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The Pacifica Group specializes in driving revenue growth
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Nicholas Carr's Blog: Management Theory, Debunked

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"An awestruck Henry Adams spent two weeks exploring the treasures of Chicago's 1893 Columbian Exposition, but he was most deeply affected by seeing a display of electric dynamos - two 800-kilowatt General Electric machines, the largest available at the time, and a dozen of the latest Westinghouse generators. He recalled the experience in his autobiography The Education of Henry Adams.

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World Consulting Group

World Consulting Group

World Consulting Group is a rather unique consulting firm. Our philosophy rises out of long experience of our founder. After long term consulting career, our founder decided that an exclusivity concept is ripe to be introduced to the consulting world. Our target audience is composed of those firms that seek quality rather than quantity and price.

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KM Consulting

KM Consulting

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Expand Abroad Consulting

Expand Abroad Consulting

Blog for Expand Abroad Consulting, a marketing and business management consulting firm. I will post business problems and my solutions here from time to time. Note - when I talk about issues for specific companies, I will not be posting company or people's names.

Ashutosh Bose's Consulting Blog

Ashutosh Bose's Consulting Blog

This BLOG is synonymous to Business. The Blog discusses the nuances of Business.Marketing,Finance,HR,Operations and something which is important to the core,STRATEGY AND MANAGEMENT.

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- in partnership develop a robust action plan to address the immediate concerns and the causes of those concerns

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Consulting Magazine

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Successful Consultants

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About One Successful Consultant

I left school at the age of 18 with no real qualifications and I grew up in a depressed welsh mining town in a working class family. I’m now 43 and after traveling in almost 70 countries and living in 10, I’m now based in the stunning city of Prague.

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A Consultant's Blog

A Consultant's Blog

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Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog

Curious Cat Management Improvement

Focused on Deming’s ideas, lean manufacturing (lean thinking), six sigma, customer focus, systems thinking, Toyota Production System (TPS) and innovation.

New readers might want to try our popular posts or view the posts by category (at the top of each category page some recommended posts are highlights) - listed on the left of this page.

The author of this blog is John Hunter.

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Global Leisure Insights from Ray Algar

Ray Algar

This is the web log for Ray Algar of Oxygen Consulting, a UK-based management consultant providing strategic marketing insight to organisations serving the global leisure industry. Let me help your organisation to flourish. I am available for consulting assignments, article commissions and speaking engagements. You can e-mail me here or call me on +44 (0) 1273 885 998.

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DAW Consulting blog

DAW Consulting Blog

Business Mentor, business consultant, part time finance director, interim FD, non-executive director (NED)services from DAW Consulting for SME business owners.

Gautam Ghosh - Management Consultant

Gautam Ghosh Management Consultant

Points of view about Organizations, Work and People.

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Guerrilla Consulting

Guerrilla Consulting

Michael McLaughlin is the coauthor of Guerrilla Marketing for Consultants, and principal with MindShare Consulting LLC, a firm focused on providing innovative marketing, sales, and operations solutions to professional service providers.

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Over a quarter of a million management consultancy readers browse and contribute to Top-Consultant.com each month. Now you can too! This blog is intended for practising consultants, aspiring consultants and consultants' clients.

BLT Management Consultancy Blog

BLT Management Consultancy Blog

Beament Leslie Thomas is one of the leading niche, specialist recruiters. We work in the areas of Management Consultancy, Direct and Indirect Tax, Company Secretarial and Human Resources. We have the expertise and experience to find the right people for your organisation, as well as to give sound advice and guidance when it comes to your next career move.

