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Thoughts on PwC’s Booz Purchase

Tom Spencer

Back in 2001, Enron collapsed in spectacular fashion and Arthur Andersen , Enron’s auditor of 16 years, was implicated in the accounting scandal and ultimately went out of business. People sometimes mistakenly believe that PwC only provides accounting services, when in actual fact its audit business generates less than half its revenues.

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Coronavirus: Leadership during a Crisis

CaseInterview.com

There was 9/11 in 2001. There was the Great Recession in 2008. My guidance has usually been in the context of a client seeing major drops in sales, engaging in layoffs, and redirecting the team in a productive direction (as opposed to being paralyzed by fear or working on their resumes). And now we are in 2020.

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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.