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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

A finance executive said this of the decades-old corporate attitude, “We are GM. A global IBM study found that 33% of CEOs had engineering degrees and another 15% had finance degrees. Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group of four hundred companies, has built a large organization on this very principle.

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List of strategy consulting firms in London

Tom Spencer

Applied Value Group. Boston Consulting Group. Cambridge Strategic Management Group. The Hackett Group. Parthenon Group. Applied Value Group. Address: Applied Value Group. Applied Predictive Technologies. Bain & Company. BearingPoint. Booz & Company. Cedar Management Consulting. Roland Berger.

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Asset Management – Valuation (Part 2 of 4)

Tom Spencer

This metric is more widely used by the financial institutions group (FIG), investment bankers, or the corporate development teams of banks for precedent transactions analysis. The outperformance of the asset manager versus its benchmark – which can be looked at as alpha generated. Image: Pexels.

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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. but also because I am Peter Drucker ’s niece).

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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. At the Big 3 (Bain, Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey), you can expect travel 50-75% of the time. 3 SKILL DEVELOPMENT.

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How People Analytics Can Help You Change Process, Culture, and Strategy

Harvard Business

The diversity of local accounting rules precluded perfect standardization, and the geographic dispersion of the teams made it hard for the transformation group to gather information the way they normally would — in conversation.

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$550 Billion Energy Junk Bond Bubble Busts; "Whac-A-Mole" Distortions in Multiple Markets

MishTalk

The Fed’s decision to keep benchmark interest rates at record lows for six years has encouraged investors to funnel cash into speculative-grade securities to generate returns, raising concern that risks were being overlooked. CJES), postponed financings this month as sentiment soured. And this is a mania.” percent this week from 5.7

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