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Management Consulting versus Investment Banking

Management Consulted

Consulting compensates with perks that banking does not offer – from better travel allowances to more generous health and retirement packages. Consultants – depending on firm – travel anywhere from 25-75% of their time. Consultants – depending on firm – travel anywhere from 25-75% of their time.

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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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How Agile Teams Can Help Turnarounds Succeed

Harvard Business

Agile — the management approach that relies on small, entrepreneurial, close-to-the-customer teams — has a reputation that reflects its rapid adoption in software development. It is most definitely not for big, old-line companies that are facing an existential crisis and require a full-scale turnaround.

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Coronavirus: Analysis, Conclusions & Takeaways

CaseInterview.com

With the media, stock markets, and social media going crazy over the topic, I spent a lot of time digging into the data to develop my own conclusions. I’m trained for urban search and rescue, wilderness search and rescue, emergency medical response, basic life support, and mass casualty events.]

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How to Overcome Executive Isolation

Harvard Business

For example, when James Wolfensohn first became president of the World Bank, in 1995, he went on fact-finding trips to developing countries to understand the kinds of projects that the bank was doing. After several visits he realized that he was only being shown successful projects, smiling villagers, and grateful government officials.

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Leading Across Cultures Requires Flexibility and Curiosity

Harvard Business

When I was heading Organization and Management Development at Pepsi International, I would encourage our international executives to study local comedy shows. The research involved conducting and coding 88 in-depth behavioral event interviews of leading change with 65 leaders, spread across multiple industries and from across five continents.

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