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AlixPartners Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

AlixPartners is an international business advisory firm based in Southfield, MI known for its work in corporate turnarounds, bankruptcy assignments and restructuring. Generally regarded as turnaround market leaders, AlixPartners is doing a killer job at taking up more room in the consulting space by strategically hiring a plethora of gurus.

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

FTI expanded into investigation and research capabilities as well as turnaround, restructuring, bankruptcy and forensic accounting with the moves. In the span of 9 years, the firm acquired more than 16 consulting companies in 5 different markets, including Australia, the United Kingdom, Asia, the United States and Latin America.

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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. “Yahoo’s mobile business barely existed” when Marissa Mayer took over as CEO in 2012, wrote Vauhini Vara at The New Yorker. Perhaps by 2012 it was already too late.

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How Organic Wine Finally Caught On

Harvard Business

The paltry market for organic wine around the world belies the fact that over the past half century, countless organic winegrowers and vintners have dedicated great effort to creating a larger market for the category, without much success. The Turnaround. First, the conventional wine industry saw it as a threat. What changed?

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Stupidity of Negative Interest Rates Expands to Spain; Deflation Shock Thesis

MishTalk

This is quite a turnaround for Spain. In June 2012, it sold similar short-term debt yielding 3.237%. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Buyers were still keen, placing bids worth five times that amount, according to the Treasury.

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

Harvard Business

What’s more, the demand for rapid growth often comes with a push from investors to enter new markets or ramp up product innovation. CEOs need to know how a change in strategy (a new target market, say, or a new product) will affect manufacturing, marketing, selling, servicing, and other processes.

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. Other companies can do the same. Build a Re-Founding Team.

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