Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Cryptocurrency has often been a divisive and controversial topic in the world of finance and economics. These articles concern the present and the future of cryptocurrency. I’d like to take a step back and present the topic in a different way, through the lens of economic history.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Spain and France Deficit Violations Both Spain and France have constantly pushed back goals to meet stated targets. France announced on Wednesday it was breaking the latest in a long line of promises to European Union partners to cut its public deficit, conceding it now would take until 2017 to bring its finances in line with EU rules.

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Martinka Consulting

JANUARY 18, 2019

About 150 people heard about our featured topic of management buyouts & buy-ins from our panel and our presenters, Tom Varga, founder of CFO Selections, and Kevin Briscoe, CEO. Financing options, the bank and more. On November 13 I was part of a panel presenting at Seattle U as part of their Family Business program.

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ConsultX

AUGUST 10, 2021

You can meet the challenges, reclaim your life, and grow your business at the same time. By business owners, for business owners, Conquer the Chaos enables you to reevaluate your approach, revitalize your operations, and realize the freedom and success your hard work deserves. But take heart! Conquer the Chaos shows you how.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 7, 2018

Consultancy has the power to open doors where no doors are present. Instead, he took on a job at the Parthenon Group as a principal consultant where he worked on a variety of strategic and operational improvement projects. Morey’s tale is only one of the more unique and interesting paths taken by former consultants in the world today.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Rapidly-changing work demands can preclude retraining the regular workforce, so organizations meet critical and fast-changing capabilities by tapping into alternative work arrangements, often blending work arrangements. Yet HR leaders and operating managers were not aware of the reality revealed by the data.

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Emerson Consulting Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Coming up with each new payroll has been terrifying him more and more as each deadline demands yet another inventive solution for meeting that period’s payday. No one under him has served as the top officer of an operation as large as his, and no one outside the company comes to mind as someone he can turn to and confide in.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Treasurer Joe Hockey said after a federal Cabinet meeting in Canberra on 22 October that the country will increase its debt limit by A$200bn (US$193bn, £120bn, €141bn) to A$500bn. Australia''s debt is only about 30% of its gross domestic product (GDP) at present, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

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1 to 1

JUNE 16, 2022

This article first appeared in the Customer Strategist There’s a fundamental shift happening when it comes to customer experience, both in expectations and capabilities, but too many brands aren’t prepared to meet the moment. Meet people’s emotional needs. Do an honest assessment of the customer experience operating model.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

While I was working with them, the focus of my PhD gradually shifted toward how economic integration and various factors (domestic, international, political, economic) have impacted Japanese companies’ corporate strategy and operations over the past couple of decades. Neither did I have the communication skills to make it as a salesman.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

Business students have traditionally considered net present value, payback period, and hurdle rates as necessary tools to determine which project to select. They believe that they can always raise financial capital to meet their funding shortfall or use company stock or options to pay for acquisitions and employee wages.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

In these times of fiscal discontent and protests by Brussels, the expected improvement of public accounts in France in 2014 and 2015, the government had to be reassuring about the traditional collective fiscal year-end synopsis presented on Wednesday. of GDP, higher than the 1.6% estimate anticipated at the end of 2012.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

The tiny company brought major changes to the presentation of technical courtroom evidence using computer models built with a simple yet powerful goal in mind – to help jury members understand the technical merits in law cases. Corporate Finance/Restructuring. 1999: FTI Consulting began trading as a public company on the NYSE.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

It failed to meet its revenue and subscriber growth targets. Investors, therefore, look not just for reported revenues but for drivers behind the revenues, especially because digital companies’ operating activities often differ from their revenue-generating activities. What caused this slump?

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Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2017

She distilled the notes about her many accomplishments into an overview of the 10 years in her current role: Keep University’s School of Design (eight graduate programs) running flawlessly for Director, other staff, faculty, and students — during routine operations and emergencies. Equally adept at managing people and operations.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 17, 2023

As designed, this white paper presents a clear picture of the organizational culture and, ultimately, a leader’s role in leading culture harmonization for the merger or acquisition. UNDERSTANDING THE LOCAL CULTURAL CONTEXT Today many industries and organizations operate on a global scale. REFERENCES Cameron, K. & Quinn, R.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 15, 2018

Before presenting our study, some context is helpful. Nonetheless, statistics show that women-owned businesses, which account for one-third of Swedish businesses, are not granted the corresponding proportion of government venture financing; in fact, women-owned businesses receive only 7%.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 29, 2018

operating rooms, recovery floors, emergency department), and ancillary departments (e.g., Consider, for example, a surgical patient who starts in the pre-operative area, then moves to the operating room, the post-anesthesia care unit, and the inpatient floor, with occasional side trips for imaging, testing, and physical therapy.

