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Lessons Learned from a German EMBA

Tom Spencer

In the fall of 2015, after spending two years in a small town in the Ruhr Valley starting to learn German (I will appreciate Mark Twain’s perspective on the sprache so much better going forward), I moved to Frankfurt to begin my Executive MBA at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management. Image Source: WallpaperUp ).

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The 4 Types of Organizational Politics

Harvard Business

It might also include political capital that arises from membership of or strong ties to a high status group such as the finance committee, a special task force, or the senior management team. Get benchmark information from surveys and specialist experts.

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Case Competition Tips & Tricks

Tom Spencer

Rather, a strong team will have competencies in diverse fields such as finance, strategic planning (SWOT, PEST, 5-Ps), public speaking, graphic design (creating a beautiful slide deck), and Excel (modeling things like valuations, sensitivity analysis, and graphs). You want to distinguish yourself from the crowd by thinking “outside the box”.

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The “Smart Society” of the Future Doesn’t Look Like Science Fiction

Harvard Business

To set an aspirational but realistic target, we created a benchmark that combines the best attributes of these advanced digital nations. Second, with the benchmark as a composite, no single nation achieves it and yet each of the five countries’ progress toward the ideal can be assessed in terms of performance against the benchmark.