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Desperate Times Call for Effective Turnarounds

BCG

Many transformation initiatives focus on improving a company’s financial and operational performance from “good” (or moderate) to “great”—that is, the company is already doing well in some or most areas, yet management still sees a need to make improvements. We refer to these as turnaround and restructuring efforts.

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The Consulting Value Proposition

Tom Spencer

Turnarounds. In an apparent attempt to stop McKinsey poaching key talent, AlixPartners sued its former employees (Eric Thompson, managing director of AlixPartners’ Hong Kong office, and Ivo Naumann, head of its Shanghai branch) on claims that they misappropriated trade secrets before they left the firm’s Asian operations.

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

FTI expanded into investigation and research capabilities as well as turnaround, restructuring, bankruptcy and forensic accounting with the moves. In 2005, the firm developed their first 5-year plan with a goal to double revenues from approximately $427M to $1B in 5 years. Restructuring/Turnaround Services. Litigation discovery.

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The consulting case study: What you need to know

freshminds

Here are some examples of different approaches across industries; Management Consulting : tend to use “operational” type case studies (more details below). Operational Cases: Operations Case, Increasing Sales, Reducing Costs, Improving the Bottom Line, Turnarounds. Is it for one store or all the stores?

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Private Equity’s New Phase

Harvard Business

These buy outs shifted agency from owners to managers; “corporate raiders” worked with high-yield debt to fund these turnarounds. a condo development, apartment building, or golf course). But the planned urban development PUD also has shared infrastructure and systems that enable the community to operate (e.g.,

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How to Get on the Shortlist for the C-Suite

Harvard Business

Every organization has a slightly different framework of expected experience, but I like to look at this through the lens of strategy and operations. Likewise, I know numerous chief HR officers who have done tours in business, operations, HR, and elsewhere. Formal C-suite advocates and senior sponsors are crucial, of course.

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All Hail Medium-Term Planning

Harvard Business

There is, of course, nothing wrong with the openness and transparency that lies behind quarterly reporting. Now a global giant in the drinks business, just 25 years ago, its precursor, Brahma, was a second-tier Brazilian brewer undergoing a painful turnaround in the hands of acquirer 3G, a São Paulo–based private equity house.