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Emerson Consulting Group

APRIL 4, 2019

Retirement benefits thoughtleader Dan Cassidy makes it a practice to show up at every sales meeting with a briefcase filled with reprints of his many published articles. No one under him has served as the top officer of an operation as large as his, and no one outside the company comes to mind as someone he can turn to and confide in.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2016

The latest nuclear reactor designs, promising higher safety, longer operating life, and lower operating costs, cost up to $25 billion after factoring in the huge budget overruns. This all presents CEOs with a tough dilemma. Model 1: Virtual operator. Model 2: Asset capacity pooling.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 18, 2015

Now known to be THE best sourcing, procurement and operations consulting firm in the world, A.T. Operations. Kearney works collaboratively with companies to transform their operations in order to gain unprecedented competitive advantage. Mir Aamir - Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer, Coupons.com.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2018

Telecom operators often provide the backbone communication networks required to run systems and applications. Companies that want to serve them directly often have to think outside the box when it comes to financing. In other cases, smart city projects present opportunities to generate advertising revenue and branding.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 7, 2015

I had a few friends working in consulting and started talking to them and going to the careers fairs and presentations. You would be expected to manage the junior client interactions for example working with the finance or marketing team, and be given opportunities to present work to senior business leaders.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Other enterprises and their functions are looking to leverage technology to optimize and augment existing operations. But disruption also breeds cultural tensions — as the digital ambitions of the enterprise conflict with longtime operating objectives and create competing priorities that employees don’t know how to balance.

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Confessions of a Consultant

OCTOBER 21, 2018

Back in my GE days, the Finance Director was skeptical about the merits of the HR function which he labeled the ‘Health and Happiness Department.’ When there are big ‘presenting issues’ in an organization it’s relatively easy to ride in on a white horse, complete your diagnosis and ‘fix’ the place. Ensuring HR adds real Value.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2018

” This occurs at the individual level — a level that managers are presented with day after day. The task of a strategic planning team is to produce positions on these factors that deliver value to the organization’s key stakeholders and meet the objectives of the organization. But this isn’t strategy either.

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Emerson Consulting Group

JANUARY 31, 2019

Operating in this manner, you will no longer feel a need to shoehorn all the features, bells and whistles into the conversation. These will often heighten your efficiency as to who should be considered a worthwhile prospect to meet with at all, thereby increasing each sales call’s likelihood of success.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2017

This brings order to the chaos of initiatives and provides a clearer basis for narrowing down priorities and managing the cross-functional interdependencies that the best digital solutions often present. Consider how General Electric arrived at the decision to develop and launch its Predix cloud-based industrial operation system.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 16, 2018

That year, as management tried to coordinate all the operating details across all the divisions, the company almost went bankrupt when poor planning led to excess inventory, with unsold cars piling up at dealers and the company running out of cash. He had each of the divisions start systematic strategic planning.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2016

Love is like an operating system. What is more, love doesn’t replace the functional elements of strategy, finance, sales, product development and HR. Rather we propose it as the idealized operating system of an organization – let’s call it LoveOS. The great thing about love is that it is always present.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. A great salesperson will operate much more efficiently with a defined process for reaching out to prospects. We made a number of operational changes to the call center.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 24, 2017

While we would be naive if we didn’t acknowledge politics as a potentially destructive force, when deployed effectively it can help the company meet its strategic goals and live up to its values, especially during organizational change. However, political behavior is also likely to be present, but not explicit, until it is too late.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Historically, the arrival of an audit team at a site was preceded by the “hiding of bodies” and the alignment of key messages by the site team, to present a united, protected front. Every organization has functions that wield a disproportionate amount of power — the typical suspects are finance, procurement, and audit.

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Harvard Business

MAY 2, 2016

Mindfulness meditation — the practice of cultivating deliberate focused attention on the present moment – has caught on as a way to bring focus, authenticity, and intention to the practice of leadership. Take mindful moments: One simple approach is to integrate straightforward mindfulness activities into meetings and retreats.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 7, 2014

In 2000, the group launched its first website, www.bridgespan.org, and started operations from a Boston-based office. Presentations. Tierney came on board as the third co-founder in 1999 and stepped aside as Bain’s CEO in 2000 to focus on Bridgespan. Their services emphasized analytical consulting. Nonprofit Job Board.

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CaseInterview.com

APRIL 30, 2019

At other firms, they often go to the client for meetings, to conduct interviews, gather data, etc. This was not a deliberate choice, but I had the interest in the sector, I wasgood in certain aspects related to the finance industry, I liked my colleagues in that sector, and they and my clients liked me a lot.

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MishTalk

APRIL 1, 2015

Chicago finances are even worse than I thought which is saying quite a bit because I have written about the sorry state of Chicago finances on numerous occasion. Kristi Culpepper, a bond guru, has gone over Chicago''s annual financial report, bond documents, investor presentations, and CAFRs. Who Is Kristi Culpepper?

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