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Mergers & Acquisitions: The Importance of Creating a Shared Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

Culture is acutely critical during notable changes, such as M&As, which offer an opportunity for a renewed start on culture. When two organizations combine through mergers and acquisitions for economic reasons, it is doubtful that the two cultures will remain precisely the same.

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2016 Top 10 U.S. MBA programs for Management Consulting

Management Consulted

With that in mind, we compiled the 2016 Top 10 U.S In 2015, 168 students of the 748-person class went in to consulting, despite the strong interest in investment banking at Columbia as well its culture of encouraging entrepreneurship. MBA programs for Management Consulting – and the results may surprise you.

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Top Consulting Firms

CaseInterview.com

Prestige : How much influence does the consulting firm carry in the industry? Culture : Is the work environment healthy or toxic? revenue in 2016 and 26,000 personnel. It has consistently been the #1 most valued brand in the consulting industry and is associated with cutting-edge strategic approaches. Work-Life Balance.

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Performance Improvement and the Evolution of Consulting

Effective Managers

What’s more, even today, most of the industry activity is in North America and Europe. According to the latest research from 2016, as much as 78% of the global management consulting spend is within the boundaries of North America and Europe. Despite that, the whole industry is still very large.

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Should a CEO’s Bonus Be Based on Financial Performance Alone?

Harvard Business

On November 9, 2016, the shareholders of Australia’s largest company, and the world’s tenth-largest bank , revolted. Corporations are now taking a further step beyond objective metrics, which can be financial and nonfinancial, to include subjective measures — tagged as “soft.”

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How Self-Care Became So Much Work

Harvard Business

From these deep roots, the $11 billion self-improvement industry has grown. Today, like so much around us, that industry is heavily influenced by tech. It seems likely that the values driving us to be workaholics in the first place are also encouraging us to “optimize” ourselves by using metric-driven “hacks.”

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3 Ways M&A Is Different When You’re Acquiring a Digital Company

Harvard Business

The ultimate goal is to signal to the market that the digital acquisition is part of a series of moves that will help you adapt and win in the digitalization of your industry. In March 2016, Thales purchased Vormetric, the growing cybersecurity firm, for $400 million, which was 5.7 Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide.

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