Benedict Say- business analyst

Vince Yap – business associate

Jasmine-

BCG- Private Sector, Social Sector, Public Sector

1. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
2. Save the Children
3. WWF

If you’re against capitalism, you can work with these foundations

90 offices
1. BCG Office in Manila
a. Can be staffed anywhere in Asia
b. Exchange
2. Associate Exchange Program (‘The Globe is in Your Hands’)
a. Going to USA, Africa (1 year)
b. Fast growing, data, and analytics (China)

Need Strong Support System

- Build a BCG family that works with Manila Office
- Highest growing office (very ripe)
- Everybody needs to contribute (small company)

Get Best Bosses, Trainings, Managers

Startup
- Because it’s still very small
- Flat structure
- Mutual respect

Big Corporation
- Lot of sources all around the globe
- Reach person in US to leverage information on a similar case

One of the Best Places to Work In

- Could work late
- But workload comes in cycles
- Sometimes you don’t work but still get paid
o Corporate- operations never stop

Project Work
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Collaborative process
- You can ask others how they did it
- Brainstorming together

I’d like to ask each of you

Sometimes you feel like you’re never enough

- Fast-paced
- So different, like always in a career ship
- Working with different nationalities
- So many types of cultures and different levels (CEOs, managers, etc)
o Working in different cultures

You’re all on the same boat, trying to figure things out

- Can ask help from experts, clients

There’s so much we don’t know, but resources are there

- Now: How do we leverage these resources

Career Accelerator Program Case Comp

- Students in their final year
1. Team
2. Preliminary round case submission plus (resume)
3. Top 10 teams final round
4. Finalists Strategy Masterclass (10 finalists)
5. Final Round

Case:
Client is CEO of major conglomerate. Enter B2c payments industry in the Philippines
- Has working and unbranded payments platform
- Strong support team
- 5 billions pesos to burn
- Expects 10% IRR across a 5-year period

Should they enter the Philippine market?

Why or Why not?

What should be their strategy?

Why will it succeed or fail at meeting the CEO’s target

What does the return look like?

Impress with clearness, impactful, detailed the projections are.
Show why you put that specific recommendation?

10 page deck (excluding title page)

- Overall recommended strategy and business model
- Financials- projected 5-year revenue, EBITDA, Net Income, Cash Flows, NPV, and IRR
- Assumptions and thinking behind your strategy and numbers

How to tackle case:

1. Defang the problem
a. What is the problem?
i. Then break it down to parts
ii. Key components that have to be true so my answer will be right

Sources:
1. Articles
2. Multiple sources
3. Find 2 or three to corroborate arguments
4. Financial statements

1. Insight and Creativity 50%- what are you going for

a. What’s the path to getting there
b. Acid test- must be strongly convinced that the recommendation is the optial
course of action
2. Communication
a. Precise
b. No need to get into small texts to explain
c. CEO knows what you’re getting at
Title: clearly establishes key message if skude
- 1 message per slide
- E.g. Greece needs to explore social policies to avoid further deeping their public
spending gap
Body: not pure text, supporting data that is the data
Overall:
- Clear, powerful, coherent, honest, audience centric
Sources:
- APA MLA no need, document key assumptions and definintions

Do’s and Don’ts

BCG Application Stages

1. Fit, resume
2. Skills assessment (accelerated here)
 3. Case interview
One on one interview – you can ask for a simulation
- Like talking to a CEO
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At this stage, how can we prepare for a consulting career?

Not everyone can be an A student

How do we address apprehensions that we’re not decorated enough

I mean, how did you guys do it? What advice would you give?

How did you get into BCG? How did you prepare? What were you guys like in college?
Were you highly decorated individuals?

Practice Tests and Average Testing on the BCG Page

- Preparation
o How to think about a problem
o How do I do it?
o How can I communicate it ?

Rice and Agriculture in The Philippines

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation