Martinka Consulting

JANUARY 8, 2022

It surprised me when I saw that in less than a week my podcast on business buy sell facts was one of the most popular educational episodes we have. FYI, the following are for buyers and sellers of small and midsized businesses. Business buyers. If you want to control the deal look for a turnaround business and roll the dice.

Banking 40

Banking Turnaround Finance Financial 40

Management Consulted

JULY 1, 2012

We really talk specifics , from the steps you take to turn a cold call into a warm call , to dealing with awkward/unhelpful alumni. Your asset file consists of the names of anyone and everyone who can help you – either directly or indirectly – get a job in management consulting. Click here for the Groups Directory.

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Consulting Bain Recruiting Recruitment 179

Comatch

JANUARY 19, 2022

With such valuable resources just a few clicks away, it’s understandable that business leaders are increasingly open to outsourced expertise. Quick thinking (and adaptability) – Consultants often state that they were hired to solve one business challenge, only to end up in the middle of totally different projects.

Consulting 52

Consulting Resumes Case Interview Industry 52

Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 20, 2021

And with stories of how traditional companies like Fidelity Investments, Walmart, and B2W have adopted them, he offers a practical toolbox for applying them to your business, starting today. In real life, we lean in, uncross our arms, smile, nod and make eye contact to show we listen and care. Writing clearly is the new empathy.

Leadership 63

Leadership Conference Research Case Interview 63

Martinka Consulting

MARCH 8, 2019

I’ve seen a lot of business owners, business buyers, wannabes, employees; meaning people of all types. I’ve concluded there are five types, whether they’re business buyers, owners/sellers, or employees. The business buyer in this category probably has significant assets but wants more. Sell more, make more.

Sales 40

Sales Industry Analysis Culture 40

Management Consulted

JANUARY 25, 2016

AlixPartners is an international business advisory firm based in Southfield, MI known for its work in corporate turnarounds, bankruptcy assignments and restructuring. In more recent years, the firm has sought to diversify its business and has seen consistent growth as a reward for its efforts. Business & Consumer Services.

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Interviews Culture Turnaround Case Interview 100

CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

One of the concepts taught in business schools around the world is the concept of competitive advantage. Sometimes, the advantage is a physical asset (we have factories in 30 countries), other times it is a skill (Apple), or a culture. It applies not only to how you serve clients as a consultant but also how you manage your own career.

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Case Interview Consulting Fashion Interviews 89

Martinka Consulting

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In fact, I start out speaking engagements on buying a business by telling the audience (usually management and executive level people0 there’s a good chance it’s not for them. The icing – the top three. Leadership, or the lack thereof, is the top reason management people switch jobs (not money). The bigger you are…the better.

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Cash Flow Small Business Sports Talent 40

Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

Despite large-scale, well-funded change initiatives, sophisticated communication programs, and countless worldwide leadership summits, the hard work of bringing these complex organization designs to life often lacks focus or is not sustained over the three or more years that it typically takes to fully embed new ways of working.

Enterprise 50

Enterprise Metrics Operations System 50

MishTalk

JANUARY 22, 2014

The pile of unspent corporate cash that has built up since the start of the financial crisis is being held by an increasingly concentrated pool of companies that will be crucial to hopes of a pick-up in business investment to stimulate the world economy. Care to guess the actual cash levels of the top 50 non-financial companies?

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Deloitte Financial Comparison Study 73

Consulting Success

JANUARY 29, 2018

His work has taken him to over 20 countries in four different continents, and he is the author of several consulting and leadership books as well as a regular contributor to Forbes.com and the Harvard Business Review. How did you go from that pivotal moment of working in the arts to actually starting a consulting business?

Development 189

Development Consulting How To Case Interview 189

Harvard Business

MAY 2, 2018

Mindfulness is now seen as a crucial skill in business. It first influenced business decades ago, through the development of an unmistakably hard skill that senior managers must master: strategic planning. Wack perceived the world differently than his colleagues in the energy business. Gurdjieff in Paris.

