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AlixPartners Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

AlixPartners is an international business advisory firm based in Southfield, MI known for its work in corporate turnarounds, bankruptcy assignments and restructuring. Generally regarded as turnaround market leaders, AlixPartners is doing a killer job at taking up more room in the consulting space by strategically hiring a plethora of gurus.

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Saving RadioShack

Tom Spencer

When the business landscape changes, how can you turnaround a failing company? Assuming this leads to successful refinancing, what should the strategy be to turnaround and save this iconic company? When faced with a broad turnaround question, it is important to ask a variety of questions to determine the source of the problem.

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

FTI CONSULTING INTERVIEWS & CULTURE. FTI expanded into investigation and research capabilities as well as turnaround, restructuring, bankruptcy and forensic accounting with the moves. Restructuring/Turnaround Services. FTI CONSULTING CULTURE. 1999: FTI Consulting began trading as a public company on the NYSE.

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Seabury Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Founded in 1995 by former Bain consultants and headquartered in New York City, they focus on developing airline strategy and implementing major operational turnaround. If you’re applying to work at The Seabury Group, book an interview prep session with Michael here. SEABURY GROUP CULTURE.

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Small Steps or Big Steps: What’s the Right Way to Begin Improvement?

Markovitz Consulting

He describes his “shock and awe” approach (my terminology) in his excellent book The Lean Turnaround , where he takes the company through several week-long kaizen events. To be sure, there is some up front training, but the emphasis is on starting the lean journey with kaizen events. You build your way up to those levels.

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How Volvo Reinvented Itself Through Hiring

Harvard Business

Volvo’s turnaround over the last decade offers a great example. “Technically, cars today are very different from ten years ago,” says Sällström, whom we interviewed for our book, Talent Wins. Developing what we call an “M&A strategy for talent” is one way to overcome this.

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As Work Changes, Leadership Development Has to Keep Up

Harvard Business

Consider how IBM has tackled new ways of work distribution as described in Lead The Work: Navigating a World Beyond Employment , a book which one of us, Ravin, co-authored. Voser was impatient for a new experience which attracted him to ABB and there he learned a whole new level of turnaround leadership.