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Book Review – “How the mighty fall” by Jim Collins

Tom Spencer

Leadership was also at fault with the head of the group, Vijay Mallya, exhibiting undisciplined extravagance in the low-margin aviation industry leading him to borrow heavily from the banks. Kingfisher’s acquisition in 2007 of Air Deccan, a lowcost airline, fits the quote perfectly. Conclusion. Image: Flickr.

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Conversation with North Highland

Tom Spencer

Founded in 1992, North Highland is an employee-owned global management consulting firm that has been named as a Best Firm to Work For every year since 2007 by Consulting Magazine. We have both short and long-term assignments available between the US and the UK, depending on client needs, firm leadership roles, career goals, etc.

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

Management Consulted

Marc Gerencser, managing director, noted in 2007 that returning to being a private firm allowed Booz & Company to make long-range investments that they may not have otherwise been able to make. The practice areas of Booz & Company include: Strategy and Leadership. Operations and Logistics. Organization and Change.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

The list includes a health care company that was once near bankruptcy (DaVita), a software firm whose stock price stagnated for a decade (Microsoft), a travel website that faced overwhelming competition (Priceline), a food giant that seemed to lose its focus (Danone), and a steel company that faced new pressure from lower-cost rivals (ThyssenKrupp).

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Consultants Blog, Stardate: September 2017

The Nonprofit Consultant

Pass your time travel boots through the x-ray machine, buckle your space belt, and join me on a journey to 2017. Remember back in 2007? Back when all the 'experts' were warning of the coming nonprofit leadership shortage? The trend of nonprofit mergers and bankruptcies more than kept pace with the loss of baby boomer leadership.

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ZS Associates Firm Profile

Management Consulted

In 2004, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) awarded Andy and Prabha the Marketing Science Practice Prize for outstanding implementation of marketing science concepts and methods, recognizing the sales territory alignment system they had developed and implemented through the work of ZS Associates.

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Top Consulting Firms

CaseInterview.com

However, they tend to have an intense lifestyle with lots of travel, face-to-face engagements, and long hours as a result. If you are interested in a career with a lot of travel, this could be a good place for you. Semi-annual evaluations focus on areas likethought leadership, client leadership, and people leadership.