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What Sales Teams Should Do to Prepare for the Next Recession

Harvard Business

In the 2001 recession, total sales for the S&P 500 declined by 9% from its pre-recession peak to its trough 18 months later—almost a year after the recession officially ended. We’ll focus here on what the sales organization should be doing now to prepare for the next recession, with an eye toward using new digital tools.

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Management Consulting versus Investment Banking

Management Consulted

I seriously considered sales & trading (in fact, I spent a summer at Credit Suisse First Boston in NY), and was tempted to continue in that line of work post-graduation. At the Big 3 (Bain, Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey), you can expect travel 50-75% of the time. Interested in sales & trading?

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2014 List of Strategy Consulting Firms in Sydney

Tom Spencer

Bain & Company. Founded in 1973 when Bill Bain and others left BCG to form Bain & Company. Bain has 50 offices worldwide including Sydney, Singapore, Hong Kong, Bombay, New Delhi, Johannesburg, London, Toronto, New York, and San Francisco. The firms on the 2014 list are: Nous Group. Pacific Strategy Partners.

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Strategy and general business consulting firms in Australia

Tom Spencer

Bain & Company. Founded in 1973 when Bill Bain and others left BCG to form Bain & Company. Bain operates in 47 offices across 30 countries. In Ausralia, Bain operates out of Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. I came online looking for coys for benchmarking,what i got is pleasant and very useful.

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Brews, News and Booz & Company: Interview and Culture Insights

Management Consulted

In reality, McKinsey, Bain, and Boston Consulting Group are tied for first, so Booz & Company is a close 2 nd place. They travel quite a bit, but their hours are slightly less than BCG or McKinsey and on par with Bain. So you have a Booz & Company interview coming up, and you want to be the best candidate they see? In the U.S.