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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. Highlight what your role was, and how you worked with and contributed to the team.

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What is Your Real Income

Martinka Consulting

I’m working with a private equity firm to find add-on HVAC, plumbing, electrical, or refrigeration companies for their plumbing construction firm in the Seattle area (so if you know of any doing at least $5 million in sales who want an investor let me know). This means expenses for: A CEO at fair market salary.

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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. Japan and China are robust markets for ECS value creation. Infrastructure construction companies continue to outperform.

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

MishTalk

China’s real estate market correction — some economists are even calling it the popping of a bubble — is partly the result of a deliberate decision by the country’s leaders in Beijing. Retail sales also grew more slowly than expected in April, and the furniture market stalled as fewer families moved into new homes.

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

Harvard Business

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market.

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Chinese Malls Hit With Low Traffic, Rising Vacancies, Plunging Rent, Massive Overcapacity

MishTalk

Less foot traffic means cash flow of mall owners and developers are getting squeezed - a potential hazard for an economy growing at its slowest pace in decades. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction.

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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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