MishTalk

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Industrial production shocked to the downside this morning with a drop of 0.6%, the most in 3.5 November was another weak month for the industrial economy, in part reflecting unusually warm temperatures that are driving down utility output. Industrial production came in at the Econoday low forecast, down a very sharp 0.6

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2017

When Doug took over as CEO of Campbell Soup Company in 2001, the company had just lost half its market value, sales were declining, and the organization was reeling from a series of layoffs. You’ll need to set expectations, identify practices to bring those expectations to life, and then measure and reinforce your civility initiative.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

During the past five years, industrial use of artificial intelligence (AI) has risen exponentially across industries. At the same time, front-runners across industries are partnering with technology companies to identify game-changing business solutions that can be achieved through AI.

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Insurance Insurance Industry Turnaround 28

Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 2, 2017

The benefit of bringing in specialist consultants is that they are likely to have experience solving similar problems and an understanding of industry best practice. Turnarounds. Restructuring is a niche service which requires specialized knowledge and industry experience. Catalyst for Change. Image: Pexels.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 2, 2015

Entering a New Market. A large Korean electronics company is thinking about entering the market for tablet computers. How should it price this product? Toyota has invented a car with incredible durability, it can be driven a thousand times further than cars currently on the market before needing to be serviced.

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Consulting Turnaround Case Interview Retail 60

Rod Burkert

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

If you have a group you want to educate and market to or a product or service you want to promote and sell to, webinars are the best way to reach them. They gushed about the quality of the work, the quick turnaround, and of course, the extraordinary pricing. In case you missed last week: Thinking of hosting your own webinars?

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

Compared to its peers, FTI Consulting is a youngster in the consulting industry. Luczak pioneered solutions at the intersection of law, communications and technology that affected not only the cases he was involved in, but the industry itself. Dispute, litigation and investigations services for construction industry.

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Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

APRIL 3, 2018

The paltry market for organic wine around the world belies the fact that over the past half century, countless organic winegrowers and vintners have dedicated great effort to creating a larger market for the category, without much success. First, the conventional wine industry saw it as a threat.

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Chemicals Retail Case Interview Turnaround 30

ConsultX

AUGUST 10, 2021

A one-stop turnaround plan, Conquer the Chaos lays out a complete path to make your business run smoothly and provide you with the freedom you desire. Gary spent years building his family business from a local wine shop into a national industry leader. But take heart! Conquer the Chaos shows you how.

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Consulting Small Business Video Ethics 52

Harvard Business

JULY 27, 2016

Steve Jobs had just returned to the company and the product line was a shamble of computers with confusing names, printers, scanners, and a curious, yet ill-conceived PDA called the Newton. ” Little did I know that over the next 10 years I’d be part of the biggest corporate turnaround in global history. Wesson Wang.

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freshminds

MARCH 5, 2018

Different industries need to test different skills and therefore depending on whether you’re applying to management consultancies, strategy consultancies or investment banking, your case study will be slightly different. Operational Cases: Operations Case, Increasing Sales, Reducing Costs, Improving the Bottom Line, Turnarounds.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The challenge is that you’re competing against every individual in your industry who wants to be a high performer. Functional experiences help make you great at something, i.e. marketing, supply chain, R&D. Find the leaders on the industry “best” lists (best chief marketing officer, chief information officer, etc.),

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Turnaround Interviews Development Management 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

A few outlier industries (notably pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and computers) prop up the sector’s aggregate performance; most others have experienced flat growth or outright declines in real GDP over the past two decades. kevin phillips/Getty Images. In some instances, the end results were firm closures and lost jobs.

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McKinsey Turnaround Pharmaceuticals Benchmarking 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2018

Many industries have had to downsize sales forces. There are several reasons for recent sales force job cuts: Shifting market dynamics are one cause, including changing customer needs, customer consolidation, new buying channels, and slowing market growth. sales reps following an industry-wide downsizing trend.

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MishTalk

MAY 14, 2015

China's apparent crude steel consumption fell for the first time in three decades in 2014, data from an industry association showed, a further indication of how the country's economic slowdown is hurting industrial demand. Reuters reports China's Annual Steel Consumption Drops for First Time in Three Decades. percent to a record 822.7

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

I dubbed it “contact marketing,” and found it to be a surprisingly effective marketing technique. What exactly is contact marketing? It’s a fusion of marketing and selling, employing specific campaigns to connect with specific C-level executives and top decision makers. Elizabeth Grace Saunders.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

A&M is an independent global professional services firm which provides leadership, problem-solving and value-creation services to companies across the industry spectrum. GIA provides strategic market intelligence and advisory services anywhere around the world. Founded in 1983, A&M operates in 38 cities worldwide. Causeway Bay.

