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

Tom Spencer

Many management consultants hardly complete two or three years in their jobs before they realize that there’s more to life than consulting. Interviews. Helping the organization to identify and manage strategic uncertainty. In terms of the interview process it followed the following steps: HR interview (fit).

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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business

Nikon, the legendary Japanese camera maker, provides a textbook study in how smart managers can work with strategic investors to transform a struggling business. Then a new CFO joined the company: Masashi Oka, a financial industry veteran who had played a key role in transforming Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group-owned Union Bank in the US.

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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business

Since then, we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks who follow technology companies. So, investors, and therefore managers, might be adjusting their approach to risk accordingly. Traditional companies therefore rely on two strategies.

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Business Valuation Lessons From ESOPs

Martinka Consulting

One of my roles was being on the team interviewing the critical (and very expensive) ESOP advisors. In the Discounted Future Cash Flow method profits are projected (same as the first issue) and discounted back to a present value. For reference, a check of major bank PE ratios shows they are at about 15). Conclusion.

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Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation?

MishTalk

With little or no bank lending growth, decelerating wage growth, and trend growth of real GDP per capita at 0% to negative implies the 3- and 5-year change rates of US M2+ will decelerate from 2-3% to 0-1% in the next 5-6 years as occurred during the early to late 00s in Japan. Balanced Budget Ammendment Sign the Balanced Budget Petition.

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A Blueprint for Digital Companies’ Financial Reporting

Harvard Business

In a follow up HBR article , we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks and distilled seven key insights from those discussions. More important, investors would be better off getting managers’ take on those numbers than not having them at all.

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"Stock Market Is Overvalued By 100%" Says John Hussman in Chris Martenson Interview; Financial Repression Revisited

MishTalk

Guest Post from Peak Prosperity In an exclusive interview of John Hussman by Peak Prosperity''s Chris Martenson, Hussman says Stock Market Is Overvalued By 100%. His regular weekly market commentary is widely regarded as one of the best-researched, best-articulated publications available to money managers.