Management 46

Management Exercises Automotive Engineering 46

MishTalk

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Central Banks and the Business Cycle I like it when someone besides a few financial bloggers takes the gloves off and starts asking some hard-hitting questions. In Cross Asset Research last week, Albert Edwards at Societe General did just that. Fix the structural problems and must of the rest will take care of itself.

Banking 75

Banking Policies Financial Marketing 75

Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models?

Methodologies 53

Methodologies Culture Metrics Company 53

MishTalk

DECEMBER 15, 2013

Consumer spending on services -- everything from rents and water bills to health care and haircuts -- is a laggard as the economy has recovered from the worst recession since the Great Depression. Unless the top 10% increase spending ~6%/yr., Services Spending. Such expenditures adjusted for inflation have risen 6.3 What''s Next?

Automotive 77

Automotive Sales Data Report 77

Management Consulted

JULY 2, 2017

We bring to you the Top 10 consulting firms in Boston area and the MC reasons as to why they made it to this list. Boston Consulting Group : It would be pretty hard not to give one of the world’s top firms – with BOSTON in its name – the top rated slot here for its global HQ office in Boston.

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Oliver Wyman Mercer Consulting Deloitte 72

Management Consulted

MAY 22, 2016

The practice areas at Archstone Consulting reflect the operational nature of consulting projects at the firm: Business Strategy. Expect it to take 3-4 years to get to the Manager level, another 4-5 for Director and another 4-5 to get to Principal. Practice Areas. IT Strategy & Operations. Shared Services & Outsourcing Advisory.

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Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

When we recently interviewed top M&A executives in Europe about their experience, fully three-quarters of them said that digital disruption has had a relatively large impact or even requires a complete overhaul of their M&A strategy. Indeed, integration of digital assets is a huge, thorny problem fraught with cultural issues.

Company 28

Company Finance Advertising Tools 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2017

In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success. The opportunity is to remove incentives for free-riding within industries where a firm might take advantage of another firm’s efforts in addressing a social or environmental issue. This is not just case-by-case evidence.

Chemicals 28

Chemicals Industry Metrics Financial 28

MishTalk

OCTOBER 2, 2013

He wants to understand the mechanics by which Congress can take Social Security receipts and use them for other purposes. click on the top link for my point by point analysis of the hype]. January 11, 2013 : Making Social Security Actuarially Sound in a Business-Friendly Manner. We all should be. Here comes the hype.

Government 76

Government Banking Analysis Meeting 76

MishTalk

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Businesses Moving Too Quickly? Are businesses are moving too quickly to robots? Please consider Automation Could Take Your Skills -- and Your Job by Patrick Thibodeau. That could be an over-the-top prediction or not. CW : What do you want people to take away from this work? Is any job safe?

Software 76

Software Case Interview Trends Banking 76

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

IBM Security research also found that health care, manufacturing, and financial services are the top three industries under attack, due to their personal data, intellectual property and physical inventory, and massive financial assets, respectively. Understanding the users who hold the potential for greatest damage is critical.

Company 28

Company Intellectual Property System Data 28

Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2017

See More Videos > See More Videos > Machine learning is enabling companies to expand their top-line growth and optimize processes while improving employee engagement and increasing customer satisfaction. Care must be taken not to reinforce any human biases implicit in prior hiring. Drone- and satellite-based asset management.

Company 45

Company Software Data Sports 45

Management Consulted

MARCH 18, 2015

The executive teams are the corporate leaders that provide overall governance of the company and business unit leaders are in charge of their regions. It is under the business unit leaders team that the head of the IMS Consulting Group falls. Asset optimization and life-cycle planning. Business development and licensing.

Groups 100

Groups Interviews Culture Consulting 100

MishTalk

MARCH 2, 2014

He also mentioned visa bans, asset freezes and trade isolation as possible steps. He may find himself with asset freezes, on Russian business. American business may pull back, there may be a further tumble of the rouble. The UK has joined the US, France and Canada in suspending preparations for the Sochi summit.

