freshminds

MARCH 5, 2018

Different industries need to test different skills and therefore depending on whether you’re applying to management consultancies, strategy consultancies or investment banking, your case study will be slightly different. Operational Cases: Operations Case, Increasing Sales, Reducing Costs, Improving the Bottom Line, Turnarounds.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 2, 2015

Operations. A leading financial services company is trying to reduce operating expenditures. CanadaCo, the largest discount retailer in Canada, currently holds the dominant market share in the industry. Turnarounds. Should it sell rockets to competitors? What should they do with it? What should the company do?

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Consulting Turnaround Case Interview Retail 60

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

Compared to its peers, FTI Consulting is a youngster in the consulting industry. Luczak pioneered solutions at the intersection of law, communications and technology that affected not only the cases he was involved in, but the industry itself. Dispute, litigation and investigations services for construction industry.

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Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Alpha is a leading global provider of consulting, benchmarking and implementation services to financial institutions with a particular focus on the asset and wealth management industries and the companies that service them. A&M specialises in turnaround and interim management, performance management and business advisory services.

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BearingPoint Capgemini Strategy& Strategy 99

Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Established in 1989, Accenture operates in more than 120 countries worldwide. Founded in 1983, A&M operates in 38 cities worldwide. A&M is an independent global professional services firm which provides leadership, problem-solving and value-creation services to companies across the industry spectrum. Address: Accenture.

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Oliver Wyman Strategy& Strategy Strategy 107

ConsultX

AUGUST 10, 2021

A one-stop turnaround plan, Conquer the Chaos lays out a complete path to make your business run smoothly and provide you with the freedom you desire. 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.

Consulting 52

Consulting Small Business Video Ethics 52

Management Consulted

JUNE 14, 2015

Founded in 1995 by former Bain consultants and headquartered in New York City, they focus on developing airline strategy and implementing major operational turnaround. Industries. All of your clients are in the same field, so the chances of interacting with people outside of the industry are greatly reduced. Our advice?

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Groups Interviews Culture Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2017

Sears Holdings has indicated that “substantial doubt” exists about its ability to continue operations. Analysts say that Sears may still have time to stage a turnaround. Alan Mulally led the turnaround at Ford by restoring a “One Ford” mentality throughout his company and championing pride in the Ford name.

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Turnaround Retail Airlines Apparel 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

What she learned informed her strategy for the turnaround, which she then communicated through a series of town halls, roundtables, and memos. ” And she restored the company’s profitability — the turnaround was a success. “The response was overwhelming,” Mulcahy said. “Defection slowed to a trickle.

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Turnaround How To Survey Enterprise 28

Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2016

By looking at detailed sales data from 40 companies in technology-related industries, we have identified guidelines for the optimal amount and type of sales support and management. This includes all non-quota-carrying roles in the organization: customer-facing support, sales operations and administration, and sales management.

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Sales ROI Efficiency Operations 42

1 to 1

JUNE 1, 2021

It streamlines operations and frees customer-facing employees up to focus on more meaningful interactions with customers. Industries that can particularly benefit from automation run the gamut: retail, healthcare, automotive, government, communications, travel and hospitality, financial services, and insurance.

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Software Turnaround Automotive ROI 26

Harvard Business

AUGUST 9, 2016

In phase one (buy and sell), PE investors looked for the equivalent of a “fixer-upper house” — a dilapidated company in a good industry that could be purchased at a discount and, after the business equivalent of some fresh paint and new appliances, resold for a profit.

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Talent Real Estate Financial Operations 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

A few outlier industries (notably pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and computers) prop up the sector’s aggregate performance; most others have experienced flat growth or outright declines in real GDP over the past two decades. kevin phillips/Getty Images. These costs are significantly higher for U.S. But the future trajectory of U.S.

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McKinsey Turnaround Pharmaceuticals Benchmarking 28

Business Consulting Agency

JANUARY 23, 2024

Operational Inefficiencies: Mistakes in operational processes can lead to inefficiencies, wasted resources, and increased overhead costs. Drawing from diverse industry experiences, they offer insights that help businesses navigate potential pitfalls. Rebuilding trust is often a long and arduous process.

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Consulting Turnaround ROI Case Studies 52

1 to 1

AUGUST 18, 2021

To better understand this, let’s explore the 5 retail strategies that are defining the industry and unlocking success on all fronts. With post-pandemic online shopping increasing and deals running longer and earlier, consistent quality and service levels are essential to keep operations running smoothly and customers happy.

