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Why CEO’s Hire Consultants and Coaches: The REAL Value They Bring with Brad Rex

Consulting Matters

He applied for a financial manager job at Disney and was one of 1400 candidates. Brad had an unconventional start to his career after meeting his boss's boss while studying finance at college. He talks about his exciting career journey, which started at the Naval Academy, then to British Petroleum, and finally to Disney.

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What 20 Years as a Remote Organization Has Taught Us About Managing Remote Teams

Harvard Business

Clarke painted a picture of how computers would change our way of life by the year 2001. Once clear, consistent outcomes are set, management conversations shift from exercises in delegation to problem-solving sessions. In his 1974 interview with ABC News , science fiction author Arthur C.

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Research: Business School Really Does Influence How Students Make Decisions Later On

Harvard Business

Through his academic research and teaching at HBS, Jensen promulgated a new financial orthodoxy that corporate managers should avoid diversification and instead focus on the firm’s core competencies. This changed after Peter Dolan (Dartmouth, 1980) took the helm in 2001.

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Why We Shouldn’t Worry About the Declining Number of Public Companies

Harvard Business

firms gravitate towards digital strategies, firms have less need for elaborate finance, marketing, production, distribution, accounting, and human resource departments. Chief finance officers increasingly question the ability of a day trader to value a digital company. Furthermore, as production shifts to Asia and more and more U.S.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. The returns to society and the overall economy were equally impressive.

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What GE’s Board Could Have Done Differently

Harvard Business

During Jeff Immelt’s tenure as CEO of General Electric, from 2001 until 2017, the company’s stock price fell by over 30%, a decline of roughly $150 billion in shareholder value. In my view, however, the structure and processes of the GE board were poorly designed for effectively overseeing Immelt and his management team.

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Consultant Ninja: Friedman Billings Ramsey and Tom Peters.

Consultant Ninja

Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. It wasnt until 2001 that he admitted that he made up most of the data in the book. Management Consulting. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Consultant Ninja. The ANALyst.