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Transitioning from Management Consulting to Corporate Strategy/M&A – the Interview Process

Tom Spencer

BizOps / Strategy & Operations at tech firms. According to the Ivey Business Journal it has two parts: Improving the competitive strategies of operating units by capturing inter-divisional synergies; and. BizOps / Strategy & Operations at Tech firms. Corporate development. Corporate Strategy. Conclusion.

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Financial Shenanigans Versus Incompetence

Martinka Consulting

The Wall Street Journal and others recently reported about an accounting expert who had predicted the Madoff Ponzi scheme and recently went after GE for what he said are their deceptive accounting practices (of course, GE responded this person didn’t know what he was talking about).

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Growth by Acquisition Isn’t for Everybody

Martinka Consulting

Buying another company, assimilating it into your operation, and showing that the combined profits are greater than the two individual companies’ profits demonstrates to potential buyers that this can be done. It proves you have the team that can integrate one operation into another.

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CEO Oasis: Relief for “Loneliness at the Top”

Emerson Consulting Group

For months now, Steve has been struggling over cash-flow problems with no solution in sight. No one under him has served as the top officer of an operation as large as his, and no one outside the company comes to mind as someone he can turn to and confide in. As part of his ongoing column in Money Inc.

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Strong Economy – Strong Buy-Sell Market

Martinka Consulting

Wall Street Journal – The greatest transfer of wealth in history will occur in this country over the next decade; an estimated $10 trillion is expected to change hands, and much of this wealth is tied up in family businesses. Cash flow is king (they don’t require full collateralization, but will take as much as they can).

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Subscription Businesses Are Booming. Here’s How to Value Them

Harvard Business

In a paper recently published in the Journal of Marketing , we show that using some clever statistical methodology, we can predict these drop-off patterns almost as well with highly aggregated data as we could with rich, granular data. the absolute size of the customer base and the number of customers acquired each quarter).