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Leading Management Principles of the World’s Top Shipbuilders

Epicflow

Read on: Shipbuilding Trends in 2018 and How Project Managers Can Adapt Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) is the only international company capable of integrated production of not only ships but also engines, high-performance turbines, and marine machinery. billion thanks to concentrating on MHI’s key competencies.

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business

The constantly fluctuating number of barrels of crude available from nimble shale operations is a primary driver, but so are the long-term impact of increased fuel efficiency and the fits and starts of the global transition away from fossil fuels on world demand. .—while The soaring U.S.

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Stop Focusing on Profitability and Go for Growth

Harvard Business

The global financial crisis prompted many companies to pull in their horns, hoard cash, trim costs, and take a wary view of large investments. Bain & Company’s Macro Trends Group carefully analyzed the global balance sheet and found that the world is awash in money. times global GDP) to more than $600 trillion (9.5

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Considerations for Starting your Consulting Career at a Boutique Firm

Tom Spencer

For our purposes, let’s identify a boutique firm as one that has less than 100 consultants (emphasis on ‘consultants’ and not staff) and operates from at most only a handful of offices (even if those offices are in multiple countries). Notable Considerations. Compensation. There is also much to be said about other types of compensation (e.g.

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Transitioning from Management Consulting to Corporate Strategy/M&A – the Interview Process

Tom Spencer

BizOps / Strategy & Operations at tech firms. According to the Ivey Business Journal it has two parts: Improving the competitive strategies of operating units by capturing inter-divisional synergies; and. trends, competitor landscape). BizOps / Strategy & Operations at Tech firms. Corporate development.

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A Blueprint for Digital Companies’ Financial Reporting

Harvard Business

The level and trend of a company’s top-line metric is an advance indicator of the success of its business model. Investors, therefore, look not just for reported revenues but for drivers behind the revenues, especially because digital companies’ operating activities often differ from their revenue-generating activities.

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Hussman's Open Letter to the Fed; The Problem with Bubbles; Textbook Pre-Crash Bubble; Reflections on Not Chasing Bubbles; Integrity vs. Respect

MishTalk

When markets become parabolic, the people who exist within them are trend followers, because the guys who are qualitative have got taken out. This environment only makes sense through the prism of trends." Trend if Your Friend Until It Changes Hendry is now looking for ‘auto-correlations'' that benefit from this feedback loop. "