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Bad News: You Have to Grow to Pay Your Debt

Martinka Consulting

Banks have ratios, guidelines, and regulators. Sears was in the headlines because they are running out of cash as their turnaround is failing. The bottom line is, if like Suntory, you have to significantly grow the company to cover your debt, well, you paid too much. So who lends on deals like this? Nobody in my market!

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How to Pass the McKinsey Problem Solving Game

CaseInterview.com

The second is a strategy + adapting to new data mini-game. To win McKinsey’s digital assessment game Solve, focus on these strategies: Remember the skills being tested. McKinsey’s Solve game is designed to show how well you can turn a pile of data into actionable and successful strategies. And the third is cause vs. effect.

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An Ebola Outbreak Has Just Been Stopped. Here’s What It Tells Us About Containing Epidemics.

Harvard Business

GeneXpert, a lab-in-a-box that automates PCR, a diagnostic technique that ordinarily requires specialized laboratories that take weeks to set up, were deployed to new hot spots within days and reduced the turnaround time for testing from days to hours. Additional strategies are needed for dealing with such scenarios.