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Desperate Times Call for Effective Turnarounds

BCG

We refer to these as turnaround and restructuring efforts. Sales numbers may be stable, or even growing, yet profitability has begun to decline. Very often, management has tried a new strategy, or several, without success. (In Sales are now stagnating or declining, while profit margins turn markedly negative.

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Management Consulting versus Investment Banking

Management Consulted

The cons of investment banking – the long hours, the repetitive and unengaging nature of the work, the lack of non-finance exit opportunities – mattered far more to me than a 6-figure salary. Banking salaries average 50-100% higher than consulting salaries , with the difference increasingly significant as your seniority increases.

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List of strategy consulting firms in Hong Kong

Tom Spencer

List of strategy consulting firms in Hong Kong 2011. List of strategy consulting firms in Hong Kong. OC&C Strategy Consultants. Roland Berger Strategy Consultants. Applied Value offers strategy, finance, and operations management services. Definitions. Helpful Links. in Management Consulting. IMS Health.

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The consulting case study: What you need to know

freshminds

Different industries need to test different skills and therefore depending on whether you’re applying to management consultancies, strategy consultancies or investment banking, your case study will be slightly different. Strategy Consulting : tend to use “strategic” type case studies (more details below).

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Consultant Ninja: Finally, two counter-cyclical markets: Management.

Consultant Ninja

After seeing so many markets down, my cousin in the hunting business informed me that gun sales have been surging, due to Obama winning the presidency. The other sector Im long on is turnaround consulting: 10-13-08. I am a strategy consultant at. Finally, two counter-cyclical markets. WaMu made a motion to designate William C.

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Getting Old, Getting Stagnant, and That’s Trouble

Martinka Consulting

German business-chamber association DIHK says 73% of senior managers, “haven’t assembled the basic documents needed for a handover, such as power of attorney, supplier and client information, bank-access data or a will.” When the son took over the business they shed operations that were half of their sales and staff.

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Bad News: You Have to Grow to Pay Your Debt

Martinka Consulting

One of the most interesting comments was: “To help pay back debt amassed in the deal-one of the biggest-ever overseas transactions by a Japanese company-Suntory is trying to double global spirits sales by 2020. Banks have ratios, guidelines, and regulators. Hitting that goal won’t be easy. So who lends on deals like this?