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Alvarez & Marsal Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

This Firm Profile started as an email from Sean, asking if we could write on Alvarez & Marsal, “The Turnaround Guys”. The firm’s first turnaround client was the household brand, Timex Corporation. Turnaround and Restructuring. 2015) #2 Top Restructuring Firm – The Deal Out-of-Court Restructuring League.

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Digital Growth Depends More on Business Models than Technology

Harvard Business

I explained this in an article that was published in Harvard Business Review in 2008, before any of those companies began, and, now, 10 years later, that still holds true, as more and more of the business discourse is focused on digital transformation.

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The Mistakes PE Firms Make When They Pick CEOs for Portfolio Companies

Harvard Business

From 2008 to 2015 SCA’s revenue rose 88% (from $690 million to $1.3 Leaders who were internally driven to improve themselves stayed with the organization while others opted out. The impact began to show in the first year, with an 11% increase in profits. And it has continued to this day.

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business

” (2008), it seems to me, is that it serves as an assessment tool that allows managers and executives to benchmark their organizations against other units and companies. But the main contribution of “Is Yours a Learning Organization?” Case closed (until engineers develop an algorithm that does the job better).