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Career Bankers Alone Can’t Solve the Financial Industry’s Problems

Harvard Business

Some firms, like Deutsche Bank, are still trying to clamber out of holes they dug before the financial meltdown, negotiating multibillion-dollar settlements with the Department of Justice. A lot has changed in the banking industry since the crisis in 2008 , especially in terms of regulation and compliance. First, hubris.

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Save Lives vs. Save the Economy

CaseInterview.com

In the Great Recession, the US Economy had a financial services sector (think investment banks) that grew in size until it was far larger than the economy needed to make the economy run. Prior to 2008, the financial sector grew way beyond enabling the rest of the economy. This was true in the Great Recession of 2008.

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Going into Consulting in a World Changed by COVID-19

Tom Spencer

If we learned anything from the 2008 financial crisis, it is fair to say that in lean times private sector organizations have less resources available to invest in consulting. In 2008, consulting projects still went on, but they shifted more towards necessary functions or cost management projects.

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Problems in Italy Go On.

MishTalk

China Financial Markets. Financial Sense. Youth unemployment is 40 per cent; it’s 50 per cent in southern Italy, to the delight of crime syndicate recruiters. or financial instrument, or to participate in any particular trading or investment strategy. Top Financial Blog Citations. December 2008 (85).

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Brews, News and Booz & Company: Interview and Culture Insights

Management Consulted

He began by helping firms recruit competent executives, acquire new customers, and establish conducive office space. After 2 years, he recruited 2 friends from Chicago and formed the Business Research and Development Company with $500 borrowed from the bank. Financial Services. BOOZ & COMPANY INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING.

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3 Steps to Cultivate an Innovation Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

A financial services company engaged in investment banking and capital markets estimated the customer benefit of the Space X Falcon 9 reusable rocket. Space travel alone is challenging, but reusing a rocket by landing it on a drone ship takes the complexity to another level. million per launch. billion on R&D. McKinsey & Company.

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Advisory Board Company Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

.” In the years that followed, the company realized that solving any question for any company for any industry was a difficult first step for the small firm, so the firm started specializing in the financial services industry in 1983. Van Hoose), and a Chief Financial Officer (Michael T. Musslewhite), a President (David L.