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Coronavirus: Analysis, Conclusions & Takeaways

CaseInterview.com

In my analysis, the three most constrained and “at-risk" resources in the medical system are ventilators, regular and intensive care hospital beds, and medical staff. As a result, social distancing is the only tool available to combat the virus. In short, my conclusion after all of this research and analysis is simple: Stay Home.

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How does your consulting business stack up? Take our 16th Annual WIC Best Practices Survey (open March 14-April 7) and find out.

Women in Consulting

:: A comprehensive analysis of the state of consulting businesses in the Bay Area Yes, it’s that time again. Over the years, it’s offered useful insights into the evolution of Bay Area consulting businesses, such as billing and marketing tool trends, consulting expertise and specialties, structure and operations.

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In the Best Sales Teams, About Half of the People Are in Support Roles

Harvard Business

In our analysis, the top companies had a 15% lower average cost per sales employee than their peers. Our analysis shows that the highest-performing companies have a ratio of nonmanagers to managers of around 8:1. Among lower-performing companies in our analysis, the ratio was greater than 10:1 or lower than 5:1.

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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. These costs are significantly higher for U.S.

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Why the Insurance Industry Can’t Risk Overlooking Artificial Intelligence - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM COGNIZANT

Harvard Business

An example is The North Face, which is experimenting with its Fluid Expert Personal Shopper tool, powered by IBM’s Watson, to provide customers with a more intuitive search experience through a natural language capability. Read more from Cognizant: What Consumers Want Online Now from Their Health Care Plans.

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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. But for phase three (buy and transform), financial discipline is not an event, but a pattern; strategic clarity is not a direction, but a commitment; operational excellence is not a tool, but a mindset.

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MC Coach Interview: My First Year at McKinsey

Management Consulted

I spent my first day on an actual project using power tools because we were doing bottom up costing for different products. It’s rapid deadlines and very quick turnarounds. That means a lot of the analysis in Excel and production of PowerPoint pages happened at night. How was settling in at McKinsey for you?

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