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Lessons Learned from a German EMBA

Tom Spencer

In the fall of 2015, after spending two years in a small town in the Ruhr Valley starting to learn German (I will appreciate Mark Twain’s perspective on the sprache so much better going forward), I moved to Frankfurt to begin my Executive MBA at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management. the answer is super simple.

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Taking Greater Risks to Enjoy Greater Rewards with David Baker: Podcast #14

Consulting Success

David focuses on finances, benchmarking, performance, and positioning of firms, as well as PR, advertising, and more. A successful entrepreneurial enterprise yields profit consistently, while those who find that they are constantly having cash flow problems are, in reality, the ones that are having legitimate business problems.

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Pettis on Strains in China's Banking System; Avoiding the Fall

MishTalk

While the benchmark deposit rate was officially lowered from 3.00% to 2.75%, the upper limit that banks can pay for deposits remained unchanged at 3.30%. It may seem strange to have both a benchmark rate and a “floating range” that establishes a cap, instead of just setting a cap, as was the case until very recently.

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Australia's Alleged Conservatives Surrender to Unions; GM Australia vs. GM US; Currency Madness Everywhere

MishTalk

Labor Party heavy and former ACTU secretary Greg Combet is one of the appointees - he is going to advise on enterprise bargains with the unions. For 20 years, regardless of the legislation, about half of our companies have been incrementally enterprise bargaining themselves into bankruptcy, while the other half have not.

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2014 List of Strategy Consulting Firms in Sydney

Tom Spencer

BCG partners with clients from the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors in all regions to identify their highest-value opportunities, address their most critical challenges, and transform their enterprises. Website: mckinsey.com. Founded in Chicago in 1926, McKinsey is arguably the world’s most prestigious consulting firm.

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Strategy and general business consulting firms in Australia

Tom Spencer

Accenture offers management consulting services covering finance & performance management, talent & organisation performance, strategy, customer relationship management, and supply chain management. I came online looking for coys for benchmarking,what i got is pleasant and very useful. Website: www.atkearney.com. Oliver Wyman.

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5 Questions That Will Help You Stay Ahead of Your Disruptors

Harvard Business

They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation. Brutally put, the 21st-century enterprise challenge has morphed from “doing more for less” to “creating much more with much less.”