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Advisory Board Company Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Four years later, in 2001, The Advisory Board Company went public (NASDAQ: ABCO). The firm also started growing rapidly through M&A, acquiring Crimson, an analytics, data, and business intelligence software provider focused on analytics related to physician performance, healthcare practice quality and cost management in 2008.

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We May Not Have a Clear Path, But We Each Have One

Harmonious Workplaces

In 2001, Michael hired a no-name like me after an informational interview to become the Associate Marketing Director for GIA Publications. In 2009, the recession from 2008 forced me to pivot, sell the business, and reenter consulting full-time.

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Mortgage REITs Clobbered as Leverage Forces Sales

MishTalk

financial stability were as misleading as the media frenzy over shark attacks in 2001. 2011-04-23: Syndicated Interview on Canadian Radio - My Segment Starts 29:31. This Week in Money Interview. 2011-03-29 - Sound Money Interview. Sound Money Interview on 91.5fm WNYE New York. Interview with the Freedom News Hour.

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Coronavirus: Leadership during a Crisis

CaseInterview.com

There was 9/11 in 2001. There was the Great Recession in 2008. If you found this post useful, I suggest becoming a registered member (it's free) to get access to the materials I used to pass 60 out of 61 case interviews , land 7 job offers, and end up working at McKinsey. There was the dot-com boom and crash of 2000.

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Ritholtz on Gold and on.

MishTalk

Barring some new developments — like all the gold in Fort Knox becoming irradiated — I do not expect to see a resumption of the 2001-11 uptrend. 2011-04-23: Syndicated Interview on Canadian Radio - My Segment Starts 29:31. This Week in Money Interview. 2011-03-29 - Sound Money Interview. December 2008 (85).

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When a Simple Rule of Thumb Beats a Fancy Algorithm

Harvard Business

As they reported in a paper published in 2008 , rule-of-thumb methods were generally as good or even slightly better at predicting individual customer behavior than sophisticated models. “In general, if you are in an uncertain world, make it simple,” Gigerenzer said when I interviewed him earlier this year.

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Warren Buffett’s Risky Final Bet

Harvard Business

Throughout his great career, Warren Buffett has made huge bets – for example, investing billions in Goldman Sachs during the financial meltdown of 2008. As he said in a 2006 interview with Fortune, “I would not be making the gifts if they would in any way harm Berkshire’s shareholders. And they won’t.”

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