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Columbia Business School: Resume Checklist
A checklist to ensure your resume meets the bar for Columbia Business School.
Product Design Challenges
Use these challenges to sharpen your product execution skills.
Writing the “Why MBA?” Essay
Learn to clearly articulate why you need an MBA now, why each school fits, and how it connects to your long-term vision.
Product Deep Dive
This exercise will help you analyze key aspects of a product, including its target audience, pain points, differentiators, and areas for improvement.
The Five Most Important Geometry Equations in the GRE
Geometry can be one of the trickiest parts of the GRE Quant section—but with the right formulas at your fingertips, you can approach these questions with confidence. In this workshop, Matt R.—a top GRE coach with years of experience helping students boost their scores—will break down the five most essential geometry equations you need to know before test day.
How AI Helps: From Drafts to Decisions
Learn how AI supports planning, writing, and problem-solving with clear human guardrails and practical examples.
Working Effectively With ChatGPT
After reading this guide, you will learn how ChatGPT typically behaves, why its answers sometimes feel inconsistent, and how to respond best to it.
Best Questions to Ask in a Job Interview
A practical guide to asking smart, strategic questions that impress interviewers and showcase your fit in investment banking interviews.
Landing the Interview: Consulting Networking 101
Networking is often the single most important—and most misunderstood—part of landing interviews at top consulting firms. In this session, you’ll learn how to strategically build connections, approach coffee chats with confidence, and leave a lasting impression that translates into interview invites. From emails to LinkedIn outreach to in-person conversations, we’ll break down the practical steps you need to take to stand out. The workshop will be led by Tony C., a Leland coach and former BCG consultant who has helped many candidates successfully navigate the consulting recruiting process. You’ll walk away with clear strategies, actionable templates, and the confidence to make networking one of your strongest assets in recruiting.
Perfecting Technical Delivery
By mid-January, technical knowledge is a commodity. You and your peers all know the finance. What differentiates candidates at this stage is delivery. Interviews are a structured verbal game with specific mechanics and unwritten rules, and success depends on more than having the right answer. In this session, we’ll decode how interviews are actually evaluated and show you how framing, structure, and communication style signal executive presence and confidence. Moving beyond technical correctness, we’ll focus on the tactics that help strong candidates stand out—how to organize responses for clarity, avoid common delivery pitfalls, and communicate at a level that resonates with senior interviewers. Led by experienced interview coaches who have helped candidates secure offers at top firms, this session will give you practical, immediately applicable tools to turn solid preparation into an offer-winning performance.
Breaking Into & Excelling in Product Marketing: Top 10 Proven Attributes of Exceptional PMMs
Product Marketing is one of the most dynamic and impactful roles in marketing. It is also not consistently defined across organizations. Without a clear understanding of what truly drives success, it’s easy to get overlooked for promotions, or miss the mark when trying to break into the role. Join Amy Chou (Former Google & TikTok Product Marketing Exec) and Kevin Au (Former Product Marketing Executive at Bill) for a 45-minute Q&A style discussion. Designed for: Marketers looking to break into PMM, and Current PMMs wanting to level up and accelerate their career growth Together, these two former PMM senior leaders will share insider insights on the Top 10 Attributes of Exceptional PMMs, qualities that separate great PMMs from good ones. You’ll walk away with: What hiring managers really look for when building PMM teams. The critical skills and traits top-performing PMMs consistently demonstrate. Guidance to assess your own strengths and identify growth areas. Real-world examples of how these show up in day-to-day work. Join us and leave with practical tips to elevate your impact and accelerate your PMM growth!
GRE Arithmetic - Percent Bakery Question
This is a review for how to structure and solve a percent change question for the GRE.
BCG Casey Chatbot 3 – Novofoods (Mildana)
Practice test 3
Why AI? Setting the Foundation
Understand the purpose of AI in organizations and how a people-first approach drives lasting value.
The Jobs to Be Done Framework
Learn what Jobs to Be Done means, how to write effective JTBD statements using the three-part formula, and see real examples from companies like Notion, Airbnb, and Spotify. Understand why knowing the "job" reveals your real competition and transforms how you think about your product.
Jobs to Be Done Framework Reference Guide with Multi-Industry Examples
Reference guide covering the JTBD formula, real-world examples across B2B and B2C companies (Spotify, Peloton, Slack, HubSpot, Figma, and more), and quick tips for applying JTBD thinking to your startup. Use this to understand the framework deeply and see how different companies address different jobs for different customer segments.
Synthesizing Interview Discoveries into Useful Insights
Learn how to consolidate interview data, identify patterns (problem, solution, pain point, language, and buyer patterns), prioritize insights using frequency × urgency framework, validate your JTBD statement with real customer language, and make three critical decisions: Is this worth solving? What's the MVP? Who do we build for first?
Interview Synthesis Guide: From Data to Decisions
Step-by-step synthesis guide covering the 5-step process (consolidate, identify patterns, prioritize, validate JTBD, decide what to build), pattern-finding questions to ask across interviews, priority framework matrix, common synthesis mistakes to avoid, signs you've done good synthesis, and an action plan.
The How Might We Framework for Reframing Problems
Learn what makes a great "How Might We" statement (broad enough for creativity, narrow enough to be actionable, outcome-focused), see examples from Notion and Loom showing insight-to-HMW transformation, and get tips for writing HMWs that inspire your team.
How Might We Framework Summary Guide
Reference covering what HMW is, how to write HMW statements step-by-step, good vs. bad examples with explanations, common mistakes to avoid (prescribing solutions, being too vague, ignoring research), insights for creating your own HMWs, and validation checklist. Use this to turn each key insight into 2-3 different HMW framings and select the most inspiring ones.
