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Management Consulting versus Investment Banking

Management Consulted

The cons of investment banking – the long hours, the repetitive and unengaging nature of the work, the lack of non-finance exit opportunities – mattered far more to me than a 6-figure salary. This expertise may be as broad as “operations turnaround” and as specific as “benchmarking for insurance companies.”

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A Simple Way to Map Out Your Career Ambitions

Harvard Business

You’ve not only been a great marketer in one region, but proven that you can lead marketing when you have a new team, in a turnaround situation and in a different geography. from their articles in trade magazines, on lists of speakers at relevant conferences, or from referrals of leaders in your company. Request an interview.

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We Interviewed 57 Female CEOs to Find Out How More Women Can Get to the Top

Harvard Business

” Backgrounds in STEM, business, finance, or economics are a launchpad for female CEOs. Forty percent of the female CEOs started out with some technical expertise in STEM, and close to 20% started with a background in business, finance, or economics. That conversation was a bit of a wake-up call.”

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Iceland Ponders Radical Money Plan Including Elimination of Fractional Reserve Lending and Deposit Insurance

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The proposal, which would be a turnaround in the history of modern finance, was part of a report written by a lawmaker from the ruling centrist Progress Party, Frosti Sigurjonsson, entitled "A better monetary system for Iceland". But money differs from other commodities in one essential fact.