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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. As such, some junior players in the firm feel like their career development is limited.

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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. For corporations, that often means developing strategies for revenue growth. For governments, it means working on national economic development. Value Partners has turnaround and change management expertise working with industrial and service multinationals.

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How to Get on the Shortlist for the C-Suite

Harvard Business

At Cisco, we prepare candidates for top slots by using executive assessments to identify strengths and development areas and by giving individuals strategic assignments to fill experience voids and provide greater exposure opportunities. It also pressure-tests you in multiple environments and delivers a broader perspective.

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

Harvard Business

Selectively developing top team members to accomplish the strategy. Not seeking CEOs who value talent development. Because of the short timeframe in which they hold their portfolio companies (typically five to seven years), investors may view executive development as a luxury. Too many CEOs fall short of these skills.

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Best 15 Podcast Editing and Production Companies

Buzzsprout

Every monthly plan comes with unlimited podcast hosting with Buzzsprout and a guaranteed 48-hour turnaround time. Most affordable podcast production services Pro Podcast Solutions | $127 per episode This production company started in 2008 to help podcasters with the technical side of podcast creation.

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. Case closed (until engineers develop an algorithm that does the job better). That quality made him (arguably) the quintessential HBR author.

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

MishTalk

Iceland Ponders Radical Money Plan I am somewhat surprised by this development, but Iceland is investigating a banking system that will eliminate all of the above flaws. The report, commissioned by the premier, is aimed at putting an end to a monetary system in place through a slew of financial crises, including the latest one in 2008.