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Saving RadioShack

Tom Spencer

When the business landscape changes, how can you turnaround a failing company? Assuming this leads to successful refinancing, what should the strategy be to turnaround and save this iconic company? When faced with a broad turnaround question, it is important to ask a variety of questions to determine the source of the problem.

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PARADE Method

CaseInterview.com

The PARADE Method (tm) is an approach to answering resume-oriented job interview questions. It is an approach I developed that is tailored for answering these questions in job interviews for management consulting, as well as interviews for senior executive positions in industry. Interviewers want to know what you did.

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The consulting case study: What you need to know

freshminds

Consider how they make money, do they follow an “operational improvement” model (a more strategic approach) or do they follow a “financial engineering” model (an investment banking approach). Operational Cases: Operations Case, Increasing Sales, Reducing Costs, Improving the Bottom Line, Turnarounds.

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How Volvo Reinvented Itself Through Hiring

Harvard Business

Volvo’s turnaround over the last decade offers a great example. “Technically, cars today are very different from ten years ago,” says Sällström, whom we interviewed for our book, Talent Wins. “Once, you needed mechanical engineers. He was creative and, in some cases, counterintuitive.

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The Decline of Yahoo in Its Own Words

Harvard Business

Plenty of theories have been put forth to explain Yahoo’s failures, as the company seeks a buyer following a failed turnaround attempt. One of the most prominent is that Yahoo was late to mobile. “Looking now I think it’s fair to say Yahoo was late to the game. That said, it was a very dramatic shift in company focus.”

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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. We then interviewed more than a dozen U.S. As the interviews progressed, we developed seven categories that captured similar challenges. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders.

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

Harvard Business

Since 2009 we have interviewed and surveyed 181 executives who run PE-owned companies, as well as eight to 15 people who work with each of these 181 executives (supervisors, board members, director reports, and others). But that set off the field engineers’ alarm bells. In fact, management consultancy Bain & Co.

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