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	The Parthenon Group Restructures Executive Staff, Positions Company to Support Growing Capital Investment Practice. Business Wire; 8/30/2000; 700+ words ; ...Aug. 30, 2000 John C. Rutherford, Parthenon Group's co-founder and Chairman and now co-head of Parthenon Capital to transition away from the company's consulting practice The Parthenon Group, a U.S.-based management...
	School Takeover Gaining Support; Council Majority Backs Premise Of Fenty's Plan Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/3/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...votes for his first major legislative initiative: to restructure the governance of the 58,000- student system...based largely on a report he commissioned from the Parthenon Group, a management consulting firm that spent the past...
	New Report Illustrates Compaq Merger Destroys Stockholder Value. PR Newswire; 1/23/2002; 700+ words ; ...while ignoring the costs required to buy Compaq and restructure the business. HP is also working with unrealistically...prepared by Friedman, Fleischer & Lowe and The Parthenon Group. The report will be available on the web at http...
	Editorial Magazine article from: Aging Male; 9/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...Taylor & Francis Group, a respected academic...following the acquisition of Parthenon's parent company...much larger publishing group will strengthen the journal...1000 journals in the Group). This means that they...taking the opportunity to restructure the editorial team and...
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