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Retail Strategy& Strategy Strategy 26

Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

The private equity industry has a clear understanding of the importance of the medium term. The beauty of the PE industry model is that it does not succumb to the travails of the short term or the dreams of the future. A key feature of the turnaround, led by CEO Marcel Telles, was avoiding a hopelessly long-term view.

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Turnaround Report Company Construction 34

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 16, 2008

3) Business knowledge – typically broad exposure across different topics like strategy, operations, organization and several areas where you’ll have expertise. This expertise may be as broad as “operations turnaround” and as specific as “benchmarking for insurance companies.” 4 NETWORKING.

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Banking Boston Consulting Group Consulting Management 272

Harvard Business

JUNE 15, 2017

Leading a turnaround requires much more than making a splash. The rules of the game are not clear, individual and organizational success are over-determined, and leaders operate in a complex, abstract and symbolic world where their actions and decisions are not always easy to track.

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Turnaround Leadership Case Studies Case Study 28

Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2016

The research involved conducting and coding 88 in-depth behavioral event interviews of leading change with 65 leaders, spread across multiple industries and from across five continents. We all went to Uganda [one of their key operations]. “We started meeting in each other’s homes every few months. We traveled together.

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Culture Turnaround Interviews Hotels 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

A turnaround subsequently lowered strategic stress to a productive level by discontinuing many of their seemingly unrelated projects, re-focusing on their core business, as well as streamlining operational processes that improved coordination activities. Strategic Boredom (not enough strategic stress).

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Strategy& Strategy Strategy Turnaround 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 11, 2017

In phase 3, successful portfolio transformations require financial discipline that is not an event, but a pattern; strategic clarity that is not a direction, but a commitment; operational excellence that is not a tool, but a mindset. Once a firm is acquired, the LCP often facilitates the transformation process.

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Leadership Talent Culture Turnaround 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

And yet without Box 2, organizations don’t truly transform; they persist in limiting ways of operating. Our industry does not respect tradition—it only respects innovation.” In our work, many leaders tell us that Box 2—destroy the obsolete—is the most challenging; they find it hard to let go of the past.

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Company Culture Turnaround Productivity 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

When a private equity firm adds a new company to its portfolio, analysts rigorously size up its financial, operational, and competitive condition. This July Founders Equity sold OSI to Jordan Industries. In fact, management consultancy Bain & Co. Selectively developing top team members to accomplish the strategy.

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Company Engineering Turnaround System 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Prior to landing the top job, female CEOs in the study worked in a slightly higher number of roles, functions, companies, and industries than men leading companies of a comparable size. In essence, the women worked harder and longer to get to the same place. Some women expressed frustration about the delay.

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Interviews Benchmarking Case Interview Talent 28

Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2016

And he reinforced what he could offer hiring companies — elevating them to the #1 position in their respective industries. This next story is told by a health care EVP/COO who’s planned and executed several turnarounds of large hospital systems. Résumé story details. BREWERY START-UP. FUTURE START-UPS.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2016

While some situations demand outside successors — such as a turnaround or a discontinuous shift in the industry and strategy – we believe that internal candidates remain the future CEOs-of-choice. Choosing a CEO is a high-stakes proposition, arguably the most important decision a board can make. Insight Center.

Leadership 28

Leadership Talent Turnaround Benchmarking 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

After studying and working with hundreds of companies in free fall, we’ve identified concrete steps that leadership teams can take to engineer successful turnarounds and transformations. Since Knudstorp took over, Lego’s revenues have increased by 400%, and its operating profit margin has increased from -21% to 34%.

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Company How To Turnaround Engineering 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Great stories are credible, simple, consistent, and use both financial and nonfinancial metrics to link a long-term vision and firm values with a distinctive business strategy and focused operational priorities. ” Bertolini and his team studied the industry and concluded that a reasonable target was no more than 6% EPS.

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Metrics Study Financial Operations 33

Harvard Business

APRIL 16, 2018

For one, he is not waiting for industries to request protection. A short turnaround between product announcement and tariffs means countervailing political forces have little time to mobilize. It means businesses operating in the United States have much less time to mitigate the tariffs’ negative impacts.

Strategy& 28

Strategy& Strategy Strategy Turnaround 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2016

employees, customers, free agents, communities we operate in) and so much more. Voser was impatient for a new experience which attracted him to ABB and there he learned a whole new level of turnaround leadership. the one-click mobile purchasing app), it is the means through which we get work done (e.g.,

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Development Leadership Talent Agile 28