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IBM Consulting Interviews: Navigating the IBM GBS Maze

Management Consulted

As the next installment in our popular Firm Profile series, we take a look at the evolution, reinvention, and current interview tactics of one of the world’s premier consulting firms – IBM. Recognizing client’s needs for help managing IT operations and resources, IBM Vice President Robert M. Finance Risk.

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Towers Watson Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

The practice areas at Towers Watson reflect the operational nature of consulting projects at the firm: Communication and Change Management. Corporate Risk Management and Risk Financing. Employee Surveys. with over 54 offices in operation. TOWERS WATSON CONSULTING INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. Practice Areas.

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Due Diligence by Management Consulting Firms

Tom Spencer

These are outsourced by PE firms or corporate acquirers to a specialist adviser: lawyers for legal issues, accountants for auditing, and investment bankers for carrying out due diligence from a financing perspective. Table 1 – Framework for validating an M&A deal from a strategic and operational perspective.

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Currency Lessons: Think a Sinking Currency is Always Good For Manufacturers?

MishTalk

But recall what Brazil''s finance minister said on March 3, 2012 in a currency war declaration on the US: " When the real appreciates, it reduces our competitiveness. How can a business operate when the currency is on a free-fall?" How Can Businesses Operate in A currency Freefall? There''s theory and then there''s practice.

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Myths of the Gig Economy, Corrected

Harvard Business

Back in 2013, a much-touted survey suggested that by 2020 — just over a year from now — a whopping 40% of the workforce would be so-called contingent workers, a number that would include contractors, temps and the self-employed. Quinn Mills, a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, in an interview.

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: China Manufacturing.

MishTalk

Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. In what should be no surprise to Mish readers, the HSBC China Manufacturing PMI™ shows Operating conditions deteriorate at quickest pace since last September, and new export orders plunge. Operating conditions have now worsened for two successive months.

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What 20 Years as a Remote Organization Has Taught Us About Managing Remote Teams

Harvard Business

In his 1974 interview with ABC News , science fiction author Arthur C. More than 80% of our work is done by teams of consultants and staff who operate out of their home offices. By spending up to 42 hours researching and interviewing a given candidate, we take great care to ensure that we find and hire the right people.