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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

After building a successful model in financial services, Oliver Wyman expanded to offer pure strategy consulting services to non-financial services groups and now has 2 internal divisions that operate relatively independently. Strategic Information Technology and Operations. Oliver Wyman became own firm again. Mercer buys Oliver Wyman.

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business

In 2007 Harvard Business School professor Ethan S. In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. A great salesperson will operate much more efficiently with a defined process for reaching out to prospects.

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How the Great Recession Changed Banking

Harvard Business

The Great Recession of 2007 to 2009 was under way. Investment banks now spend an average of $300,000 per year on these functions per “front office” employee who works with clients, such as sales and trading personnel. Layoffs, particularly in sales and trading, have accompanied lower profits. Lehman Brothers toppled.

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America's First Marijuana Stores Open in Colorado; Record Opium Crop in Afghanistan; Six Beneficiaries of "War on Drugs"

MishTalk

Colorado ushers in the new year as the first US state to allow retail cannabis sales. Marijuana users celebrated as Colorado became the first US state to allow retail cannabis sales, putting it in the vanguard of efforts across the country to legalize the drug. How much hemp is necessary to meet current US energy needs?

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Is There a Shortage of Skilled Workers? My Own Personal Experiences

MishTalk

Of the 700,000 immigrant STEM workers allowed into the country between 2007 and 2012, only one-third got a STEM job, about one-third got a non-STEM job, and about one-third are not working. I was on a project at US Bank in Minneapolis involving a merger or sale of a Piper Jeffrey trading system. I was there though Bank One.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business

” For example, productivity has grown dramatically in the retail sector since 1990; inflation-adjusted sales per employee have grown by roughly 50%. Walmart is the country’s largest employer and largest company by revenue and it reached that position through an operating model made possible by proprietary logistics software.