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Alvarez & Marsal Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

This Firm Profile started as an email from Sean, asking if we could write on Alvarez & Marsal, “The Turnaround Guys”. The firm’s first turnaround client was the household brand, Timex Corporation. Turnaround and Restructuring. ALVAREZ & MARSAL CULTURE. ALVAREZ & MARSAL KEY STATS. Practice Areas. Tax Advisory.

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

FTI CONSULTING INTERVIEWS & CULTURE. FTI expanded into investigation and research capabilities as well as turnaround, restructuring, bankruptcy and forensic accounting with the moves. Restructuring/Turnaround Services. Energy & Utilities. FTI CONSULTING CULTURE. FTI CONSULTING ORGANIZATION. Private Equity.

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Case Study: Can You Fix a Toxic Culture Without Firing People?

Harvard Business

She’d gone to Arkansas to review operational plans and financial projections for the rest of the year with the team on the ground. But culturally, it might be time for a purge,” Cam continued. It’s like we’re surgeons who have a patient bleeding out on the operating table. Or pull out our scalpels?”

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Leaders Who Get Change Right Know How to Listen

Harvard Business

What she learned informed her strategy for the turnaround, which she then communicated through a series of town halls, roundtables, and memos. Energy returned.” ” And she restored the company’s profitability — the turnaround was a success. “The response was overwhelming,” Mulcahy said.

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How Companies Escape the Traps of the Past

Harvard Business

And yet without Box 2, organizations don’t truly transform; they persist in limiting ways of operating. One effective way is to work on culture. Box 2 muscle requires a culture where honest Box 2 questions are encouraged. Make symbolic bets to remind people that the Box 2 culture is here to stay.

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7 Factors of Great Office Design

Harvard Business

An office environment reflects and reinforces a business’s core values, through the placement of different teams and functions and design elements that reflect culture, brand, and values. The New York headquarters housed over a third of its workforce, including developers, the sales team, operations, and leadership.

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We Interviewed 57 Female CEOs to Find Out How More Women Can Get to the Top

Harvard Business

” With women apparently expending more energy to achieve the same result, the longer runway gives them fewer years to have an impact in the top job. Ambitious women may be hesitant to self-promote, driven more by a sense of purpose and a desire to contribute value and shape culture.