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Why CEO’s Hire Consultants and Coaches: The REAL Value They Bring with Brad Rex

Consulting Matters

He applied for a financial manager job at Disney and was one of 1400 candidates. Brad had an unconventional start to his career after meeting his boss's boss while studying finance at college. He talks about his exciting career journey, which started at the Naval Academy, then to British Petroleum, and finally to Disney.

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AlixPartners Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

AlixPartners is an international business advisory firm based in Southfield, MI known for its work in corporate turnarounds, bankruptcy assignments and restructuring. Generally regarded as turnaround market leaders, AlixPartners is doing a killer job at taking up more room in the consulting space by strategically hiring a plethora of gurus.

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7 Critical Success Factors for Project Based Firms to Consider in 2024

Progressus

CSFs can literally be anything — whether it’s improving customer satisfaction, increasing revenue, reducing operating costs, or something specific to a particular project or deliverable – making them somewhat difficult to identify – let alone define in concrete terms. Are project operations, sales, customer service, etc.

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Student Consulting ? Does it deliver?

Tom Spencer

This may include discrete projects completed at arms length, such as due diligence on a transaction, or turnaround projects where consultants are embedded within an organisation. Perhaps a legal or financial qualification, or accreditation in an industry standard.). Or, on which of your client’s issues can you speak with legitimacy?

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Sample Consulting Case Questions

Tom Spencer

The company missed the trend towards touchscreen smart phones and has fallen into serious financial difficulty. Operations. It is currently summer, and Cabana is having trouble meeting demand. A leading financial services company is trying to reduce operating expenditures. Turnarounds. Competitive Response.

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

They entered the financial disputes business with the acquisition of Klick, Kent and Allen, Inc. FTI expanded into investigation and research capabilities as well as turnaround, restructuring, bankruptcy and forensic accounting with the moves. Restructuring/Turnaround Services. Valuation & Financial Advisory Services.

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Case Study: Can You Fix a Toxic Culture Without Firing People?

Harvard Business

She’d gone to Arkansas to review operational plans and financial projections for the rest of the year with the team on the ground. FB Holdings had made it through the financial crisis of 2008 without losing money—but the climate control systems divisions, a Tier 1 automotive supplier, had not fared as well.