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Management Consulting versus Investment Banking

Management Consulted

Hard skills: 1) Microsoft Powerpoint – you will (and have to) become a master at this, and will eventually have the ability to produce presentations quickly, concisely, and meaningfully. This expertise may be as broad as “operations turnaround” and as specific as “benchmarking for insurance companies.”

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Saving RadioShack

Tom Spencer

When the business landscape changes, how can you turnaround a failing company? Assuming this leads to successful refinancing, what should the strategy be to turnaround and save this iconic company? When faced with a broad turnaround question, it is important to ask a variety of questions to determine the source of the problem.

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Consultant Ninja: Finally, two counter-cyclical markets: Management.

Consultant Ninja

The other sector Im long on is turnaround consulting: 10-13-08. 2010-Present: Off the road 2009 Stats: Airline Miles: 24,902 Nights away from home: 73 (of 216: 34% of nights) AMEX Charges: $21,220 2008 Stats: Airline miles: 87,589 Nights away from home: 159 (of 365: 43.6% Presentation Zen. bankruptcy Sept. 15 in New York.

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How to Give Negative Feedback Over Email

Harvard Business

You don’t have to go overboard, it could be something as simple as: Thanks for the quick turnaround on this! For example, you might say: This presentation is headed in the right direction, and if we can pare it down to 10 slides we’ll be in great shape. As opposed to: This presentation is way too long.

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Don’t do everything yourself

Jacq Hackett Consulting

For me that’s preparing PowerPoint presentations – I can do it, but I really shouldn’t because I do a mediocre job and it takes me forever. PowerPoint presentations. It’s quick – the turnaround time on jobs is impressive. Firstly, you should outsource when you have tasks that you’re just not good at. What tasks to outsource?

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Don’t do everything yourself

Jacq Hackett Consulting

For me that’s preparing PowerPoint presentations – I can do it, but I really shouldn’t because I do a mediocre job and it takes me forever. PowerPoint presentations. It’s quick – the turnaround time on jobs is impressive. Firstly, you should outsource when you have tasks that you’re just not good at. What tasks to outsource?

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How to Have a Good Debate in a Meeting

Harvard Business

When I was teaching the American Express turnaround case at HBS, Harvey Golub, then the company’s CEO, came to class. Take the contrarian view. He explained that he would often take the contrarian view: If the meeting was about raising the price for a service, he would show up and ask whether they should lower the price.

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