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Breaking Down Case Interview Frameworks – M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions)

Management Consulted

Welcome back to the last in our series on breaking down case interview frameworks. Check out our breakdowns on Profitability , Market Sizing , and Market Study to become a complete expert on any kind of framework you’ll need in your case interview. This comes down to 4 key areas: – The Market.

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Management Consulting

CaseInterview.com

Rather than addressing the operational angle of how to do it, we address the bigger question of what to do. Let’s say a company is looking to relocate to a new market. They may hire a consultant to advise on ideas for gaining market share. With the scope of the problem clearly defined, you can begin framing your approach.

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Due Diligence by Management Consulting Firms

Tom Spencer

During one of my internships I worked on a due diligence project, which involved conducting market research to help a PE firm decide whether to acquire a major stake in a joint venture owned by one of the largest telecom companies in Asia. Table 1 – Framework for validating an M&A deal from a strategic and operational perspective.

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How to Turn Intangible Concepts into Tangible Services

The Fearless Marketer

This is the second of five articles about the 5 Pillars of Marketing, my marketing model that helps get your marketing on track. – Better cash flow. And then you turn the answers to those questions into a marketing piece, often called an “executive summary” that’s two or three pages long.

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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time.

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How to Turn Intangible Concepts into Tangible Services

The Fearless Marketer

This is the second of five articles about the 5 Pillars of Marketing, my marketing model that helps get your marketing on track. – Better cash flow. And then you turn the answers to those questions into a marketing piece, often called an “executive summary” that’s two or three pages long.

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

Harvard Business

While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex. But the other indicators probably pick up legitimate differences in how companies in the sample operate, as opposed to whether they are myopic. Are all share repurchases myopic?

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