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Coronavirus & Consulting Offers

Tom Spencer

The travel and hospitality industries have been decimated, stock markets around the world have tanked, and governments struggle to combat this devil on so many fronts. The larger firms like Bain, BCG, and McKinsey kept their promises. Commerce has ground to a halt. As the world goes mad, what will you be doing this summer?

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Consultant Ninja: A Simple Question about the Credit Markets.

Consultant Ninja

Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. A Simple Question about the Credit Markets. AJ: I totally agree that it massively shift market share from the sick banks to the healthy banks. Tuesday, March 31, 2009.

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5 Ways to Increase Your Cross-Selling

Harvard Business

In the past, marketers have struggled to deliver the higher response rates they need from existing customers — a smaller group than potential new customers. Digital channels now allow companies to fine-tune marketing messages based on observed behavior. For example, Bain & Company’s recent analysis of the U.S.

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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business

He asked one former major investor for a reaction to the company’s prediction (accompanying poor quarterly results): “that the [current] market contraction will bottom out soon and our profits will improve.” ” The company took note and duly committed to reducing costs at a rate exceeding market contraction.

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What If Companies Managed People as Carefully as They Manage Money?

Harvard Business

Today’s executives spend a lot of time managing the balance sheet, despite the fact that it doesn’t represent their company’s scarcest resource. According to Bain’s Macro Trends Group, the global supply of capital stands at nearly 10 times global GDP. Vincent Tsui for HBR.