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Killing Strategy: The Disruption Of Management Consulting

CB Insights

Before Bruce Doolin Henderson opened the doors of Boston Consulting Group on July 1, 1963, the concept of “competition” barely existed in American business culture, let alone the concept of strategy. From one perspective, the position of management consulting as an industry has never seemed more secure. Those companies made plans.

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Retail’s Small Business Crisis

PYMNTS

Things went off the rails, not surprisingly, in 2008 — courtesy of the financial crisis. More businesses opened than closed — until 2008. In the aftermath of 2008, only 20 counties — most of them rimming major cities and tech hubs — drove 50 percent of small business formation. The mix of these businesses is also very different.

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The Top 20 Venture Capitalists

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He received his MBA in 1993 from UT Austin before joining Credit Suisse First Boston as an Equity Research Analyst, where he focused on computer hardware and software. After 4 years with the company, Brian joined Google as a Software Engineer and inevitably rose to become an Engineering Manager. BILL GURLEY. JEFF JORDAN. RAVI MHATRE.

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The Brexit Bombshell

NCR

Back in 2008, the financial services provider was 158 years old, had been highly regard throughout its existence, and was the fourth-largest investment back in the country. And if that’s even a little bit true, let’s acknowledge it could affect wide swaths of the entire banking industry, and what all of us do. None of this will be easy.

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18 Corporate Innovation Labs In Healthcare

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Founded: 2008. ” Here, a team of over 60 professionals in healthcare, design, IT, and project management work around a business strategy called design thinking. This simplifies the prescription filling process for patients and improves pharmacy inventory management. Start small. Founded: 1979. Founded: 2015.

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Killing The I-Bank: The Disruption Of Investment Banking

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In the world of asset management, the biggest players are now dedicated firms like Vanguard. Total assets under management (AUM) at the top asset managers now dwarfs total AUM at the top banks. The disruption of asset management. Task management platform Asana went public via DPO in September 2020.

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242 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

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Twenty months of my absence have allowed the “professional” top managers to kill the company using the money of rich oligarchs. more than we, Kamil Kurmakaev and I, spent since the company’s inception in 2008 till August 2014. Title: Boston startup Besomebody, once featured on ‘Shark Tank,’ shuts down app.

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