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

Tom Spencer

As a result, many consultants shift to industry and join the client’s side so that they can not only offer solutions but also take more ownership to formulate, execute, and implement a strategy from start to finish. BizOps / Strategy & Operations at tech firms. Corporate Strategy. What is corporate strategy?

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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

This is not about ego; it is about building an exit strategy in order to get a higher selling price. 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. The icing – the top three.

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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).