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Alvarez & Marsal Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

One example is when the New York School’s system hired them to boost the efficiency of their school bus network, which they did, saving the city $12M. This Firm Profile started as an email from Sean, asking if we could write on Alvarez & Marsal, “The Turnaround Guys”. Turnaround and Restructuring. Practice Areas.

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

FTI CONSULTING INTERVIEWS & CULTURE. FTI expanded into investigation and research capabilities as well as turnaround, restructuring, bankruptcy and forensic accounting with the moves. Restructuring/Turnaround Services. Too much of this sort of thing leads to a company full of different cultures, ideas and value systems.

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We Interviewed 57 Female CEOs to Find Out How More Women Can Get to the Top

Harvard Business

We then conducted a series of in-depth individual interviews, delving into pivotal experiences in their personal history and career progression, and using Korn Ferry’s executive online assessment to measure key personality traits and drivers that had an impact. Women could be ready for the CEO role sooner. But what else did you do?

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Improve Your Resume by Turning Bullet Points into Stories

Harvard Business

But for the most part, recruiters aren’t calling. And on the rare occasions when you do land an interview, you stumble over questions about what you’d bring to the hiring company and why you’re the perfect fit. So how can you make your resume, profile, and interview more effective? Interviews.

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Leaders Need Different Skills to Thrive in Tech

Harvard Business

Two of your most senior managers never do a lick of work—and are only on the payroll to keep competitors from recruiting them. We then interviewed more than a dozen U.S. As the interviews progressed, we developed seven categories that captured similar challenges. A tenure of two years makes you an “old-timer.”

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The Mistakes PE Firms Make When They Pick CEOs for Portfolio Companies

Harvard Business

Since 2009 we have interviewed and surveyed 181 executives who run PE-owned companies, as well as eight to 15 people who work with each of these 181 executives (supervisors, board members, director reports, and others). Mistaking quick thinking for systems thinking. In fact, management consultancy Bain & Co.

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Research: How the Best School Leaders Create Enduring Change

Harvard Business

Our study of the actions and impact of 411 leaders of UK academies found that only 62 of them managed their turnaround successfully and sustainably transformed their school. And we interviewed the leaders and their teams to understand the challenges they faced, when they occurred, and how they overcame them.