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List of strategy consulting firms in London

Tom Spencer

Alpha is a leading global provider of consulting, benchmarking and implementation services to financial institutions with a particular focus on the asset and wealth management industries and the companies that service them. A&M specialises in turnaround and interim management, performance management and business advisory services.

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The First Step to Fixing U.S. Manufacturing

Harvard Business

In fact, MGI analysis of financial data shows that large publicly traded US manufacturing firms, most of them multinationals with revenues greater than $500 million, averaged returns on invested capital of 22% from 1997 to 2013. As a group, the largest U.S.

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Private Equity’s New Phase

Harvard Business

These buy outs shifted agency from owners to managers; “corporate raiders” worked with high-yield debt to fund these turnarounds. This phase was loosely called leverage buy out (LBO) from about 1979 to 1990 and included over 2,000 LBOs. Leaders were driven by short-term profits and rapid action to flip the organization.

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