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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

Revenue: $1.35B (2010). After building a successful model in financial services, Oliver Wyman expanded to offer pure strategy consulting services to non-financial services groups and now has 2 internal divisions that operate relatively independently. Corporate and Finance and Advisory. Website: [link]. Size: 3,000 employees.

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Lettuce Bot - Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis

MishTalk

Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. Robots will cost plenty - for the largest farming operations, millions of dollars - but farm operators say the expense will be worth it. Machinery and machine technology has made farming easier and more efficient for centuries. 2010-02-12 Max Keiser.

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Joint Ventures Reduce the Risk of Major Capital Investments

Harvard Business

In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. The latest nuclear reactor designs, promising higher safety, longer operating life, and lower operating costs, cost up to $25 billion after factoring in the huge budget overruns. Model 1: Virtual operator.

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How One Nonprofit Is Expanding Health Care for the Uninsured

Harvard Business

a cataract operation can cost $200 or less, compared with $3,500 in the U.S. Under the leadership of Anthony Tersigni, Ascension’s president and CEO, the organization has sought to become much more efficient at delivering health care. The savings to Ascension in supplies alone totaled about $1 billion, or 5% of total revenues.

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Making Sense of Our Very Competitive, Super Monopolistic Economy

Harvard Business

Blockbuster went bankrupt in 2010. Firms concentrate on what they’re good at, adopt new technology, and deliver products and services more efficiently. They have gotten to where they are because they operate in sectors where there are network effects.” Then Netflix happened. are in different phases of this cycle.

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The Real (and Imagined) Problems with the U.S. Corporate Tax Code

Harvard Business

companies don’t pay taxes on debt-financed investments, which amounts to a subsidy. After-tax profits are at historically high levels; they were more than 50% higher as a share of GDP in the years 2010-2015 than they were over the prior 20 years. And in practice, the foreign income of U.S. Further, U.S.

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Stop Focusing on Profitability and Go for Growth

Harvard Business

Global capital balances more than doubled between 1990 and 2010 — from $220 trillion (about 6.5 So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. Accordingly, business leaders sought to improve efficiency by employing Six Sigma, process reengineering, spans and layers, and other tools. times global GDP).