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Alvarez & Marsal Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

One example is when the New York School’s system hired them to boost the efficiency of their school bus network, which they did, saving the city $12M. This Firm Profile started as an email from Sean, asking if we could write on Alvarez & Marsal, “The Turnaround Guys”. Turnaround and Restructuring. Practice Areas.

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Digital Growth Depends More on Business Models than Technology

Harvard Business

I explained this in an article that was published in Harvard Business Review in 2008, before any of those companies began, and, now, 10 years later, that still holds true, as more and more of the business discourse is focused on digital transformation. An instant messaging system that also allows for collaboration at work.

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Food Stamp Growth Outpaces Illinois Job Creation 5-4 During Recovery

MishTalk

Job losses from the Great Recession occurred from January 2008 to January 2010, and since then, states have had five-and-a-half years of recovery. Bruce Rauner’s Turnaround Agenda, which addresses Illinois’ top economic reform needs. Manufacturing has borne the brunt of Illinois’ policy failures.

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Case Study: Can You Fix a Toxic Culture Without Firing People?

Harvard Business

Water, no ice, please,” said Noelle Freeman, the CFO of Franklin Climate Systems. Franklin was in the business of designing, engineering, and manufacturing climate control systems for cars and SUVs. Watching the clouds out her window at 30,000 feet, she’d been deep in thought.

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The Decline of Yahoo in Its Own Words

Harvard Business

Plenty of theories have been put forth to explain Yahoo’s failures, as the company seeks a buyer following a failed turnaround attempt. By then Apple and Google were already dominant in mobile operating systems, and Facebook was surging ahead in apps. One of the most prominent is that Yahoo was late to mobile. That makes sense.

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

Harvard Business

From looking at the qualities of the CEOs at the best-performing of these firms, we have found three fundamental CEO qualities that drive growth in the most successful PE investments: Systems thinking (the capacity to understand how a change in one aspect of the workings of an operation affects the others). And it has continued to this day.

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business

To quote the article, “If organizations are ‘systems for getting work done,’ processes provide a fine-grained description of the means.” ” (2008), it seems to me, is that it serves as an assessment tool that allows managers and executives to benchmark their organizations against other units and companies.