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Consulting or Banking

Tom Spencer

Within an investment bank, the work is split into many roles including investment banking, sales and trading, equity research, risk management, operations, and technology. People in the “investment banking” or “corporate finance” division typically help large organisations undertake merges and acquisitions.

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More Universities Need to Teach Sales

Harvard Business

For decades, Sales and Academia remained worlds apart and the business world did fine. But Sales is changing, Academia is out of touch, and this is bad for business and the academy. Compared to professions like engineering or business disciplines like Finance or Operations, the concept of a dedicated salesperson is relatively recent.

Sales 28
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How One Startup Developed a Sales Model That Works in Emerging Markets

Harvard Business

These challenges forced BioLite to reevaluate our approach and customize our sales methods to a market that demands an entirely different way of doing business. It was a good idea in theory, but ultimately it was too passive as a sales approach: Simply placing our HomeStove on a shelf did not lead to uptake. Here’s the thing.

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M.A.D. Sanctions; Two Games at Once

MishTalk

Thus the EU let a French military sale to Russia go through, while blocking transactions and travel of Russians who had virtually nothing to do with this mess. From a financing standpoint, I suspect Granville is correct. Consumers lose, businesses loses, countries lose. And the hypocrisy alone is appalling. Knockout Blow?

Banking 71
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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

They did much of the work piecing together Mr. Madoff’s money trail and just recently flew over to Puerto Rico for the Puerto Rico Government, who hired FTI to improve operations of utilities and highway units (2014). Corporate Finance/Restructuring. However, US-based clients still account for the vast majority (around 75%) of sales.

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A.T. Kearney Interview & Culture

Management Consulted

Marketing & Sales. Working anywhere from the strategy related to the business unit to corporate finance and strategy to strategic foresight, A.T. Transportation & Travel. Summer Associates are given the opportunity to travel as they will be stationed both at client sites and in the office. Sustainability.

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Automation Makes Things Cheaper, So Why Doesn’t It Feel That Way?

Harvard Business

From 2012 to 2014, the median home price rose by 17.3%. Department of Agriculture reported that food prices rose 31% from 2005 to 2014. Blu-ray and DVD sales have suffered declines of more than 10% for the last two years. The prices of most of those expenditures are rising faster than inflation. There are 3.5

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