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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. Restructuring/Turnaround Services. Key Learning Courses are: New Employee Orientation. Leadership Forums. 1999: FTI Consulting began trading as a public company on the NYSE.

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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. But just as rental houses are often given minimal maintenance, leaders of acquired firms brought in only the minimum leadership necessary.

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Marissa Mayer’s Departure from Yahoo and the Challenge of Drawing Lessons from an N of 1

Harvard Business

With that luxury in our hands now, here are some critical leadership lessons we can draw from Mayer’s tenure as CEO of Yahoo. Too often when we evaluate leadership performance, we fail to distinguish between the leader’s personal success and the success of their companies. Experience (still) matters.

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Organizations Can’t Change If Leaders Can’t Change with Them

Harvard Business

” This reflects an endemic lack of self-awareness in leadership, and the costs are significant. When we dig into the roots of a leader’s unproductive behavior, we look for what we call the “operative narrative ,” the “tape” playing at an unconscious level that’s driving unwanted behavior.

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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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How Companies Escape the Traps of the Past

Harvard Business

” This is a framework I have developed over the course of 35 years of working with and doing research in corporations around the world. And yet without Box 2, organizations don’t truly transform; they persist in limiting ways of operating. Now it’s less than 15 years. So, how do you build Box 2 muscle?

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The Mistakes PE Firms Make When They Pick CEOs for Portfolio Companies

Harvard Business

When a private equity firm adds a new company to its portfolio, analysts rigorously size up its financial, operational, and competitive condition. With the firm’s once-rapid growth having slowed to a crawl, the PE company decided the best course was to sell the firm. In fact, management consultancy Bain & Co.

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