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Business Book Review: Start-Up Nation

Management Consulted

Today is an interesting book review on Start-Up Nation by Dan Senor and Saul Singer. This book is a fantastic summary of creative ideas, innovations, startup and entrepreneurial genius that have been churned up by Israel. In 2008, per capita venture capital investments in Israel were 2.5 Enjoy their insight! WHY READ IT?

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Bridgespan Non-Profit Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

. BRIDGESPAN INTERVIEWS & CULTURE . In 2008, Bridgespan redesigned its website in an attempt to provide better knowledge transfer. Strategy Consulting. Bridgespan brings a passion for making the world a better place into strategy consulting. Funding Strategy. Global Strategy. Strategy Development.

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Booz Allen Hamilton Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

In 2008, after months of negotiations, the commercial side broke away and became Booz & Company, with the governmental side keeping the name Booz Allen Hamilton. As for Booz & Company, it was purchased by PricewaterhouseCoopers and became Strategy& , a firm we covered in an earlier Firm Profile. Organization & Strategy.

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Advisory Board Company Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

You’ll have to read on to hear our opinion (see Culture section in particular). The firm also started growing rapidly through M&A, acquiring Crimson, an analytics, data, and business intelligence software provider focused on analytics related to physician performance, healthcare practice quality and cost management in 2008.

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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Great leaders achieve great results and create great company cultures. According to Jim Collins in the book Good to Great, a review of 1,435 companies studied over more than forty years revealed that leadership effectiveness accounted for up to 6.9 times greater financial returns than market averages. Key Summary Points. Dhar, U., &

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Thoughts on PwC’s Booz Purchase

Tom Spencer

Why would a trusted global accounting firm like Arthur Anderson fail to properly audit Enron’s books? Cultural Integration. Firstly, cultural integration is a difficult and delicate process. Cultural integration may be the least of PwC’s worries. Small conflict of interest. Headaches Ahead. People Have Legs.

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Interesting Hussman.

MishTalk

Recommended Books. Interesting Hussman Tweets on Case Shiller PE, Institutional Selling, Book Values. On Book Value (Re-tweeted by Hussman). Chanos says more companies >3x book value now than March 2000. Interesting Hussman Tweets on Case Shiller PE, Institutional Selling, Book Values. December 2008 (85).