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Markovitz Consulting

The full-size paper drinking cups were replaced with tiny two-ounce cups by an over-eager executive in the finance department looking to cut costs. At NUMMI, that meant the tools, the training, and the managerial support that was so badly lacking in the old GM organization. In fact, the only people let go were from management ranks.)

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7 Critical Success Factors for Project Based Firms to Consider in 2024

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The Power of Unity Firms need real-time insights into the entire business – finance, project accounting, sales, everything – otherwise multiple versions of the truth will start showing up in budgets, estimates, and forecasts. Do you provide hands-on skills training? What kind of impact has that training had on client outcomes?

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Management Consulting versus Investment Banking

Management Consulted

The cons of investment banking – the long hours, the repetitive and unengaging nature of the work, the lack of non-finance exit opportunities – mattered far more to me than a 6-figure salary. Call me biased, but I received the best years of business training possible in my time at McKinsey. 3 SKILL DEVELOPMENT.

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

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FTI expanded into investigation and research capabilities as well as turnaround, restructuring, bankruptcy and forensic accounting with the moves. Corporate Finance/Restructuring. Restructuring/Turnaround Services. Honored with Seven M&A Advisor Turnaround Awards. They aim to help companies protect enterprise value.

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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. Then, underneath three of these sub-subsidiaries are, you guessed it, more subsidiaries, such as Seabury Airline Planning Group LLC and Seabury Maritime Corporate Finance LLC.

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Coronavirus: Analysis, Conclusions & Takeaways

CaseInterview.com

When I’m not teaching about case interviews and working with clients, I volunteer and train as an emergency medical responder. I’m trained for urban search and rescue, wilderness search and rescue, emergency medical response, basic life support, and mass casualty events.] I’ve never been terrified in my life before.

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MC Coach Interview: My First Year at McKinsey

Management Consulted

I majored in accounting, finance and supply chain management at a college in the state (Miami of Ohio). I was going down the route of finance, asset management, investment banking, or something like that. I really didn’t know what to expect on my first day, even after I went through the on-boarding and training process.

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