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Business Book Review: Lords of Strategy

Management Consulted

This week’s post is on Lords of Strategy - written by Walter Kiechel III , a journalist for 30 years, serving as an editor of Fortune and editorial director of Harvard Business Publishing. It was interesting to know that private equity firms are among the largest clients of the strategy consulting giants.

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Business Book Review: Boston Consulting Group On Strategy

Management Consulted

Boston Consulting Group on Strategy is a compilation of 82 valuable articles called Perspectives, 4 Harvard-reviewed business articles and 8 other articles written by various members of The Boston Consulting group between 1968 to 2005. WHY READ IT? QUICK OVERVIEW. INTERESTING BOOK INSIGHTS.

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(Re)Designing the HR Organization (Kates, Human Resource Planning, 2006)

Kates Kesler

Human Resource Planning, 2006. A fundamental principle of organization design is that a change in strategy requires a new set of capabilities and a realignment of the core elements of the organization (Galbraith, 2005). Many HR functions have gone through the process of transformation over the past decade.

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Consultant Ninja: When "hedging" is just speculation (part 2.

Consultant Ninja

Chris and JonM rightly chastised my previous post on Uniteds Fuel Hedging strategy. 2) United appears to have done minimal hedging through 2006 & 2007, only launching on a massive hedging action in 2008. I am a strategy consultant at. Thursday, March 5, 2009. When "hedging" is just speculation (part 2). Related Posts.

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Spain Levies Consumption.

MishTalk

or financial instrument, or to participate in any particular trading or investment strategy. December 2006 (29). November 2006 (20). October 2006 (17). September 2006 (20). August 2006 (37). July 2006 (27). June 2006 (26). May 2006 (21). April 2006 (21). March 2006 (24).

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Avalanche of City Debt.

MishTalk

or financial instrument, or to participate in any particular trading or investment strategy. December 2006 (29). November 2006 (20). October 2006 (17). September 2006 (20). August 2006 (37). July 2006 (27). June 2006 (26). May 2006 (21). April 2006 (21). March 2006 (24).

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Top 10 Consulting Firms in the Middle East

Management Consulted

Strategy& (PwC). Ask any consultant about the Middle East, and Booz (now Strategy&) will be the first name on their lips! A little later, Booz was acquired by PwC and rebranded as Strategy& Now that our little history lesson is complete, let’s continue. Here we go! McKinsey & Company. McKinsey at #4?