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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

FTI expanded into investigation and research capabilities as well as turnaround, restructuring, bankruptcy and forensic accounting with the moves. In 2005, the firm developed their first 5-year plan with a goal to double revenues from approximately $427M to $1B in 5 years. Restructuring/Turnaround Services. Litigation discovery.

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The Decline of Yahoo in Its Own Words

Harvard Business

Plenty of theories have been put forth to explain Yahoo’s failures, as the company seeks a buyer following a failed turnaround attempt. One of the most prominent is that Yahoo was late to mobile. “Yahoo’s mobile business barely existed” when Marissa Mayer took over as CEO in 2012, wrote Vauhini Vara at The New Yorker.

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Outsider CEOs Are on the Rise at the World’s Biggest Companies

Harvard Business

Outsiders, in effect, have become more of an intentional leadership choice than a stereotypical hire in a turnaround or crisis situation. Iger has been in charge of Disney since 2005. (Planned successions exclude mergers and acquisitions, as well as situations when CEOs are abruptly forced out.) one of the authors of the study.

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7 Factors of Great Office Design

Harvard Business

Since its 2005 founding, the marketing company had grown to over 1,100 employees. The developer teams realized that they were more interactive than they initially imagined, but also needed quiet space to churn out quick turnaround projects.

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business

After studying and working with hundreds of companies in free fall, we’ve identified concrete steps that leadership teams can take to engineer successful turnarounds and transformations. From 2005 to 2007 its revenues declined from 144 million euros to 90 million euros, and it lost between 10 million and 20 million euros per year.

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business

In “Change Through Persuasion” (2005), another piece coauthored with Michael Roberto, he departed from that norm, describing how Paul Levy, then CEO of Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, led a painful turnaround.

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4 Ways CEOs Can Conquer Short-Termism

Harvard Business

He developed a three-year plan for his turnaround vision, which was translated into annual and quarterly operating plans, and biquarterly responsibilities for his executive team. Masonite began to struggle shortly after the deal was completed, in 2005, and then declared bankruptcy in 2009. Consider, once again, the case of Fred Lynch.

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