Tom Spencer

MAY 8, 2016

Investment banks help companies raise money for various purposes including investment, acquisitions, and provision of working capital. Within an investment bank, the work is split into many roles including investment banking, sales and trading, equity research, risk management, operations, and technology.

Banking 60

Banking Consulting Comparison Finance 60

Consultant Ninja

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Tuesday, November 11, 2008. After seeing so many markets down, my cousin in the hunting business informed me that gun sales have been surging, due to Obama winning the presidency. Alvarez & Marsals Bryan Marsal, Lehmans restructuring officer, ``is actually operating the company. Tuesday, November 11, 2008.

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Oliver Wyman Marketing Consulting Management 100

Tom Spencer

JULY 22, 2013

your company, non-profit or government agency is looking for quality strategic advice. Booz & Company. Edgar, Dunn & Company. Bain & Company. Founded in 1973 when Bill Bain and others left BCG to form Bain & Company. Booz & Company. In 2008, Booz separated its operations from the U.S.

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Oliver Wyman Strategy Strategy Strategy& 83

Martinka Consulting

APRIL 26, 2019

Record number of small business sales in 2018! Well, the median revenue of these companies was about $500,000 and the median selling price was about $250,000. Typically these are companies where the owner is behind the counter and if he or she hired someone to do that work they would go broke. Supplier’s company.

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Marketing PricewaterhouseCoopers Cash Flow Banking 40

Tom Spencer

MAY 31, 2012

Bain & Company. Founded in 1973 when Bill Bain and others left BCG to form Bain & Company. Bain operates in 47 offices across 30 countries. In Ausralia, Bain operates out of Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. Founded in 1963 by Bruce Henderson, BCG operates in more than 75 offices worldwide. Crescendo Partners.

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Oliver Wyman Strategy Strategy Strategy& 122

Tom Spencer

MAY 15, 2014

your company, non-profit or government agency is looking for quality strategy advice. Edgar, Dunn & Company. Services include Strategy Development, Operational Improvement, and Transaction Support. PJP focuses on helping companies with strategy and organisation. Bain & Company. Pacific Strategy Partners.

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Oliver Wyman Strategy Strategy Strategy& 76

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 14, 2018

More than 20 companies launched at that time , including Uber, Slack, Pinterest, and Blue Apron, eventually achieved $1 billion-plus valuations. Yes, those companies had great technologies, platforms, and demographics, but the secret of their success turns out to be much more prosaic. Yagi Studio/Getty Images. You would be wrong.

Advertising 50

Advertising Turnaround Resources Comparison 50

Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Bain & Company. Booz & Company. McKinsey & Company. Established in 1989, Accenture operates in more than 120 countries worldwide. Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Founded in 1983, A&M operates in 38 cities worldwide. Bain & Company.

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Oliver Wyman Strategy Strategy Strategy& 107

MishTalk

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Chris Hood and Jon Schultz paid $13,500 for the rights to Ebola.com back in 2008 and have just sold it to a company called Weed Growth Fund. The terms of sale call for Hood and Schultz to get $50,000 in cash and 19,192 shares of Cannabis Sativa, Inc., But the WHO warned against any assumption that the outbreak there was ending.

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Trends Report Sales Operations 64

CaseInterview.com

MARCH 17, 2020

There was the Great Recession in 2008. My guidance has usually been in the context of a client seeing major drops in sales, engaging in layoffs, and redirecting the team in a productive direction (as opposed to being paralyzed by fear or working on their resumes). They will also tell everyone else, "Hey, sales are down 50%.”.

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Leadership Case Interview Interviews Sales 88

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job. He tripled Microsoft’s sales to $78 billion and profits more than doubled from $9 billion to $22 billion. Microsoft ended the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops).

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Operations Productivity Software Talent 28

MishTalk

JULY 14, 2013

Clearly the pace of sales is very far below the business plan. With estimated operating costs of 1.7 The author may or may not have a position in any company or advertiser referenced above. December 2008 (85). November 2008 (78). October 2008 (108). September 2008 (140). August 2008 (93).

Banking 76

Banking Analysis Trends Real Estate 76

Management Consulted

MAY 10, 2015

A global firm with a very interesting history, they’re known for motivating, developing and training their clients’ staff as well as the for research they carry out on the companies they work with. Hay, who said, “the most successful companies of the future will be the ones that take full advantage of improved personnel techniques.”.

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Groups Interviews Culture Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

JANUARY 5, 2018

For example, in 2009 professors Brian Becker, Mark Huselid, and Richard Beatty estimated that in most companies less than 15% of jobs are what they call strategic positions and said management should focus “disproportionate investments” on finding A players for those jobs. Connectors in the middle. High-potential future leaders.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The post-scandal scrutiny of Wells Fargo’s culture has so far focused on the high-pressure sales environment that drove employees to create as many as two million fake accounts. The bank has since fired 5,300 employees for the illegal behavior and eliminated retail bank sales goals entirely. But the fallout is far from over.

Leadership 37

Leadership Banking Ethics Culture 37

Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2017

But at good jobs companies, these very skills are already demanded, developed, and put to use. Mercadona’s store employees are empowered to order products and present them in a way that satisfies their customers and improves company performance. When that future comes, who will have the competitive advantage?

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Retail System Training Training 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2018

Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. If AI-guided investing can work for a person, can it also work for a company? Companies are both operators and investors.

Strategy 28

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Consulting 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. We exclude companies with a traditional CSR program that supports employee volunteering in the community – this does not by itself qualify as sustainability.

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Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2018

We investigated this topic when we studied how Nokia executives dealt with the company’s severe strategic challenges between 2007 and 2013. Recall that Nokia dominated the mobile and smartphone markets in 2007-2008 when Apple launched the iPhone and Google the Android operating system.