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  • I'll be 21 years old when I start my full time position at a BB in September, in a city I've only ever been to once where I know nobody. As I'm finishing my degree I'm getting really cold feet about this, I still feel very young. I see guys in suits on the train and can't...
    Too young?
  • does anybody have a shipping model or any idea where i can get info on how these companies are...
    shipping
  • I was wondering how computer-savvy ( leaving aside Excel/PowerPoint skills) you need to be to do well in consulting? Assuming you have an assignment where you need to help a company improve its IT Strategy, are you screwed if you dont know how to code or if you havent taken ANY CS classes in...
    Computer Skills
  • Incoming SA at a BB. Just wondering, does it typically go straight into the 80-100 hours or gradually pick up (maybe a week or so)? Obviously training aside, but once you're actually working....
    How Quick Does It Pick Up?
  • So I stared looking for an internship in late April (I know). The first interview that I got was with Wolters Kluwer for an internal controls internship. They offered me the internship at the end of the interview. I had no other offers on the table, it was mid-May, and they're paying me, so I...
    Wolters Kluwer Internship
  • Hi, I am currently a junior in college and I am interested in pursing a career in management consulting or investment banking. Which internship seems more beneficial in terms of my desired career path: 1) Operations Internship at a Fortune 500 biotech company vs. 2) Commercial banking...
    Operations Internship vs Commercial Banking Internship
  • I'm curious to as what websites / free sources are available to stay up to date on the oil and gas industry. I have a subscription to WSJ and try to read their Energy column daily, but was wondering what everyone else uses. ...
    Oil & Gas News Outlets
  • Hi everyone I was wondering the other day if I ever make it to the S&T division of a BB, how's the chance I get transferred to the US (preferably to NYC), without having a green card and stuff? Is it done through some sponsorship...
    Transferring from London to NYC
  • Hi, does anyone know what exit opps exist for secondary advisory (think blackstone's secondary advisory etc) analysts and any intel on the comp would be...
    Secondary advisory
  • I have a modeling test for a IB analyst position at a boutique bank. I don't really have any modeling experience besides what I learned in school. Is there something I should focus on to prepare for this exercise? Any advice would be appreciated....
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  • Does a first year analyst's compensation really put them in the lower-middle class? More specifically, how comfortably can a first year IBD analyst in New York on a 70k base + 20-40k bonus live? If not as flashy as is portrayed in movies (forgive me), then why do so many people want to break...
    Another compensation question
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    Black Shirts
  • <a href="http://dealbreaker.com/2013/05/wouldnt-it-be-nice-for-once-in-your-life-to-get-there-ahead-of-the-major-institutions-id-like-you-to-start-a-relationship-with-firm-and-buy-shares-or-stock/">Dealbreaker</a> wrote (off Buzzfeed) today on some stockbrokers power phrases....
    “This account will come back to you in spades”
  • Background: Semi-target finance major, 3.2 gpa (terrible freshman/sophomore, excellent junior/senior years), previous IB internship at boutique I just graduated and I was unable to leverage my IB internship into a FT offer at a big bank. No return offer either because the bank I interned at...
    Need some advice - take anything?
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This is the reaction any analyst who has ever worked in banking has when you say you want to leave banking for business school then come back as a post b school associate... <img src="http://epicpinterestfail.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/how-i-met-your-mother-barney-why.gif"...
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For better or for worse, there’s a very unique feeling when everything goes completely according to plan yet nobody seems to care or notice. Such is the case with our favorite company of the moment, Tesla Motors. For those unaware, TSLA has rocketed upwards since its Q1 earnings release,...
A Perfect Storm
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<em>Mod note: Best of Bankerella - this was originally posted 10/1/12</em> I occasionally get PMed by people at colleges I’ve never heard of before, asking if they have a shot at IBD. Folks, why IBD? The finance world is broad and varied, and there are a million ways to...
My Biggest Career Mistake to Date: Prestige
Someone was asking me about this in PM and I wrote a long and detailed reply about what it is like to work in Big 4 and what advice I would give to people thinking about interning / working there. Thought it might be useful for others so my reply is below. Happy to answer any...
Working In Big 4 Audit in London
<em>Mode note: Blast from the past - "Best of Eddie" - this one is originally from December 2010.</em> Monty09 may have gotten the best plug yet for his <a href="http://energyrodeo.com/">Energy Rodeo</a> in Houston next month, and it came from none...
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This is just fantastic. After sitting through Carl Levin and John McCain spewing a bunch of nonsense about how Apple doesn't pay enough taxes (despite being the #3 taxpaying company in America behind ExxonMobil and Chevron), Rand Paul lit them up about what a travesty it was to blame Apple...
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