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• Toby Pearlstein retired as director, global information services, Bain & Co.(Peopleware)(Brief article)

  - 2008-03-01

  Toby Pearlstein retired as director, global information services, Bain & Co. Monica Ertel succeeds her and will be based in Bain's San Francisco office.

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• I.T. Alignment No Silver Bullet; According to New Study of More Than 400 Companies

  - 2007-10-01

  Newly Released Study by Bain & Company Finds a Focus on I.T. Effectiveness First - Then Alignment - Results in Both Lower Overall I.T. Spending and Higher Sales Growth NEW YORK -- Bain & Company announced the release of its 'IT Effectiveness and Growth Study' today and finds no...

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• Bain & Company Names Cyrus Jilla as Managing Partner United Kingdom.

  - 2007-07-31

  LONDON, July 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Bain & Company announced today the appointment of Cyrus Jilla as the new Managing Partner of the global consulting firm's operations in the United Kingdom, effective August 1, 2007. Jilla, who joined Bain & Company in 1997...

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• Plenty of 'pitting' preceded Romney's profits

  - 2007-07-03

  The series  » Series link -- Special report from The Boston Globe On a winter's evening in 1985, Mitt Romney sat in a drab 10-by- 10-foot conference room in Boston's Copley Place, flapping his tie to mimic a rapidly beating heart. His colleagues knew that when Romney...

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• Massachusetts Health Insurance Bill Could Be Decisive Shot in Prescription Drug Revolution Threatening Big Pharma Profits

  - 2006-04-17

  NEW YORK -- $35 Billion in Branded Drug Profits are At Risk in Three to Four Years If 'Reference Pricing' Becomes National Battle Cry, according to Bain & Company "Reference pricing" - a prescription drug cost-control measure gaining significantly more prominence this month as Massachusetts lawmakers passed a mandatory...

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• Consulting in the right direction; Face value.

  - 2005-10-22

  Orit Gadiesh has led Bain & Company from near-bankruptcy to surprising success ANYONE who thinks that management consulting is an all-American affair run by men wielding Powerpoint presentations and sharp elbows should meet Orit Gadiesh. The soft-spoken executive chairman of Bain & Company,...

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• Bain & Company Global Survey of Top 25 Management Tools Suggests Chinese Management Sophistication Still Lagging; Tool Choices by Chinese Firms Reveal Focus on More Tactical Management Methods

  - 2005-04-20

  NEW YORK -- Chinese management savvy is still emerging, this according to Bain & Company's newly-released 2005 Management Tools & Trends survey. Bain finds that 88% of Chinese executives feel their products and services are behaving more like commodities and that 83% agree excessive complexity is raising their costs and...

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• Bain & Co

  - 2004-11-08

  * Bain & Co., a consulting firm, has released a study indicating that the views of senior executives regarding technology can hamper spending in that area. While 70% of senior executives at large corporations agree that information technology is relevant to growth, 60% say it is actually inhibiting their growth...

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• Bain Study Reveals How Firms Are Using Three Main Analytic Tools

  BNET - 2003-09-01

  Companies have increasingly turned to certain financial analysis tools to help them navigate through the tough economy. Use of the economic value added EVA, balanced scorecard, and benchmarking techniques have increased since 2000, according to a new survey from Bain & Company, a global business consulting firm. These findings reinforce...

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• The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Up Close Column.

  - 2002-09-15

  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 15--No one can accuse Alan Colberg of telling corporate America what it wants to hear. Colberg, managing director of the Atlanta office of Bain & Co., a business consulting firm, says that...

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