Word: bains
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...senior, a thesis-writer, very grown up with my semi-imaginary boyfriend, and interested in worldly things. Time has transfigured and deepened our relationship. The Ali family grew again, a niece or a granddaughter born in francophone Canada this fall. “Sophia au bain-bain!” a woman wrote, with an unopenable attachment of photographs. “Sophie en rose.” The messages have become more topical, given the conflict in the Arab world and Ali’s abiding relationship with the Zaytuna Institute. After the appearance of the Danish cartoon...
...carefully orchestrated plan to spiff up the brand with an eye toward taking the company public. A year from now, "we'll sit down and say, Is the company at this point geared for a reasonable IPO?," says Carlyle Group co-founder Dan D'Aniello. Carlyle, together with Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners, bought Dunkin' Brands from the French beverage giant Pernod Ricard for $2.4 billion in March 2006. To make that investment pay off, Dunkin' will have to fend off competitors trying to take a bite out of its core breakfast business while it hopes...
...apparently I don’t take interview scheduling as seriously as everyone else. Having found out I had an interview with Bain & Co. the night I arrived back in Boston, I figured I could sign up for it the next day, maybe after I had a few minutes to pick out classes. My mistake. The following morning, about half a dozen slots—out of 84—were still open, and all but one were...
...economy stays strong, he adds, companies such as Bain & Company, Boston Consulting Group, or Goldman Sachs will likely not have any qualms about hiring Early Career MBAs...
Mark Gottfredson, a partner at consultancy Bain & Co., studied that subject at 75 companies in 12 industries and found that as firms became more complicated, growth slowed. Companies lowest in complexity grew 1.7 times as fast as their average competitor, even when taking firm size into account. "Complexity creep is the most natural thing in the world, especially in retail," says Gottfredson. "The challenge is that while every one of those decisions seems to make sense, underneath you start building up enormous amounts of systemic cost...