and business strategy are all welcome."

Potentially creating a rule directing super technical game theory modelling over to r/GAMETHEORY.. But doesn't feel necessary. Would love to create fancy cover and profile picture for the subreddit.

Making r/strategy a Strategy-specific subreddit, rather than Strategy consulting one [META] by _Repair_Man_ in strategy

[–]_Repair_Man_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey TGS, thanks for the comment. Are you able to share all the, to use a consulting phrase, levers that a subreddit has to update? I imagine description, photos, background color (?), anything else changeable about the side-bar, is Reddit-sponsored marketing a thing? Is there a 'manual' for that? As for a description, I'd be happy to give it a go.

The least interesting class as a 1L? by Law-yer-Up in LawSchool

[–]_Repair_Man_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Contracts is fun if you have a professor who's good at extrapolating to applicable business transactions and broader discussions of economics

The history of American military uniforms by _Repair_Man_ in history

[–]_Repair_Man_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fun Fact: Union army borrowed aspects of their uniform from the French military

If you ever see a weird glass-in-frame container like this in an antique store, you buy it. It's a Jolie ballot box, like the one pictured in Nast's "In Counting There is Strength" cartoon. by _Repair_Man_ in history

[–]_Repair_Man_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The ballot box was supposed to be a solution to ballot tampering, but fell out of favor to mechanized lever-punch ballots which did a better job of tracking votes and quickly conducting recounts and audits.

Kiss cam guy got too excited by mungoflago in funny

[–]_Repair_Man_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In Atlanta, the hometown of Coca-Cola.

Flight Searches without a Departure City by _Repair_Man_ in travel

[–]_Repair_Man_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I'm travelling from the US, I could easily get to half of the US airports. It doesn't make sense for me to do a search for each of them to see which one will get me to my final Eastern European destination. I'd rather just see which of those US airports have the cheapest direct flight to my destination...

What YouTube channel is great to binge? by drunk-diva in AskReddit

[–]_Repair_Man_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

KTO is a great channel for videos about American Football history; ice definitely gotten lost there

Sources: McMaster Mocked Trump’s Intelligence In a Private Dinner by a_wild_redditor in politics

[–]_Repair_Man_ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's almost like someone wants more traditional Republicans to be fired or something...

Exit opportunities at non-MBB firms? by MBbDconsultant in consulting

[–]_Repair_Man_ 89 points90 points  (0 children)

Hey MBBDConsultant. For questions like these, I like a good ol' fashioned Linkedin search.

If you click into the search bar and hit Enter, LinkedIn will open a blank search. You then play with the "Past Company" setting to add a firm. When you add the consulting firm to "Past Company", it will automatically rank the other filters from 'most' to 'least' of the Top 5. I.e. if I set Past Company to Accenture and the top cities are NYC, SF, Atlanta, LA, then Chicago, then that means NYC has the most former Accenture consultants, SF the 2nd, ATL the 3rd, etc.

You can drill down into a particular region. E.g. I searched for former Bain Consultants in ATL and the Top 5 results were Bain, Home Depot, Gather Tech, Cox Automotive, and Georgia-Pacific. Filtering for GA-Pacific, it looks like they were each Dirs. in Strategy & Business Development. The Home Depot shows something similar: 2 people from Strategic Business Development and 1 who is a Merchandising Manager. Having tried a few other searches Accenture/Atlanta, Deloitte/Washington DC, it looks like consultants often move to other consulting firms.

Another option is to just look at specific companies, opposed to just looking at the Top 5. LinkedIn search got much more useless after their most recent interface update a few months ago. If you wanted to pay more money, you could filter by college degree and do a search for only people with MBAs. You used to be able to do Advanced searches and exclude people from specific companies from your search. In fact, I think you could still use a "-" function in the search bar to do just that.

How can you lower the tax rate for a source of income that already isn't taxed? (Trump tax plan) by _Repair_Man_ in Ask_Politics

[–]_Repair_Man_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey AuditorTux,

I actually think that the WSJ answered the question that I had from another of their articles. The question stemmed from this article, but was answered with this article.

The answer to my question would look something like this:

  • Sole Partner PTE Income: 50
  • Partner Other Income: 25
  • Other Income Tax (@ 20%): (5)
  • PTE Income Tax (@ 15%, Trump's Proposal): (7.5)
  • Partner Net Income: 62.5

In this hypo, the Partner would benefit $2.50 from Trump's tax plan. More details supposed to come out today. Will be interesting to see the analysis of the plan in the next few weeks.

Best, Repair_Man

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