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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

Consider GM as a case study. A finance executive said this of the decades-old corporate attitude, “We are GM. A finance executive said this of the decades-old corporate attitude, “We are GM. to 17.9%, from 1980 to 2015. The lack of quality for their customers has dogged GM for years.

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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business

If you’re not a numbers person, finance is daunting. Stop avoiding finance because you’re afraid of numbers. Think of it this way, “Finance is the way businesses keep score. “Finance and accounting are very simple. .” “Finance and accounting are very simple. Overcome your fears.

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Digital Growth Depends More on Business Models than Technology

Harvard Business

Given that those companies were all venture-financed and emerged from Silicon Valley, you might assume that the key ingredients that have ensured their success were cutting-edge technologies, digital platforms, and customer bases that were chiefly made up of digital natives.

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The Right Way to Spend Your Innovation Budget

Harvard Business

People can be hired through the sharing economy; technology can be rented by the hour; finance can be sought for any prototype, and assets bought. We’ve come to these conclusions after completing case study analyses of a range of companies, including Nokia, Kodak, Borders, Amazon, Apple, and Xerox.

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Experienced Hire from Harvard breaks in to Healthcare Consulting (Part 1)

Management Consulted

I just graduated from Harvard in 2015. So whether I want to explore other industries like aviation, automotive, or finance, and really broaden myself and be able to focus on other industries, I can do that, as well as bringing my strength in the life sciences. Does that sound good? That sounds perfect. What sets L.E.K.

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Conversation with 2020 Delivery

Tom Spencer

We’re not going to send you to Canary Wharf to work in finance. Mike Meredith: We will open for graduate and internship applications in September 2015. The best letters will do things like quote our service lines, quote our case studies, or include a reference to talking with a named individual at the Oxford careers fair, for example.