Karthik R.
5.0
ex-BCG PL, coached 100+ mentees to MBB; Led Wharton's Consulting Prep Club
Studied at The Wharton School (UPenn)
Works at JCPenney
Available Friday at 3:30 AM UTC
Usually responds within 1 hour
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Karthik’s Management Consulting Qualifications
Experience level: Case Team Leader
100+ people coached for Management Consulting
Open to working with clients outside the U.S.
Karthik has helped clients get into these companies:
As an ex-BCG Project Leader and Interviewer, I'm intimately familiar with the consulting interview process, spanning from case to behavioral interviews. I specialize in taking a "ground up" approach to building specific core consulting interview skills, then integrating them into a strong overall case interviewing muscle. My approach has garnered significant positive feedback and recognition, resulting in me being appointed the management consulting case prep lead at Wharton (for my MBA) and McCombs (for my undergrad). Through this experience, I have helped nearly 100 mentees with their case prep journeys. For my efforts, I was awarded the Career Mentorship award at Wharton. I am fortunate to still have strong contact with many of my mentees, nearly all of whom have gone on great careers at McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Oliver Wyman, Deloitte, and Accenture (as well as other firms). Several of these mentees have gone on to achieve great post-consulting careers as well, ranging from Private Equity, to Tech Product Management, to Corporate Strategy I break down my feedback on each case interview into 5 areas, and give detailed, actionable feedback on each: Clarification, Frameworking, Quantitative Analysis, Qualitative Analysis, and Synthesis. This approach has been strongly validated by mentees and resulted in offers across all top firms.
Karthik can help with:
Skill Building
LinkedIn Review
Case Interview Prep
Cover Letters
Resume Review
Networking Strategy
Frameworks
Behavioral Interview Prep
About Karthik
I'm a passionate case coach with over a decade of experience coaching and mentoring across capacities, but most specifically for the management consulting interview process. I have prepared over 100 candidates for the management consulting process, through my time leading the case preparation organizations at UT Austin's McCombs School of Business (Undergrad), the Wharton School (MBA), and as a for-hire case coach at MyConsultingCoach. The vast majority of my students have received offers at top consulting firms, and several continue to use the structured thinking approaches in their post-consulting careers as well. What sets me apart as a coach is my own genuine struggle in going through the interview process. I wasn't a "case savant" that just fell backwards into a consulting offer. I had to teach myself, from first principles, how to systematically build and integrate casing skills, and that approach has made it possible for me to explain my learnings in a patient, constructive way to students that may be struggling with specific aspects of their candidacy
Why do I coach?
Mentorship and teaching are core to my family history: My grandfather was the first in his family to go to college and became a Chemistry Professor, my mother runs a tutoring academy, and my father is an Accounting Professor. They instilled in me a core belief that while an individual's hard work and aptitude ultimately drive their outcomes, a well-timed, knowledgeable coach can be the unlock to setting an individual up for their desired path. I firmly believe in the value of the saved time that comes from a coach "guiding" you towards the right work to do. There's no silver bullet for getting consulting offers, and I know that. However, my north star is carefully listening to and observing my mentees, identifying the (sometimes subtle) behaviors and tendencies that act as blocks in their performance, and come up with a systematic, replicable, and efficient process so you see progress each and every "rep" you go through. Nothing gives me more satisfaction than the "aha" moment, when you see that the dots have connected, and your mentee has learnt a skill that previous seemed out of reach
Work Experience
Director of Finance
JCPenney
August 2023 - Present
Member of the Finance Leadership Team (FLT) of direct reports to the CFO; Collectively, we drive the financial agenda of JCPenney Lead the multi-year efficiency program across the enterprise, driving a program that generates and realizes ~$100M in savings per year Develop and execute operating rhythms (e.g. Long-Range Planning, Annual Operating Plan, Monthly Business Reporting) for the Finance function and serve as a liaison with key partner functions (Customer/Marketing, Merchandising, Store Operations, Strategy/Transformation, and HR) Develop executive updates and materials for quarterly board meetings with ownership (Simon Property Group and Brookfield Asset Management) Execute special projects on priority items on behalf of the CEO/CFO; Examples include Development of Company Real Estate/Footprint Strategy, Development of Compensation Metrics
Project Leader
Boston Consulting Group
2022 - 2023
Promoted in earliest window to Project Leader (Engagement Manager) level. Projects led include: IT integration design and roadmap creation of parent company and multiple acquirees in the consumer goods space Operating model definition for integration in the consumer goods space Created and led a design thinking workshop for a city government, leveraging key BCG experts Data Governance strategy for a F500 CPG company
Consultant
Boston Consulting Group
2020 - 2021
Re-joined BCG after being financially sponsored for a two-year MBA; Projects include: Post Merger Integration: Integration Management Office in the convenience store space. Part of IMO that coordinated and oversaw integration of 20+ functions (e.g. Finance, HR, IT) across companies Organizational Design for Merchandising function of a Convenience Store Chain
Corporate Strategy
Kimberly-Clark
May 2020 - October 2020
Contract Work between graduating from my MBA and rejoining BCG in November 2020 (Start Date delayed at BCG due to COVID) Corporate Strategy: 5-year Enterprise Strategic Planning (cross-region and cross-sector strategy development)
Product Marketing Manager MBA Intern
Meta (Facebook)
May 2019 - August 2019
PMM on the Partnerships- Feed Ads and Media Monetization Team Received full-time offer of employment
Karthik was also given offers to work at
WAYFAIR
Intel
The Hershey Company
Boeing
Education
The Wharton School (UPenn)
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Marketing and Operations Management, Strategic Management- Palmer Scholar (Top 5% of class), Marketing, Operations Management, Strategy
2018 - 2020
Academic: Palmer Scholar (Top 5% of MBA class); Teaching/Mentoring Activities: Consulting Club Co-President of Member Education; MBA Mentor, Organizational Behavior (with Professor Adam Grant); Teaching Assistant, Operations Strategy; William P. Lauder Leadership Fellow; Peer Career Mentorship Award (Sole Recipient) for class of 2020
McCombs School of Business (UT Austin)
Masters in Professional Accounting, Accounting, Bachelors in Business Administration, Bachelors in Plan II Honors, Accounting, Business, Liberal Arts
2009 - 2014
Coaching: President of Management Consulting Association, the premier consulting prep organization at UT, responsible for 80+% of MBB offers at UT every year Teaching: Teaching Assistant for MPA Managerial Accounting, Undergraduate Logic and Scientific Reasoning Course
Karthik was also personally admitted to
Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern)
University of Southern California
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
New York University
Texas A&M University - College Station
University of Texas at Austin
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Overall Rating
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Knowledge
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Value
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Responsiveness
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Supportiveness
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Karthik has helped clients get into these companies: