Tom Spencer

AUGUST 15, 2013

Your employer operates with the express aim of benefiting members of the community and reinvests all profits to further its social aims. Imagine waking up in a world where you feel positive and motivated about going to work, knowing that your work provides value to customers in a way that is sustainable and responsible.

Enterprise 112

Enterprise Healthcare Ethics Construction 112

Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2017

It’s been more than 25 years since Bill Gates dismissed retail banks as “dinosaurs,” but the statement may be as true today as it was then. Other sectors of retail lending have not fared much better. This amounts to putting a toe in the water, while keeping current operations relatively separate and pristine.

Banking 133

Banking Small Business Oliver Wyman Retail 133

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Recognizing client’s needs for help managing IT operations and resources, IBM Vice President Robert M. During this same year, IBM introduced Business Recovery Services as a formal business offering for customers, enabling them to continue operations in the event of an unplanned outage or disaster. Finance Risk.

IBM GBS 203

IBM GBS Interviews Consulting Case Interview 203

Tom Spencer

JUNE 30, 2023

The financial services industry comprises firms that operate across a range of sectors: Asset & Wealth Management, Banking & Capital Markets, and Insurance. Distribution Channels The wealth management landscape consists of a range of distribution channels, ranging from high touch (i.e.,

Banking 78

Banking Management Real Estate Insurance 78

Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2017

So four years ago, when I was CEO of GE Capital Retail Finance and tapped to lead a mega change initiative — splitting off our unit into a new, publicly traded company, Synchrony Financial — I’ll admit I viewed it as a huge challenge. The first thing we did was engage in ongoing listening sessions.

Management 130

Management Change Management Culture Leadership 130

Management Consulted

JANUARY 20, 2014

However, today BearingPoint is emerging as a player in the operations and technology scene, especially in Europe, and has re-established an impressive growth trajectory. Now, BearingPoint is operated as a Netherlands-based partnership which consisted of 120 partners in 14 countries throughout Europe. Supply Chain & Operations.

BearingPoint 139

BearingPoint Interviews Oliver Wyman Capgemini 139

Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2018

In this case let’s make the business Dan Murphy’s, Australia’s largest liquor retailer with a national footprint. A major cause of this is that managers within these teams approach the task from their own functional-management view, e.g. finance, HR, marketing, operations.

System 134

System Strategy Strategy Strategy& 134

Brimstone Consulting

MARCH 12, 2020

Brimstone worked side-by-side with an early-stage consumer goods organization to pursue its vision, build a strategic plan, develop roles and operating mechanisms, and to drive sustainable growth at a challenging inflection point. Revenue increased by 34 times. During the engagement, the organization increased revenue by 34 times.

Case Study 53

Case Study Case Studies Cash Flow Retail 53

Harvard Business

JULY 17, 2017

It’s far from the only case of a failure to embrace a more digital approach; the larger shift to digital is changing the way every industry operates. The current innovation model in the finance sector is designed to generate the highest possible short-term returns. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide.

Financial 134

Financial Industry Banking Company 134

Harvard Business

APRIL 11, 2017

What’s our role in the value chain: facilitator, fleet operator, driverless “driver” supplier (versus vehicle manufacturer)? How can we finance fleets through leasing and/or mobility securitization? What will our retail footprint be? Retail and consumer business. Automotive OEMs.

Automotive 100

Automotive Transportation Energy Retail 100

Harvard Business

AUGUST 5, 2016

Under this financing structure, the company contracts to buy kilowatts, not the turbines and panels. So the PPA terms that retailers and tech companies sign have not worked for the heavy guys. They had framing conversations with the CEO and CFO early on to discuss any financial or operational challenges. Get early buy-in.

Energy 70

Energy Industry Finance Operations 70

Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2017

These truck drivers, misclassified as independent owner-operators, were forced by companies whom they worked to purchase new vehicles to comply with more stringent emission restrictions. Lacking capital, truckers purchased new vehicles through financing provided by these very same trucking companies.