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Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2016

This company, which stretched into all sorts of industries and markets, offering numerous strategic challenges, should have been an ideal training ground for executives. After earning a degree in industrial engineering, he joined Techint, a multinational conglomerate with headquarters in Milan. You and Your Team Series.

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Turnaround Engineering Leadership Case Interview 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Volvo’s turnaround over the last decade offers a great example. Its cars didn’t match up well with those of top luxury brands like Mercedes, BMW, and Audi, yet the company lacked the capacity to compete with mass-market leaders like Toyota and GM. For years, Volvo was a brand stuck between a rock and a hard place.

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Talent Engineering Case Interview Turnaround 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

The private equity industry has a clear understanding of the importance of the medium term. The beauty of the PE industry model is that it does not succumb to the travails of the short term or the dreams of the future. A key feature of the turnaround, led by CEO Marcel Telles, was avoiding a hopelessly long-term view.

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Turnaround Report Company Construction 29

Confessions of a Consultant

APRIL 30, 2017

“I just need to get a handle on this new industry” Believe it or not, when I was younger I was interested in keeping fit (I still have the body of a 32 year old obese man). Within Colgate-Palmolive Doug Meyer had steadily moved through a classic marketing career and was approached about the job. He now faced a dilemma.

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Management Pharmaceuticals Groups Turnaround 40

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. The team then turned to the product line.

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Company How To Turnaround Engineering 28

Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2016

But get it just right and your sales efforts can drive productivity and growth. By looking at detailed sales data from 40 companies in technology-related industries, we have identified guidelines for the optimal amount and type of sales support and management. First, support frees up frontline sales employees to be more productive.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

Box 3: Generate breakthrough ideas and convert them into new products and businesses. Our industry does not respect tradition—it only respects innovation.” ” He continued, “let’s not launch Product X version 2 and instead focus all our efforts on Product Y.”

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 9, 2016

In phase one (buy and sell), PE investors looked for the equivalent of a “fixer-upper house” — a dilapidated company in a good industry that could be purchased at a discount and, after the business equivalent of some fresh paint and new appliances, resold for a profit. Large private equity firms (e.g.,

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Talent Real Estate Financial Operations 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

A turnaround subsequently lowered strategic stress to a productive level by discontinuing many of their seemingly unrelated projects, re-focusing on their core business, as well as streamlining operational processes that improved coordination activities. Strategic Sweet Spot (just the right amount of strategic stress).

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 16, 2016

No one who listens to Alan Mulally describe Ford’s remarkable turnaround escapes his rendition of One Ford , One Team , and Working Together. She pushed product managers to present enhancements in UX, not just elevating customer satisfaction scores. “Those are more than just words,” he passionately declared.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2016

Let’s look at how to do this by analyzing the resume and LinkedIn profile of a startup marketing executive. Here’s one of his bullet points: “Multi-year brand awareness-building and marketing campaigns contributed to 23X customer acquisition and >90% YOY customer retention.” ” Résumé Story.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In 2011 Avaya had a major likability problem, and the according market performance you would expect. Too often, when Avaya delivered tailor-designed products and services for customers, the customer was not satisfied. The key to this transformation was an innovation approach common in the software industry: agile invention methodology.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

What’s more, the demand for rapid growth often comes with a push from investors to enter new markets or ramp up product innovation. CEOs need to know how a change in strategy (a new target market, say, or a new product) will affect manufacturing, marketing, selling, servicing, and other processes.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Similar to the advance of “standardized process” in the early 20th century, digital is not just the new product to offer our customers (e.g., Voser was impatient for a new experience which attracted him to ABB and there he learned a whole new level of turnaround leadership. ” Let’s go back to the IBM example.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

You’re provided a history of all pricing changes from all companies in the industry (including your client). Your objective is to design a factory production line that includes three areas: raw material receiving, processing, and finishing. How do you create the greatest stock market value while taking the least risk?

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Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2016

Doug identified “Inspiring Trust” as his number one mission in his 10-year turnaround of Campbell Soup Company, where his efforts resulted in cumulative shareholder returns in the top tier of the global food industry, and among the highest measured employee engagement levels in the Fortune 500, particularly with his leadership team.

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants

JANUARY 29, 2010

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