Martinka Consulting

APRIL 26, 2019

More businesses sold after being advertised on bizbuysell.com than any other year, and 2017 was 25% higher than 2016. It’s not reckless money like it was 15 years ago but financing options abound, including for lower middle market and below sized deals. Record number of small business sales in 2018! This as per bizbuysell.com.

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

Companies acquire to accelerate their overall strategy and digital transformation, as Publicis Groupe did when it acquired Sapient for $3.7 Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Let’s start with financing the deal.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 7, 2015

What made you decide to pursue a career in strategy consulting? Tom: Marakon is a leading strategy consulting firm. You would be expected to manage the junior client interactions for example working with the finance or marketing team, and be given opportunities to present work to senior business leaders.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 17, 2023

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are key growth strategies for many organizations: entering new markets, acquiring new technologies, or leveraging scale and size. UNDERSTANDING THE LOCAL CULTURAL CONTEXT Today many industries and organizations operate on a global scale. Organizations become known by their culture.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 13, 2016

Will 2016 be another record year? Mega-brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev has tested investor appetite for a potential blockbuster bond offering later this week, as the group lines up financing for its $108bn takeover of rival SABMiller. The deal includes rights to the Miller brand name and gives Molson Coors full control of operations.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2016

Digital transformation halts, or fails, for many reasons—but most often it’s because minor changes at the surface level do nothing to affect the fundamental operations of a company. Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of GE, started off 2016 by saying : “We can’t be an industrial company anymore. We need to be more like Oracle.

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2018

In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.”

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

That’s the research firm IDC’s estimate of the size of the big data market, worldwide, in 2016. trillion , IBM’s estimate of the yearly cost of poor quality data, in the US alone, in 2016. ” Senior executives hedge their plans because they don’t trust the numbers from finance.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Investment in AI is growing and is increasingly coming from organizations outside the tech space.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 20, 2017

Home Run Media, a media agency that helped its clients plan and carry out their marketing strategies, had been operating for more than a decade when a key client in the fantasy sports industry began to grow rapidly, thanks in part to Home Run’s work and to a healthy dose of venture capital that was fueling its growth.

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Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2017

Almost 400,000 Uber drivers in California and Massachusetts reached a $100 million settlement with the company in 2016 (a settlement that was later thrown out by a federal court as insufficient in the compensation it provided the claimants). All of these issues rushed back to mind recently when the political leadership at the current U.S.

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

and European companies restricting their presence in Iran or exiting the market altogether — and they continue to dampen foreign direct investment prospects in 2016. sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. Iran presents an important opportunity for multinational companies that operate in emerging markets.

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MishTalk

MARCH 1, 2015

The city’s credit quality could weaken as unfunded pension liabilities grow and exert increased pressure on the city’s operating budget,” Moody’s analysts Matthew Butler and Rachel Cortez wrote. “ billion operating budget and is required by an Illinois law to boost the 2016 contribution to its police and fire pension funds by $550 million.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2018

“The venture capital model works well when the primary risk is finance risk — as the entrepreneurial team works to scale their business model — but it doesn’t work so well when technological risk and market risk coincide,” Errol Arkilic, an investor that specializes in hard tech ventures, told me.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2017

In such a system, employers protect workers from many of the vagaries of market forces; they take a longer-term perspective on firm performance, and favor corporate strategies that necessitate a stable, well-trained, and loyal workforce. There was also variation in whether these capital investments led to workforce reductions.

Marketing 28

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 2, 2018

” Even if you cannot change your circumstances, “you might be able to change the microenvironment in which you operate.” If these strategies don’t have their desired effect, it could be a sign that you need to make a dramatic move , Johnson says. Finances were a consideration. It was held last August.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 21, 2013

Finance reported General Motors to close Australian plants by 2017 Auto giant General Motors said Wednesday it will close its Holden plants in Australia by 2017, prompting Toyota to review its operations as unions warned the car industry was finished. It''s a very bleak day indeed."

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MishTalk

APRIL 1, 2015

Chicago finances are even worse than I thought which is saying quite a bit because I have written about the sorry state of Chicago finances on numerous occasion. Many of these uses of bond proceeds are not eligible for tax-exempt financing under the federal tax code." The Corporate Fund is Chicago’s general operating fund.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. Matthew Eyring , Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer of Vivint Inc.

