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Frameworks for the Case Interview (Part II: Mergers and Acquisitions Framework)

Tom Spencer

The reason that this framework is worth introducing is due to the increasing frequency of M&A cases confronting candidates in the case interview. There are three main valuation methods you can use to estimate the value of the company: Discounted Cash Flow , Comparable Companies , and. Comparable Transactions.

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Coronavirus & Consulting Offers

Tom Spencer

The travel and hospitality industries have been decimated, stock markets around the world have tanked, and governments struggle to combat this devil on so many fronts. They just went through, at great expense, the interviewing and hiring of a new “class” of undergraduate consultants. Commerce has ground to a halt. Today, not so much.

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Economies of Scope - Tom Spencer consulting blog

Tom Spencer

With the Euro-zone at the brink of collapse, governments and business leaders may be well advised to revisit basic concepts like ‘economies of scope’. More stable cash flows are attractive for three reasons. Secondly, a strong cash position can also be used to extend credit to customers and thereby increase sales.

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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business

Immediately after joining Nikon, he decided to interview some of them. Thanks to the analysis, Nikon could identify and then interview past investors to understand the reasons they had purchased and then sold their Nikon shares. What he heard was uncomfortable.

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Let Go of What Made Your Company Great

Harvard Business

Under License Raj, the Indian government licensed and tightly regulated domestic businesses while excluding foreign competitors. “That was a major turning point,” Mahindra said in an interview I did with him for a new book, The Three Box Solution. ” Create win-win incentives.

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Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation?

MishTalk

What Has Government Done to Our Money? So refraining from any forecast of what will happen in the near term, it’s sufficient to observe that the economic data is not nearly as strong as widely perceived, and the impact of QE on stock prices does nothing to improve the underlying cash flows. This Week in Money Interview.

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

MishTalk

Kristi Culpepper is a state government official with the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Previously, she worked for the Kentucky General Assembly analyzing state and local government bond issues and tracking the state''s capital construction programs. This fund is used to pay for essential government services and activities (e.g.