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Report Travel Management Meeting 68

MishTalk

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Clearly the author is worried about moral hazard, which occurs when firms or people are encouraged to take excessive risks because they know others will bear the consequences. The stock market topped out two days later and subsequently suffered what was then its biggest collapse since the 1929-1932 bear market. Is a crash imminent?

Banking 73

Banking Case Interview Marketing Policies 73

QEmploy

JULY 16, 2019

For instance, you have consulting within Business Strategy, Marketing, IT, Management and so on. Here are the top 5 reasons why consulting brings you benefits: 1. And this is without the bonus that might come on top of that. . Get on top of your paperwork. This is not just in one field, but can be in many different ones.

Consulting 64

Consulting Case Interview Interviews Survey 64

MishTalk

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Reality Cities are broke Taxpayers are broke Public union workers don''t care to understand the above two points As I said before, I sympathize. Default, if necessary on pension benefits above a certain level, whatever it takes to make the state solvent within 10 years, using conservative pension plan assumptions. That sounds harsh.

Education 75

Education Recruiting Recruitment Report 75

Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2018

A study by Deloitte estimated that “assets under automated management” (including hybrid offerings) in the U.S. This would represent between 10% and 15% of total retail financial assets under management. 100B in assets, and predicts double-digit growth in assets under management over the next several years.

Strategy 28

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Consulting 28

Seth Godin Blog

APRIL 8, 2013

Why the internet works (and doesnt) for your business. The classic Named "Best Business Book" by Fortune. The latest book, Poke The Box is a call to action about the initiative youre taking - in your job or in your life, and Seth once again breaks the traditional publishing model by releasing it through The Domino Project.

Real Estate 51

Real Estate Retail Marketing Company 51

Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2016

Some business pundits today believe innovation ignites better in startups than in large, established corporations. Corporations like these have the assets, resources, and capabilities necessary to fuel innovation. billion in discretionary assets under management — more than the above competitors combined.

Company 28

Company Transportation Engineering Software 28

MishTalk

JANUARY 27, 2014

The Spanish, fleeing a construction slump and an unemployment rate of 26 percent at home, say they’re just using European Union rules allowing free movement of businesses and workers. “We She seeks to double revenue and turn it into a $100 billion business, roughly the size of Costco." Demand for business loans will plunge.

Banking 78

Banking Retail Healthcare Sales 78

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2017

He radically transformed the company from a classic conglomerate that did everything to one that focused on its core industrial businesses. He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. He doubled GE’s investment in R&D.

Balance Sheet 28

Balance Sheet Financial Journal Company 28

MishTalk

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Defying the nation’s top employer and a business model that defines the new U.S. Employers like McDonalds, Whole Foods, and Sears are raking in enormous profits while workers like us, mostly adults with families, don’t get paid enough to cover basic needs like food, rent, health care and transportation. People want the jobs.

Company 77

Company Retail Transportation Report 77

Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2017

Our research shows that companies with platform- and network-based business models are exponentially better at creating value. Building a successful platform business is hard enough when you have an original idea, ample capital, no core business to cannibalize, and a team of top talent.

Intellectual Property 28

Intellectual Property Strategy Strategy Strategy& 28

Seth Godin Blog

MARCH 27, 2013

Why the internet works (and doesnt) for your business. The classic Named "Best Business Book" by Fortune. The latest book, Poke The Box is a call to action about the initiative youre taking - in your job or in your life, and Seth once again breaks the traditional publishing model by releasing it through The Domino Project.

Industry 55

Industry Leadership Resources Marketing 55

Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

Aggravated and depressed by the decline of their core memory business in the 1980s, Intel’s top management struggled for strategic clarity. Grove’s 1980 question remains as ruthlessly relevant to C-suites as Ted Levitt’s 1960 classic, “What business are you in?” If not, should they be our customers?

Enterprise 28

Enterprise Metrics Retail Productivity 28