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MishTalk

JULY 16, 2015

The district also is facing a $1 billion operating deficit. Short Synopsis: A report by Nuveen shows a pension payment spike looms in 2016, and the potential tax hike to fix it is staggering. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Eli Schragenheim is a respected expert in organizational improvement and strategy, celebrated for his deep knowledge of the Theory of Constraints (TOC). Eli’s innovative approaches and insights continue inspiring professionals and organizations worldwide to achieve operational excellence. This is the “integration effect.”

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Tom Spencer

JULY 6, 2019

The idea that technology can be configured to drastically improve the delivery and usability of finance began taking off following the financial crisis of 2008, when consumer distrust for traditional banks combined with the increasing popularity and functionality of smartphone apps. Kagan, Julia (2019) What is Fintech?

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

As surface transportation’s peak period ends for the year, and trucking eyes the traditionally slowest time for the industry as first quarter 2016, economic signals are, at best, mixed. Operating revenue decreased 15.9 Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 7, 2023

The purpose includes creating value for customers, investing in employees, dealing fairly with suppliers, and supporting the communities where corporations operate. Leaders must be able to operate both within and upon the organization's culture. Leaders need to be able to operate within and upon an organization's culture.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Stung by a series of risky foreign adventures that came back to bite them, most large global banks in Europe and the United States have retreated from foreign operations. Of course, the retrenchment of global finance also reflects pressure on banks from regulators and shareholders to rebuild their capital and liquidity.

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CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

While it sometimes seems that everyone wants to get into the top 3 strategy consulting firms McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), and Bain & Company (Bain), also known as MBB , it's worth noting that there are several other top consulting firms that can give a career a real boost. PricewaterhouseCoopers (Strategy&).

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Harvard Business

MARCH 24, 2017

One is profits — cryptocurrency investors made some massive returns in 2016, with cryptocurrencies from Blockchain startups Monero and NEM both seeing 2,000% increases in value. ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S.

Finance 38

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Intense pressure from the $719 billion Medicare program on the finances of U.S. About three-fourths of short-term acute-care hospitals lost money treating Medicare patients in 2016, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), an independent agency established to advise the U.S. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 17, 2013

A Financial Times analysis of the full banking union resolution process for a lender operating in three countries reveals the labyrinthine procedure that would still be required to wind up a bank. At the heart of the disagreement is what to do when so-called bank resolution funds, financed by the banking sector, run out of money.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Moving from “top-down” valuation to “bottom-up” The default valuation method for finance professionals is “top-down” in nature. Their revenues grew by over 100% in 2016. For example, they may create revenue forecasts that use inputs such as macroeconomic trends for key demographic segments.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2017

It wasn’t until I moved to Paris in 1997 to become Finance Manager for Disney Consumer Products Europe, Middle East, and Africa that I experienced someone setting a non-negotiable boundary for herself. You can verbally communicate this with your team, role model it, and create organizational operating principles around it.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

It’s time for them to rethink their supply-chain strategies. In 2016, that gap was down to about 1 percentage point. Such a policy alone could have a major impact on companies operating in the United States. There are three reasons a rethink is due: East Asia’s shrinking cost advantage. Take the idea of a U.S.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2017

After all, most financial intermediaries themselves rely on a dizzying, complex, and costly array of intermediaries to run their own operations. This industry supports a number of intermediaries, such as investment bankers, exchange operators, auditors, lawyers, and crowd-funding platforms (such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo).

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MishTalk

APRIL 6, 2015

The 1953 Iranian coup d''état was the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran Mohammad Mosaddegh on 19 August 1953, masterminded by the United States under the name TPAJAX Project and backed by the United Kingdom under the name ''Operation Boot''. Now, people b h we cannot trust Iran.

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MishTalk

MARCH 3, 2015

Pretend that the Chicago Public Schools don''t have to find $688 million in pension payments in fiscal 2016. Turning over all the tax increment financing, or TIF money, that has been salted away won''t do it. Promises of "operating more efficiently" are hollow. Keep them open, but don''t ask how to pay for them.

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