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Inside a Fortune 500 Boardroom

CaseInterview.com

In contrast, my favorite boardroom belonged to a clothing retail chain in California during the Great Recession of 2008. If you know finance, especially the finance of retail businesses, that’s nearly impossible. Gross Margin = Price of Your Product - Cost of the Product. but was still profitable!

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Winning Isn’t Everything: The Art of Playing Well

Tom Spencer

This idea has been echoed by some of the most influential figures in the business and finance world, including Professor Michael Porter, Michael Lewis, and Warren Buffett. Sustainable long term success should be defined not by the immediate outcome of your actions, but by the journey and the principles that you uphold along the way.

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Jim Whitehurst on the Open Organization: A Conversation with the CEO of Red Hat

BCG

Jim Whitehurst is the president and CEO of Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open-source enterprise IT products and services. With a background in business development, finance, and global operations, Whitehurst has a reputation for helping companies flourish—even in the most challenging of times.

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Consulting or Banking

Tom Spencer

Within an investment bank, the work is split into many roles including investment banking, sales and trading, equity research, risk management, operations, and technology. People in the “investment banking” or “corporate finance” division typically help large organisations undertake merges and acquisitions.

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Consultant Ninja: What to put on a consulting resume (part 3 of a.

Consultant Ninja

Wednesday, December 10, 2008. In my years of being involved with MBA recruiting, Ive never been able to hire a former special forces operator, but Ive been dying to come up with the right reason. December 10, 2008 at 11:56 AM. Wednesday, December 10, 2008. Productivity. (6). See if you can find me on LinkedIn!!!

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Consultant Ninja: Whither art thou Marakon: Management.

Consultant Ninja

Can anyone from Marakon weigh in and explain whats happening inside its "operating subsidiaries"? NEW YORK -- Marakon, the international management consultancy and Integrated Finance Limited (IFL), a financial advisory firm, are merging. . Productivity. (6). Trinsum.com, January 24, 2007 Trinsum Group, Inc., at 5:23 PM.

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Strong Economy – Strong Buy-Sell Market

Martinka Consulting

70% of medium sized companies will change hands (2008). Notice the same predictions from 2008-2015? Gallup recently released a five-year-long study showing the variance between high and low productivity is 70% attributable to the manager. Synergistic product line firm. Contract manufacturer (of your product).