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Walmart Won’t Stay on Top If Its Strategy Is “Copy Amazon”

Harvard Business

Walmart does need to shore up its e-commerce capabilities, but its attempts to out-Amazon Amazon aren’t a winning strategy. In comparison, Walmart.com sells “only” 15 million items — and just 2 million of them are available for the free two-day shipping. Lore himself described free shipping as table stakes.

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2016 Top 10 U.S. MBA programs for Management Consulting

Management Consulted

In contrast, this year 28 graduates accepted offers from Bain, 26 from BCG, 20 from Deloitte, and an additional 18 went to PwC/Strategy& The average starting base salary for a Kellogg 2015 grad entering consulting was over $133,000, with an average signing bonus of over $27,000. With that in mind, we compiled the 2016 Top 10 U.S

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The 4 Dimensions of Digital Trust, Charted Across 42 Countries

Harvard Business

The regulations will also, no doubt, inform data protection laws and corporate trust-building strategies elsewhere. Fanatic Studio/Getty Images. The year 2018 is barely underway and, already, digital trust initiatives have captured headlines. But is it possible to measure digital trust and compare it across countries?

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

market for latex condoms. Recently, Mayer Laboratories sued Church and Dwight, Trojan’s parent company, for illegally monopolizing the market. The prize for best answer was a FREE Consulting Case Bank and The Consulting Bible 3rd edition – a HUGE giveaway – so we weren’t surprised when we heard from so many of you.

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IBM Consulting Interviews: Navigating the IBM GBS Maze

Management Consulted

Although it started as a tiny group, paling in comparison to the bohemoth revenues of the firm’s hardware sales, this group is now known as IBM Global Services (IGS) which is responsible for 50% of IBM’s revenue globally. In 1991, IBM approved a new world-wide services strategy to make IBM a world class services company by 1994.

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3 Reasons Global Firms Should Keep Investing in India

Harvard Business

While India remains a formidably challenging market, there are at least three reasons why global firms cannot overlook India without consequences. This means significant growth potential for multinationals who have core competencies in high-tech infrastructure solutions such as jet engines, turbines, CT scanners, and satellite communications.