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The consulting case study: What you need to know

freshminds

Investment banking case studies are a lot more quantitative and tend to focus on reading financial statements and based on a corporate finance deal e.g. a company going public on the stock market. 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. Its cars didn’t match up well with those of top luxury brands like Mercedes, BMW, and Audi, yet the company lacked the capacity to compete with mass-market leaders like Toyota and GM. For years, Volvo was a brand stuck between a rock and a hard place.

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The Connection Between Employee Trust and Financial Performance

Harvard Business

Doug identified “Inspiring Trust” as his number one mission in his 10-year turnaround of Campbell Soup Company, where his efforts resulted in cumulative shareholder returns in the top tier of the global food industry, and among the highest measured employee engagement levels in the Fortune 500, particularly with his leadership team.

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"Bubblicious" High End Flipping Up 350%, Overall Flipping Down 13%

MishTalk

Flipping houses went out of fashion around 2008, along with flip phones and sub-prime mortgages. For the market as a whole, flips of single family homes fell 13% in the third quarter, according to new research from RealtyTrac, with investors earning a gross profit of nearly $55,000 on each property.

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How to Pass the McKinsey Problem Solving Game

CaseInterview.com

This will allow you to move through the creation of a system in a linear fashion. How do you produce the fastest turnaround time for new orders given a certain number of employees in a work shift? How do you create the greatest stock market value while taking the least risk? So a bottom-up approach works.

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants: is it just me.

The Crazy Lives of Consultants

We also provender the cheapest prices on the market. Not solitary do we have the unexcelled prices but our turnaround heyday for your Xrumer posting is wonderful fast. It was previously sold as Fastin from King Pharmaceuticals for SmithKline Beecham, however in 1998 it was removed from the market.