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Honing and Highlighting the Consulting Skillset

Tom Spencer

For instance, many Oxford students participate in the Oxford Strategy Challenge, which is a mini consulting experience that allows students to work in teams to develop solutions and recommendations for a real business or local organisation.

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2016 ECS Value Creators Report: Building Endurance

BCG

lthough the engineering, construction, and services (ECS) industry continues to lag substantially behind the broader market, a doom-and-gloom outlook is by no means warranted. The industry’s median five-year average annual total shareholder return (TSR) of 3.2% Report Wednesday, October 26, 2016.

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Housing Starts in China Plunge 25%; Did China's Property Bubble Finally Burst?

MishTalk

Economic data released on Tuesday also included a deceleration in industrial production, with growth in steel and cement output slowing to a crawl. Add related sectors, such as steel, cement and other construction materials, and the figure is closer to 16 per cent. Prices are falling for both new and old apartments.

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business

How did we get here, and what does it mean for the industry? That deal sent the price of Brent crude oil to above $70 a barrel in January, after the industry that had suffered through $54 per barrel oil on average in 2017. The news is all good for customers, but it makes planning for the industry players much more difficult.

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Let Go of What Made Your Company Great

Harvard Business

As United Rentals, the largest equipment rentals company, shifted its strategy to focus more on national customer accounts, it faced a huge forgetting challenge; branch managers needed to forget the fiefdom mentality. While these core businesses continued to generate cash flow, IBM struggled to find The Next Big Thing.

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We Can’t Study Short-Termism Without the Right Metrics

Harvard Business

Similarly, considering greater accruals (which represent the difference between reported income and operating cash flows) to measure short-term orientation has its difficulties. It assumes that a smaller proportion of cash flows in earnings indicates a myopic firm. Are all share repurchases myopic?

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Shockingly Bad Fiscal Health of Chicago (and the Financial Engineering Chicago Uses to Hide that Fact)

MishTalk

Previously, she worked for the Kentucky General Assembly analyzing state and local government bond issues and tracking the state''s capital construction programs. Guest Post I mention the above to prove Culpepper is highly regarded in the industry. She has also worked at Merrill Lynch. She knows what she is talking about.