Case Interview 134

Case Interview Government Insurance Insurance 134

CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

GameStop is a business that sells video games via physical retail stores, typically located in shopping malls in the United States. Their reasoning was that nobody buys games in stores anymore (just like nobody buys music on CDs in retail stores or buys movies on Blu-ray Discs from retail stores). I agree with this assessment.

Retail 105

Retail Case Interview Media Company 105

Management Consulted

JULY 2, 2017

BCG’s clients typically include many of the world’s 500 largest companies – BCG Boston is no exception, but in this office the focus is on healthcare, financial services, industrial goods, retail, and high tech. If these areas are of interest to you, this will be a great place to learn and grow in your career.

Oliver Wyman 72

Oliver Wyman Mercer Consulting Deloitte 72

CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

In contrast, my favorite boardroom belonged to a clothing retail chain in California during the Great Recession of 2008. If you know finance, especially the finance of retail businesses, that’s nearly impossible. I had never heard of a retail business with such high profit margins. but was still profitable!

Case Interview 59

Case Interview Retail Finance Conference 59

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The bank has since fired 5,300 employees for the illegal behavior and eliminated retail bank sales goals entirely. Instead, he called this an operations and compliance issue, perhaps not realizing that both of those functions influence corporate culture. Even now, Stumpf adamantly refuses to hear criticism of the bank’s culture.

Leadership 128

Leadership Banking Ethics Culture 128

Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Birthed in 2004 as a spin-off of Indian tech outsourcing behemoth Infosys Technologies, Infosys Consulting is quickly climbing the charts as an industry leader in IT Operations and Strategy consulting. IT Operations. Supply Chain and Operations Processes. Finance and Controlling Processes. SAP Operational Excellence.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Consulting Deloitte 100

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Who at your company will be put in charge of turning buildings operations from a cost center to a revenue center? And many companies also face additional energy-related costs from their commercial vehicles, of which there are over 12 million in operation in the U.S. Operational Improvements. Take lighting, for example.

Energy 72

Energy Data Resources Operations 72

Tom Spencer

JULY 22, 2013

Kearney’s services include strategy, innovation, sales & marketing, operations, strategic IT, and procurement. In 2008, Booz separated its operations from the U.S. Booz has experience across a broad range of industries including high technology, finance, and consumer products. Booz & Company. Website: booz.com.

Oliver Wyman 83

Oliver Wyman Strategy Strategy& Strategy 83

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Barker had licensing deals with sports leagues to make merchandise with their logos and partnered with large brands to produce it for retail markets, and when Lance took the company over, its revenues were about £100 million. The team wasn’t perfect, but it was still operating at a pretty high level. He needed to fix this.

Case Study 132

Case Study Case Studies Study Sales 132

Harvard Business

APRIL 28, 2016

And you probably won’t even know you’ve been affected until it’s too late to prevent significant damage to your company’s finances, operations, and reputation. Denial of service (DoS) attacks : Attacks that overwhelm an organization with malicious traffic, disrupting normal operations.

Data 70

Data Intellectual Property Industry System 70

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

This seemingly banal transaction speaks volumes to the power of how established retail has pervaded our everyday experience in the United States. Customers have myriad channels to discover new products and shop at outdoor gear retailers to explore, evaluate, and choose what they need. I am the cofounder and CEO of BioLite.

Sales 70

Sales Marketing Development Retail 70

Tom Spencer

JUNE 1, 2019

Management consulting is a professional service offered to organisations which aims to help internal management improve operating performance. The management consulting value chain encompasses strategy (idea origination, analysis and presentation of findings), implementation, operations and maintenance/feedback. Image: Pexels.

Consulting 60

Consulting Management Oliver Wyman Deloitte 60

Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

Historically, commercial banking and investment banking functions have been separated by law – these restrictions have since been repealed and larger banks tend to take on capital markets operations due to the complimentary nature of the businesses. In secondary markets, the sales & trading function operates as a market maker.

