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Congratulations to Illinois: Most Government Bodies, Most Convicted Governors, Lowest Credit Rating

MishTalk

Local government is primarily financed through local property taxes, and Illinois’ high number of governments contributes to the state having the second-highest property tax rates in the nation. In comparison, the average cost to eight north and northwestern Chicago suburbs was $16,030 per mile.

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London School of Economics Postgrad Talks About Life At Deloitte

Management Consulted

Peter: When I was at Warwick, it was a massive feeder school into investment banking, and finance, but slightly less into consulting. The atmosphere itself, and the interview itself was very, very different in the fact that the big four in the UK in comparison to the MBB over here really focus a lot less on the case study.

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Digital Growth Depends More on Business Models than Technology

Harvard Business

Given that those companies were all venture-financed and emerged from Silicon Valley, you might assume that the key ingredients that have ensured their success were cutting-edge technologies, digital platforms, and customer bases that were chiefly made up of digital natives.

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Want Less-Biased Decisions? Use Algorithms.

Harvard Business

” Lastly, by looking at historical data on publicly traded companies, a team of finance professors set out to build an algorithm to choose the best board members for a given company. This is not an argument for algorithmic absolutism or blind faith in the power of statistics.

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A.T. Kearney Interview & Culture

Management Consulted

1997 – First Global Prize, an annual business school case study competition for potential recruits, awarded. Working anywhere from the strategy related to the business unit to corporate finance and strategy to strategic foresight, A.T. Firm hires 2,000th employee. Sustainability. For the most part, A.T. Beware – A.T.

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IBM Consulting Interviews: Navigating the IBM GBS Maze

Management Consulted

Although it started as a tiny group, paling in comparison to the bohemoth revenues of the firm’s hardware sales, this group is now known as IBM Global Services (IGS) which is responsible for 50% of IBM’s revenue globally. Finance Risk. Areas like finance, accounting, communications, HR and marketing. IBM GBS CULTURE.

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What Does an Aspiring Founder Need to Know?

Harvard Business

The second sample’s small size meant that comparisons were suggestive rather than statistically significant, but the survey responses of non-MBA founders were quite similar to those of MBA alumni founders. ” Finance is less important. Finance received the second lowest priority score of the 10 skills areas.