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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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Alvarez & Marsal Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

This Firm Profile started as an email from Sean, asking if we could write on Alvarez & Marsal, “The Turnaround Guys”. The firm’s first turnaround client was the household brand, Timex Corporation. This added to the firm’s already glowing reputation as they continued to diversify their services and enter new markets.

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The Consulting Value Proposition

Tom Spencer

Areas of expertise that a consulting firm might provide include: Industry specific knowledge; Strategy; Marketing; Supply chain optimization; Distribution; Organisational change; Information technology; Tax structuring; Risk management; Human resources; and. Turnarounds. Catalyst for Change.

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Steel Consumption in China Declines First Time in Three Decades; Painful Rebalancing

MishTalk

China's apparent crude steel consumption fell for the first time in three decades in 2014, data from an industry association showed, a further indication of how the country's economic slowdown is hurting industrial demand. million tonnes in 2014, according to calculations published by the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) on Thursday.

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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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Lincolnshire, Illinois Approves Right-to-Work Ordinance; Battle Headed for Courts

MishTalk

Bruce Rauner's controversial Turnaround Agenda for Illinois, which many people have blasted as being anti-union. Elements of the Turnaround Agenda -- especially the right-to-work proposal -- have been criticized as unconstitutional, too. My only problem with the 2014 ruling was that it did not go far enough.

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Bad News: You Have to Grow to Pay Your Debt

Martinka Consulting

On May 4, 2015 a Wall Street Journal article discussed the Japanese company Suntory and its 2014 acquisition of Jim Beam. Suntory will have to outpace industrywide growth in its two biggest markets, the U.S. and Japan, and expand into new markets.” Nobody in my market! Hitting that goal won’t be easy.