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Has the MBA become Redundant for a Career in Consulting?

Tom Spencer

Through going to many different networking events and information nights with different firms, I have learned that this fact is quickly told by recruiters. Their advice is always the same, for them their other degrees showed firms that they have an inquisitive mind that can solve problems with the utmost productivity. Image: Pexels.

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6 Organizational Culture Change Strategies

Organizational Talent Consulting

Culture Change Strategy #6: How leaders recruit, promote, and fire Who gets hired, promoted , and fired, and for what both creates and reinforces your organization's culture. The Journal of Product Innovation Management, 30 (4), 763-781. Simply saying thank you for presenting a decision using data analytics is a social reward.

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What We Learned from Improving Diversity Rates at Pinterest

Harvard Business

Pinterest’s fastest growing users are outside of the United States, and for current and future users, it’s important that the people building our product make it relevant to people of different ethnic, social, physical, and geographic backgrounds. But businesses have long struggled to increase diversity across all levels.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

The office is incredibly diverse, with some of the best talent from 35+ countries and folks that speak 29 languages. As usual getting into McKinsey is tough, but it’s even tougher in NYC – with many target recruiting schools nearby and hundreds of aspirants swarming to locate in NY, it’s a highly competitive office.

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A Commercial Pilot’s 2-Year Plan to Break into Consulting

Management Consulted

So I just started really getting training for and looking for opportunities in project management in the media space, and after about a year-and-a-half of just building up the skill set necessary to get one of those roles, I landed a job for a small production company here in Atlanta. We work with a lot of really cool clients. Let’s see here.

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Why Companies Overlook Great Internal Candidates

Harvard Business

However, LinkedIn’s recent Talent Trends study, conducted between January and March of 2016 with more than 26,000 professionals, showed that 25% of professionals today have their eye on a promotion. How talent management is changing. This may be true for some. That left us wondering, what’s the disconnect here?

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5 Ways to Help Employees Keep Up with Digital Transformation

Harvard Business

And at Greycroft, a venture capital firm, investor Teddy Citrin has laid out a veritable map for the further disruption of every consumer products category. Plug-and-play e-commerce technology, search engine optimization, and other distribution solutions are making it ever easier for products to directly reach consumers.

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