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Consulting Case Interviews at Non-Consulting Firms

Tom Spencer

As such, I’ve increasingly seen case interviews being used to recruit for corporate strategy roles in all sectors and business operation (“BizOps”) roles at startups. Thus, you will spend time ingraining key concepts like the MECE principle , honing your mental math and learning fundamental economics, finance and accounting ideas.

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

We recently completed a study for the CEO of a very well known, global sports-apparel brand company. The pressure on large companies in today’s equity markets is enormous, with expectations they will continue to produce outsized returns as PE ratios climb daily. Country and Market Units (P&L, and some infrastructure).

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Can Lean Manufacturing Put an End to Sweatshops?

Harvard Business

Workers specialize in simple, highly routinized operations. They are incentivized to complete operations as quickly as possible. However, until recently there was little evidence on this question in the countries that dominate global markets in low-cost manufacturing. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center.

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Currency Lessons: Think a Sinking Currency is Always Good For Manufacturers?

MishTalk

But recall what Brazil''s finance minister said on March 3, 2012 in a currency war declaration on the US: " When the real appreciates, it reduces our competitiveness. How can a business operate when the currency is on a free-fall?" How Can Businesses Operate in A currency Freefall? There''s theory and then there''s practice.

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Maximizing Agility and Leverage in the Global Organization

Kates Kesler

This is especially true in developing markets where competitors can move very quickly with few of the obstacles that big companies face. Business leaders have long been intrigued with the idea of reducing hierarchy, putting greater emphasis on networks, and empowering decisions closer to the market. The global/local tension.

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Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?

Harvard Business

These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. It is tough to beat the market and over long periods of time indexing has been shown to outperform most active managers. But what’s the role of investors?

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How Digital Leaders Get the Right Work Done - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM WORKFRONT

Harvard Business

What they realize is that they’ve always treated finance and financial management as a tier-one asset. And we’re seeing these business leaders of tomorrow they’re really championing a new operating model of work. Let’s say it’s an apparel company, right. They will design a product faster.

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