Tom Spencer

JULY 2, 2015

Our client is a mid-sized retail bank in Kazakhstan. The bank has achieved sustained revenue growth over the last two years but its profits have consistently declined. Turnarounds. A large American beverage company acquired a fruit juice company for $350 million five years ago with the goal to increase revenues tenfold.

Consulting 60

Consulting Turnaround Case Interview Retail 60

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

For example, when James Wolfensohn first became president of the World Bank, in 1995, he went on fact-finding trips to developing countries to understand the kinds of projects that the bank was doing. As I’ve written previously, deference to authority is deeply engrained in most societies.

How To 70

How To Banking Turnaround Meeting 70

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

How Banks Are Capitalizing on a New Wave of Big Data and Analytics. Improved operational efficiency: AI-based needs analysis systems allow insurers to not only improve their probability of lead-to-quote conversion but also re­duce turnaround time conversions.

Insurance 71

Insurance Insurance Industry Turnaround 71

Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Seabury Group is a global advisory and investment management group providing investment banking, restructuring, management consulting, IT development, and human capital advisory services. Value Partners has turnaround and change management expertise working with industrial and service multinationals. Address: Seabury Group.

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Oliver Wyman Strategy Strategy Strategy& 107

freshminds

MARCH 5, 2018

Different industries need to test different skills and therefore depending on whether you’re applying to management consultancies, strategy consultancies or investment banking, your case study will be slightly different. Investment Banking : tend to use a very different case study compared to consultancies.

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Case Studies Case Study Study Case Interview 53

Management Consulted

MARCH 29, 2015

I was going down the route of finance, asset management, investment banking, or something like that. One of the guys does mostly investment banking, and he gave me a tough insurance case. It’s rapid deadlines and very quick turnarounds. I started researching management consulting online, and it really seemed up my alley.

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McKinsey Interviews Case Interview Consulting 100

Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2016

Just look at the leaders of ANZ, the global banking group headquartered in Melbourne. The fact is that giving people bigger jobs with fancier titles and larger salaries won’t make them better. More complex assignments will.

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Turnaround Leadership Engineering Case Interview 70

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. Kaufmann proceeded to engineer a turnaround of the company by focusing on the top end of the market.

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Company How To Turnaround Engineering 70

Martinka Consulting

JANUARY 8, 2022

You will sign a personal guarantee if you’re using a bank and probably if it’s seller financing if the seller has good lawyers. It will not be 100% financed by the bank and the seller; you will have skin in the game. If you want to control the deal look for a turnaround business and roll the dice. Show growth.

Banking 40

Banking Turnaround Finance Financial 40

Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2017

Turnaround leaders pick up the pieces and make things right when a business or function is failing to perform. Another fixer, a banking CFO, upped her organization’s analytics capability at a time when it was losing customers to online competitors.

How To 70

How To Culture Turnaround Talent 70

Martinka Consulting

JULY 6, 2015

Banks have ratios, guidelines, and regulators. This means it’s non-bank money and I’m sure the interest rates are a lot higher than the 5% +/- rates on deals on small businesses. Sears was in the headlines because they are running out of cash as their turnaround is failing. So who lends on deals like this?

Small Business 40

Small Business Turnaround Sales Guidelines 40

Martinka Consulting

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

German business-chamber association DIHK says 73% of senior managers, “haven’t assembled the basic documents needed for a handover, such as power of attorney, supplier and client information, bank-access data or a will.” ” If you think 73% is high, think again.

Small Business 40

Small Business Turnaround Journal Sales 40

MishTalk

APRIL 7, 2015

This is quite a turnaround for Spain. In the absence of central bank monetary foolishness, negative interest rates cannot happen. Interest rates are negative because central banks unleashed more money than anyone wants to borrow. On top of that, the Swiss National Bank explicitly set deposit rates negative.

Banking 28

Banking Turnaround Insurance Insurance 28

1 to 1

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The pandemic proved that work-from-home (WFH) customer support is effective, nimble, secure, and won’t break the bank. With post-pandemic online shopping increasing and deals starting earlier and running longer, consistent quality and service levels are essential to keep operations running smoothly.

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Retail Strategy Strategy Strategy& 26

MishTalk

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

The trigger for the turnaround was the announcement by Mario Draghi, that the European Central Bank (ECB) would be ready as a buyer of last resort. The euro crisis was a sudden become known indebtedness in Greece triggered. One country after another followed. And then it was suddenly over.

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Government Turnaround Policies Construction 68

MishTalk

APRIL 1, 2015

banks issuing 2-year CDs and lending money for 15-year mortgages), bank''s ability to lend money into existence, and deposit insurance. Fractional reserve lending allows banks to lend out a near infinite amount of credit with essentially no backing. And banks are not required to hold any reserves on savings accounts at all.

Insurance 28

Insurance Insurance Banking Government 28

The Crazy Lives of Consultants

JANUARY 29, 2010

Not solitary do we have the unexcelled prices but our turnaround heyday for your Xrumer posting is wonderful fast. In fact all I can remember is a very quick scene from it where a man goes to an ATM to take some money out and when he receives his bank balance finds it in the millions.

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Consulting Airlines Hotels Sales 40