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Breaking Down Case Interview Frameworks – M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions)

Management Consulted

They often plan to operate it for a period of time; many choose to integrate the target with their current operations. If your client wants to integrate the target, is there potential for synergy, either by piggybacking one company’s strong areas onto the others to increase sales or by reducing operating costs?

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Your Company Needs a More-Radical Board of Directors

Harvard Business

First, directors face a real challenge in making sure that protection and alignment of key governance and risk management issues doesn’t crowd out equally important dialogue around strategy and operations. Obviously, no one wants to miss a short-term forecast or sales goal. I’m not against benchmarking and norming.

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The Global Tax Agreement – A Friend or Foe for the Big 4?

Tom Spencer

The first one seeks to implement a principle for taxation of corporate revenues based on location of sale rather than place of manufacturing. For example, when a shell company located in a low tax jurisdiction has no business operations other than being the formal owner of valuable intellectual property, and collecting royalty fees for it.

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You Don’t Have to Be a Software Company to Think Like One

Harvard Business

Disney has reinvented the customer experience by translating what it exclusively knows about park operations into software, substantively enhancing its customer value proposition. The software, called Personal Book , allows Nordstrom to promote sales, special appearances, and store events in a more targeted manner.

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Data Breaches Aren’t Just an IT Issue - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM VERIZON

Harvard Business

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.

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Why African Entrepreneurship Is Booming

Harvard Business

Today, we are seeing companies with core intellectual properties (IPs) emerging out of Africa. That opened opportunities for local companies like Lagos-based AppZone and Nairobi-based Craft Silicon , both fintech companies, to expand operations across the continent. They also partnered with local professionals.

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Cornerstone Research Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Founded in 1989 by three former consultants of the MAC Group (a boutique sales and distribution consulting firm), Cornerstone Research was established to be very different than the general management consulting firm it was birthed from; focused on unique clients, managing delicate client relationships, and offering specialized work.