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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. Financial due diligence involves a lot of financial modelling ( DCF , LBO , NAV ) and deal structuring. Image: Pexels.

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5 Research-Based Strategies for Overcoming Procrastination

Harvard Business

A while back, I took a year to experiment with every piece of personal productivity advice I could find. In becoming hyperaware of how I spent my time, I noticed something: I procrastinated a lot more often than I had originally thought. Your Team’s Time Management Problem Might Be a Focus Problem. Staying Focused.

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How to Reduce Primary Care Doctors’ Workloads While Improving Care

Harvard Business

While some aspects of care clearly require doctor and patient to be in the same place at the same time, many demonstrably don’t. However, this approach piled more responsibility on an already-taxed primary care system and was inefficient because it didn’t reflect the do-it-yourself trends observed in retail, travel, and finance.

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What the Data Says About Women in Management Between 1980 and 2010

Harvard Business

Does this stalled revolution play out in management positions, too? To explore this, I used data on full-time managers obtained from the U.S. Female managers are concentrated in fields that emphasize people-centered caring skills, while men are concentrated in fields dealing with production-centered skills.

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Help Your Team Achieve Work-Life Balance — Even When You Can’t

Harvard Business

It wasn’t until I moved to Paris in 1997 to become Finance Manager for Disney Consumer Products Europe, Middle East, and Africa that I experienced someone setting a non-negotiable boundary for herself. But so did my peers, whether or not they had children, partners, or aging parents. It was just the industry and firm norm.