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Management Consulting versus Investment Banking

Management Consulted

This expertise may be as broad as “operations turnaround” and as specific as “benchmarking for insurance companies.” Corollary to point #4 , this is influenced by your firm’s alumni and also the following: -the different recruiters/headhunters that reach out to you. 2) Heavy team interaction.

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AlixPartners Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

AlixPartners is an international business advisory firm based in Southfield, MI known for its work in corporate turnarounds, bankruptcy assignments and restructuring. Generally regarded as turnaround market leaders, AlixPartners is doing a killer job at taking up more room in the consulting space by strategically hiring a plethora of gurus.

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How to Manage a More Experienced Direct Report

CaseInterview.com

It means you recruited well. That will increase their turnaround time for the work orders in their group by 70%. You don’t need to understand technology, law, accounting, or medicine to grasp the concept that for $200,000 you can buy a 70% faster turnaround time in the department in question. This is a tradeoff decision.

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

FTI expanded into investigation and research capabilities as well as turnaround, restructuring, bankruptcy and forensic accounting with the moves. Restructuring/Turnaround Services. FTI’s Summer Internship program has met with great success for the company and is fast becoming their main source for full-time recruitment.

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Seabury Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Founded in 1995 by former Bain consultants and headquartered in New York City, they focus on developing airline strategy and implementing major operational turnaround. INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. They recruit a lot of their staff that way. In fact, in terms of firms we profile, they are truly one of the new kids on the block.

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7 Factors of Great Office Design

Harvard Business

The developer teams realized that they were more interactive than they initially imagined, but also needed quiet space to churn out quick turnaround projects. After undergoing a rapid visioning exercise using the seven attributes to define and differentiate the different work modes for each of their teams, several surprises emerged.

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Outsider CEOs Are on the Rise at the World’s Biggest Companies

Harvard Business

Outsiders, in effect, have become more of an intentional leadership choice than a stereotypical hire in a turnaround or crisis situation. That helps explain why 38% of incoming CEOs in the telecommunications industry during the previous four years were recruited from outside the company. one of the authors of the study.

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