Harvard Business
MARCH 31, 2017
If you’re not a numbers person, finance is daunting. Stop avoiding finance because you’re afraid of numbers. Think of it this way, “Finance is the way businesses keep score. “Finance and accounting are very simple. .” “Finance and accounting are very simple. Overcome your fears.
Rick Conlow
JANUARY 2, 2023
Consider GM as a case study. 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. CEOs focus on data, facts, figures, and metrics. Even today, GM has record recalls.
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Management Consulted
APRIL 3, 2016
As a prospective consultant, one of the things that can seem the most mysterious in the case study prep process is wondering what the interviewer is going to ask you next. Many of you have heard about interviewer-led and interviewee-led case interviews and are wondering how to approach each one appropriately.
Business Consulting Agency
JANUARY 23, 2024
Case Studies: The Tangible Impact of Business Consulting Financial Turnaround: A struggling manufacturing company sought the expertise of a business consultant to address financial challenges. The impact on finances, reputation, operations, and missed opportunities underscores the need for precision in decision-making.
Harvard Business
AUGUST 31, 2018
To look into this question, I conducted a case study as part of my dissertation research involving 23 women of color at a Fortune 500 company. They were employed in midlevel to upper-midlevel management positions in strategy, finance, marketing, legal, operations, and technology functions. What made their ascent possible?
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 20, 2018
CRMs today also serve a lot of masters, from executives in the C-suite, technology, marketing, finance, and, oh yeah, sales. The EVP of sales liked the easy-access dashboard to report on metrics and the forecast. They try to address more objectives than are reasonable for any software system.
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 19, 2017
Likewise, what is the right set of metrics that company executives should use to manage their subscription businesses in order to hold themselves fully accountable to their stakeholders? Case Study: Blue Apron. The majority of the disclosures they provided at the time were standard top-down metrics (e.g.,
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