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Alvarez & Marsal Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

As the 2008 banking crisis ensued, Alvarez & Marsal played a pivotal role in liquidating Lehman Brother’s assets while also servicing many other high-profile clients. Automotive and Suppliers. It was during this period that Bryan Marsal oversaw the wind-down of Arthur Andersen in the post-Enron era of Sarbanes-Oxley. Tax Advisory.

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

Management Consulted

2008 was when the split came, and Booz Allen Hamilton (parent company) divided in 2. Automotive. Exit Opportunities: Exit opportunities from Booz & Company are not as extensive as MBB, because the network of the pure strategy firm is still new, the training still untested, and the prestige still growing. Program Management.

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Top Consulting Firms

CaseInterview.com

Robust training programs and fun company social life take the edge off hard work and long hours, but it’s “up or out” for consultants (“up or out” refers to the mentality that a consultant needs to reach a certain level in the company by a certain time or they could be let go). Compensation Outlook. Compensation Outlook.

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The Social and Political Costs of the Financial Crisis, 10 Years Later

Harvard Business

It is hard to overstate the sheer economic cost of the 2008 financial crisis. The combination of increased expenditures and decreased revenues resulting from the crisis from 2008 to 2010 is likely to cost the United States government well over $2 trillion , more than twice the cost of the 17-year-long war in Afghanistan.