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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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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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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 2012, you could look back only 10 short years ago to see FTI as a company of 75 employees and $6 million in annual revenues, all in the United States. Restructuring/Turnaround Services.

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How Organic Wine Finally Caught On

Harvard Business

Meanwhile, plenty of other organic products, including vegetables, milk, and tea, have become widely consumed, at least by affluent, health-conscious city dwellers. The product was perceived as more prone to spoilage since it typically lacked added sulfites. The Turnaround. Why the difference?

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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

By now everyone knows the story: Kodak went into a free fall that led to bankruptcy in 2012 because it failed to respond to the disruption of digital technology — even though one of its own engineers invented a technology for capturing a digital image in 1975. The team then turned to the product line. Build a Re-Founding Team.

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants: is it just me.

The Crazy Lives of Consultants

Not solitary do we have the unexcelled prices but our turnaround heyday for your Xrumer posting is wonderful fast. November 15, 2012 at 8:20 PM. November 17, 2012 at 1:09 AM. November 17, 2012 at 8:00 AM. November 18, 2012 at 7:51 PM. November 19, 2012 at 10:15 AM. November 24, 2012 at 7:14 PM.