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Alvarez & Marsal Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Alvarez & Marsal have been making waves in recent years for the high profile, high quality work they did in the midst of the banking crisis. This Firm Profile started as an email from Sean, asking if we could write on Alvarez & Marsal, “The Turnaround Guys”. Turnaround and Restructuring. ALVAREZ & MARSAL KEY STATS.

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Consultant Ninja: Finally, two counter-cyclical markets: Management.

Consultant Ninja

Tuesday, November 11, 2008. The other sector Im long on is turnaround consulting: 10-13-08. Tuesday, November 11, 2008. 2010-Present: Off the road 2009 Stats: Airline Miles: 24,902 Nights away from home: 73 (of 216: 34% of nights) AMEX Charges: $21,220 2008 Stats: Airline miles: 87,589 Nights away from home: 159 (of 365: 43.6%

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"Bubblicious" High End Flipping Up 350%, Overall Flipping Down 13%

MishTalk

Flipping houses went out of fashion around 2008, along with flip phones and sub-prime mortgages. What’s behind these quick turnarounds? Regardless, bubbles never end well (except for bank executives and corporate insiders who cash out stock options and sell every share on the way up). Mike "Mish" Shedlock.

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Iceland Ponders Radical Money Plan Including Elimination of Fractional Reserve Lending and Deposit Insurance

MishTalk

banks issuing 2-year CDs and lending money for 15-year mortgages), bank''s ability to lend money into existence, and deposit insurance. Fractional reserve lending allows banks to lend out a near infinite amount of credit with essentially no backing. And banks are not required to hold any reserves on savings accounts at all.

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List of strategy consulting firms in Hong Kong

Tom Spencer

Booz, Booz & Co broke away from Booz Allen Hamilton in 2008. Seabury Group is a global advisory and investment management group providing investment banking, restructuring, management consulting, IT development, and human capital advisory services. Unit 17, Level 18, Wheelock House. 20 Pedder Street. Tel: +852 3650 6100.

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How to Get on the Shortlist for the C-Suite

Harvard Business

Turnaround leaders pick up the pieces and make things right when a business or function is failing to perform. One chief strategy officer I met got the job after bringing his company back from the brink with a number of savvy strategic alliances, essentially turning it around after the 2008 recession.

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