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Alvarez & Marsal Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

This Firm Profile started as an email from Sean, asking if we could write on Alvarez & Marsal, “The Turnaround Guys”. The firm’s first turnaround client was the household brand, Timex Corporation. Turnaround and Restructuring. Corporate Governance. ALVAREZ & MARSAL CULTURE. ALVAREZ & MARSAL KEY STATS.

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

FTI CONSULTING INTERVIEWS & CULTURE. FTI expanded into investigation and research capabilities as well as turnaround, restructuring, bankruptcy and forensic accounting with the moves. There are also 3 board committees within the company: the Audit committee, Compensation Committee and Nominating and Corporate Governance.

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7 Critical Success Factors for Project Based Firms to Consider in 2024

Progressus

CSFs can literally be anything — whether it’s improving customer satisfaction, increasing revenue, reducing operating costs, or something specific to a particular project or deliverable – making them somewhat difficult to identify – let alone define in concrete terms. Are compliance/governance rules working? Read on to learn more.

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Private Equity’s New Phase

Harvard Business

A silent, seismic shift has dramatically altered corporate ownership and business governance globally. These buy outs shifted agency from owners to managers; “corporate raiders” worked with high-yield debt to fund these turnarounds. Leaders were driven by short-term profits and rapid action to flip the organization.

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PE Firms Are Creating a New Role: Leadership Capital Partner

Harvard Business

This third phase has led to large private equity organizations governing their assets in a unique way. In phase 3, successful portfolio transformations require financial discipline that is not an event, but a pattern; strategic clarity that is not a direction, but a commitment; operational excellence that is not a tool, but a mindset.

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How to Turn Around a Failing School

Harvard Business

Academies have devolved decision-making powers, bypassing local government.). Operated in regions with different levels of competition and access to resources. We could analyze the effects of 58 types of investment, on 18 performance measures over time, in 160 academies operating in 18 different regions. So what did we find?

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A Transformation Is Underway at U.S. Veterans Affairs. We Got an Inside Look.

Harvard Business

In the end, a combination of unattainable objectives, an environment that lacked transparency, and a culture where failure was not perceived to be a viable option, led some VA administrators and clinic staff to manipulate data to make it appear as though the wait time goal was being achieved.

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