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AlixPartners Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

AlixPartners is an international business advisory firm based in Southfield, MI known for its work in corporate turnarounds, bankruptcy assignments and restructuring. Generally regarded as turnaround market leaders, AlixPartners is doing a killer job at taking up more room in the consulting space by strategically hiring a plethora of gurus.

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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. ALVAREZ & MARSAL CULTURE. ALVAREZ & MARSAL INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING.

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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. Restructuring/Turnaround Services. FTI CONSULTING CULTURE. 1999: FTI Consulting began trading as a public company on the NYSE.

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Seabury Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Founded in 1995 by former Bain consultants and headquartered in New York City, they focus on developing airline strategy and implementing major operational turnaround. SEABURY GROUP CULTURE. INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. They recruit a lot of their staff that way. Seabury Group conducts interviews over two stages.

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Leaders Need Different Skills to Thrive in Tech

Harvard Business

A series of jarring experiences have taught you that: Your management authority is meaningless in a culture that worships engineers. Two of your most senior managers never do a lick of work—and are only on the payroll to keep competitors from recruiting them. A tenure of two years makes you an “old-timer.”

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7 Factors of Great Office Design

Harvard Business

An office environment reflects and reinforces a business’s core values, through the placement of different teams and functions and design elements that reflect culture, brand, and values. The scrappy functionality of the space culturally constrained their evolution from start-up to mature business.

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

Harvard Business

But CEOs at the best-run PE-owned firms we’ve worked with emphasize both recruiting and talent development. He quickly recognized that he had to institute a new strategy and culture. And they are quite selective of which individuals and which skills to invest in. That year TPG hired a new CEO, Andrew Hayek, to rebuild SCA.

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