Strategy 28

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Analysis 28

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Recently, Mayer Laboratories sued Church and Dwight, Trojan’s parent company, for illegally monopolizing the market. I had an opportunity to interview senior managers and department heads of Japan’s multinational manufacturing companies. My group chose to examine the U.S. market for latex condoms.

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Consulting Case Interview Interviews Engineering 204

MishTalk

JANUARY 27, 2014

Today''s information technology allows a multinational company to position research, marketing, finance and managerial jobs to anywhere. In the neighboring town of Anglet, a Spanish company built the concert hall inaugurated this month. A kilometer up the road, in Bayonne, a Spanish company is building a 15-lodging apartment block.

Banking 78

Banking Retail Healthcare Sales 78

Harvard Business

JANUARY 11, 2017

The companies that are most vocal about environmental and social issues tend to be big, mass-market brands — well-known retailers , consumer products giants , and tech firms that are telling a new story to consumers who increasingly care about sustainability. These companies can’t ignore sustainability.

Energy 28

Energy Productivity Retail Financial 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2017

Sales isn’t what you do. I’ve also faced them myself with the companies I founded and scaled. This new reality, in which developing talent is a key business imperative, requires real buy-in from top brass in your company, all the way up to the CEO. Not all learning activities will take place on company time.

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How To Development Metrics Talent 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

Data is now the critical tool for managing many corporate functions, including marketing, pricing, supply chain, operations, and more. Analytics are critical to companies’ performance. But is the pendulum starting to swing too far? Insight Center. Putting Data to Work. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Data Management Methodologies Tools 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2017

He radically transformed the company from a classic conglomerate that did everything to one that focused on its core industrial businesses. Andreessen’s article helped accelerate the company’s digital transformation. So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. of the company.

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Balance Sheet Financial Journal Company 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 10, 2016

On August 1 Uber announced that it is selling its Chinese brand and operations to Didi Chuxing for $1 billion, its annual burn rate in that market, in exchange for a 20% stake in the local competitor. And that the two companies’ CEOs, Travis Kalanick and Cheng Wei, would take seats on each other’s boards.

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Operations Comparison Transportation Marketing 28

Tom Spencer

JANUARY 27, 2023

Founded in 2003 by CEO Elon Musk, the company has rapidly expanded its offerings from luxury electric vehicles (EVs) to renewable energy solutions, positioning itself at the forefront of the transition to a low-carbon economy. In 2017, Tesla unveiled the Megapack , a large-scale battery system for utilities and grid operators.

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Energy Sports Media Industry 88

MishTalk

JANUARY 18, 2016

Banks have made drilling loans to companies that are only profitable at oil prices above $50. On September 30, 2008, the SEC and the FASB issued a joint clarification regarding the implementation of fair value accounting in cases where a market is disorderly or inactive. On December 30, 2008, the SEC issued its report under Sec.

Energy 28

Energy Banking Journal Report 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 24, 2017

In the years to come, even after seemingly strong performance, commentators would breathlessly describe Microsoft as having a lost decade , despite tripling sales and increasing profit from $9 billion to $22 billion. Following past research, we obtained data on a firm’s reputation using Fortune’s most admired companies ranking.

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Comparison Marketing Research Journal 31

MishTalk

MARCH 1, 2015

The city’s credit quality could weaken as unfunded pension liabilities grow and exert increased pressure on the city’s operating budget,” Moody’s analysts Matthew Butler and Rachel Cortez wrote. “ with the Federal Reserve keeping its overnight target close to zero since 2008. The city has a $300 million structural deficit in its $3.53

System 28

System Operations Report Financial 28

Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

We have yet another interesting read for you today – in fact, we learned a lot as we took a closer look into the kind of work this company does and the areas of expertise they possess. Well, needless to say, a company where both founders are Ph.D. sales force teams. ZS ASSOCIATES KEY STATS.

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Case Interview Interviews Sales Pharmaceuticals 100

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Powerful, because advanced algorithms can take a near-unlimited number of factors into account, provide deep insights into variation, and scale to meet the needs of even the largest company. Algorithms only operate on the inputs they’re provided. Perilous, because bad data and hidden false assumptions can seriously mislead.

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Data Trends Financial Examples 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Some argue that profits are stagnant because of short-termism—that decades of focusing on current profits over long-run innovativeness has resulted, now, in companies that are hollowed out. There are many reasons companies benefit from hiring an outsider, such as to effect change. Note the solution is not to avoid outside CEOs.

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Company Trends Research Case Interview 28

ConsultX

MARCH 1, 2022

Imagine being able to quickly and accurately calculate how much money a business is sacrificing through imperfect operation, and which areas of the business are draining the most profit. This is Profit that is being missed out on from areas of the business that aren’t operating as they should. What is Profit Leakage?

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Cash Flow ROI Operations Analysis 52

Harvard Business

MARCH 27, 2017

Companies that have successfully combatted the excesses of overload have done so by focusing on the root causes of unproductive collaboration—and not merely the symptoms—in devising the cure. Meetings, emails, IMs and other workplace interactions don’t just happen; they are a by-product the company’s organization.

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

Learning from Big Companies. We recently completed a study for the CEO of a very well known, global sports-apparel brand company. He wanted to challenge his team, as part of the strategic talent review process, to think about whether or not the company’s organizational architecture was suited to its growth plan to double in size.

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Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82

freshminds

MAY 24, 2016

86% agree it makes life more affordable, 83% agree it makes life more convenient and efficient, 76% agree it's better for the environment, 78% agree it builds a stronger community, 63% agree it is more fun than engaging with traditional companies, 89% agree it is based on trust between providers and users. billion since its launch.

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Hotels Transportation Energy Company 53