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Brews, News and Booz & Company: Interview and Culture Insights

Management Consulted

You created not just a firm, but an industry we are all now proud of. Surely it was the largest when it was the only one, but they kept the lead after creating an idea so great that competitors formed to add unique flavor to the industry. Industries served: Aerospace & Defense. Industrials. Thank you, Edwin Booz.

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Australia's Alleged Conservatives Surrender to Unions; GM Australia vs. GM US; Currency Madness Everywhere

MishTalk

INDUSTRY Minister Ian Macfarlane made an incomprehensible decision this week. I have been writing on these issues since 2007 and have never found reason to criticise the Coalition, but this action is naive, irresponsible and indicates the government is captured by the big business-big union nexus. Looking for madness?

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

How have the firm’s growth, profits, and stock performance compared to a relevant benchmark (NASDAQ for a tech company, for example, or DAX Index for a German firm) during the transformation period? Has this transformation had impact on customers and its industry in the past decade? Today this unit accounts for 29% of revenue.

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The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business

And Gulati’s research, including interviews with 500 executives spanning industries and geographies, asserts that outside-in success is not confined to any one sector. It’s worth noting that the companies and business units in my study were tracked between 2001 and 2007. And what are the benchmarks of success?

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Reflections on 2013; What's Important, What's Not? What's Ahead?

MishTalk

Had I suggested in 2007 that the Fed balance sheet expansion of $75 billion a month would have been considered "tightening" people would have thought I was nuts. Ironically, Merkel immediately followed up with " The German government would not tolerate a weakening of German industry or job losses ". Here we are. The broad U.S.