Banking 12

Banking Industry Balance Sheet Retail 12

Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

As such, I’ve increasingly seen case interviews being used to recruit for corporate strategy roles in all sectors and business operation (“BizOps”) roles at startups. If you are applying to retail, you will have a retail case. Now, case interviews for non-consulting industries tend to really intimidate candidates.

Case Interview 78

Case Interview Interviews Consulting Case Study 78

Harvard Business

AUGUST 2, 2017

For example, by designing a new cloud-based customer service platform, within nine months a power company could go head-to-head with an internet service provider that had started to sell electricity alongside Wi-Fi services and cheaply financed cars. Since cloud-based systems are modular and scalable, they are fundamentally easier to manage.

Agile 71

Agile System Retail Data 71

Management Consulted

MAY 21, 2015

T-Mobile, an American operating entity of a German company, is the smallest big player in U.S. Power and Associates, a global marketing-information-services firm, as the highest in retail store satisfaction amongst its competitors consecutively for the the past four years and also the highest for customer care two years consecutively.

Wireless 100

Wireless Culture Telecommunications Interviews 100

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Even before announcing his new cabinet, Mnangagwa installed a key reformist, Patrick Chinamasa, as acting finance minister, tasked with tackling corruption and re-engaging with international institutions to unlock funds to ease liquidity shortages. An influx of capital could also result in a revival in the formal retail sector (e.g.,

Government 70

Government Banking System Finance 70

Tom Spencer

MAY 15, 2014

Services include Strategy Development, Operational Improvement, and Transaction Support. Momentum’s vision is to become the leading independent consultancy in Australia providing the highest quality consulting services which integrate three key elements of organisational change: strategy, operations and people. Port Jackson Partners.

Oliver Wyman 76

Oliver Wyman Strategy Strategy& Strategy 76

Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

Compared to professions like engineering or business disciplines like Finance or Operations, the concept of a dedicated salesperson is relatively recent. Now, however, students’ college and pre-MBA experience is more likely to be in a finance area or perhaps in coding. Each group has its own operating procedures.

Sales 70

Sales Education Training Training 70

Tom Spencer

AUGUST 30, 2024

Open banking enables increased competition and innovation in retail payments and the financial services industry because it lowers barriers to entry. This could also include dynamically priced small business loans that are rapidly approved and available to borrowers without collateral or a long credit history.

Banking 88

Banking Financial Data Industry 88

Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

Some companies that made the list were obvious choices; for example, the biggest online retailer now gets most of its profit from cloud services (Amazon). While Amazon has expanded its core retailing platform into new categories, such as food and streaming content, in parallel it has built the world’s largest cloud computing enterprise.

Methodologies 134

Methodologies Culture Company Metrics 134

Harvard Business

JANUARY 23, 2018

For example, the California Data Collaborative is a data pooling effort among a coalition of water utilities, cities, and water retailers to create an integrated, California-wide platform to provide accurate technical analysis and better inform water policy and operational decision making.

Data 118

Data Company Media Policies 118

BCG

DECEMBER 7, 2016

The list of companies that have already been hacked, attacked, and breached—suffering business interruptions and intellectual-property losses and exposing their customers to identity theft—reads like a who’s who of the retail, tech, telecom, manufacturing, and financial services industries, among others.

Intellectual Property 40

Intellectual Property Company Retail Finance 40

Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2016

manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers, according to a leading technology industry analyst. Each of the potential business benefits of 3D printing carries tax implications that could alter the equation for any anticipated operating efficiency or return on investment. Are there operations you would shed? Threat analysis.

Intellectual Property 70

Intellectual Property Automotive Analysis Pharmaceuticals 70

Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Let’s start with financing the deal. Meanwhile, because digital targets tend to be expensive, acquirers are limited in their ability to use stock to finance a deal. Sponsored by DXC Technology.

Company 71

Company Finance Advertising Tools 71

CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

GameStop is a business that sells video games via physical retail stores, typically located in shopping malls in the United States. Their reasoning was that nobody buys games in stores anymore (just like nobody buys music on CDs in retail stores or buys movies on Blu-ray Discs from retail stores). I agree with this assessment.

Retail 81

Retail Case Interview Media Company 81