Tom Spencer

JANUARY 12, 2021

In essence, those who subjugate their entire academic careers to a single agenda tend to develop highly similar, homogenous profiles. Here are three handy tips to help you grab the attention of recruiters: Use slight hints of creative writing in your application! Do not hesitate to free up some space for this in your CV!

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 14, 2017

Three significant aspects in the life of a management consultant: travel, training and mentorship. Consultants are the primary asset of a consulting firm, and top consulting firms invest a considerable amount on formal training and development programs. Consulting firms will typically assign new recruits with a formal mentor.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 19, 2018

We are now in the era of “do-it-yourself” career development. During my 11 years at PepsiCo, mostly during the 1990s, “personal development” was treated as a major company initiative. And managers aren’t helping. Drawn Ideas/Getty Images. But the reality is the bigger burden is on employees.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 29, 2018

Positioning Yourself As The Expert — How To Develop A Consulting Voice That Clients Will Listen To with Ron Carucci. I switched careers into learning and development and organization development. Now, it was about revenues and profits and leading and managing. You’re a managing partner and owner now at Navalent.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. How talent management is changing. What does this mean for workforce learning and development? In particular, we see several interesting developments: Technology-supported peer learning is disrupting the old paradigm. Development, not deficiency, is motivating learning.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

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. PwC’s mothership manages a network of member firms with 83 offices across the US. The Boston Consulting Group.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Founded in 1983 by Kellogg School of Management marketing professors Andris A. In 1982, Andy presented his and Prabha’s mathematical models for sales force sizing and territory alignment to the Pharmaceutical Management Science Association (PMSA), using an early Apple computer to display sales territories on-site. What does this mean?

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Melissa Agnes

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Not only do they have very distinct meanings, but they need a different management response. And issue management can be regarded as a powerful tool for crisis prevention. In fact a crisis has been known to be described as an issue that WASN’T managed. Crisis management is trying to save the ship after it has struck and iceberg.

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Rick Conlow

JANUARY 9, 2022

If you are a manager, seek out these traits in people as you recruit and hire new people. I have met hundreds of terrific employees and managers through consulting projects over the last twenty years. Manage the tasks no one else likes to do and do them well. Unfortunately, they are way to rare. They miss things.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 24, 2023

An innovation culture supports beliefs and feelings about the importance of innovation, as well as habits that encourage research and development. European Conference on Knowledge Management, 833. Creativity and Innovation Management, 21 (3), 304-314. Culture is the one thing that impacts everything. Cantaragiu, R., &

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 7, 2015

Alex Formstone is a Principal in Marakon ’s London office, and heads up recruiting in the UK for graduates and MBAs. I recently had the good fortune to talk briefly with Alex about his career, Marakon and its recruitment process. To date, a lot of our work in financial services has been focused on insurance and wealth management.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 25, 2019

I applied outside the main recruiting period (BCG takes applicants all year round) and so my process was dragged across 3 months. The last two rounds were via video conference. Equipped with your structures, I personalized and developed them to suit my own style. I had three rounds with two case interviews in each.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 21, 2019

Below is a recap of four key reasons management consulting provides a truly differentiated career opportunity. Many consulting firms also invest significant dollars in their knowledge management and training programs. I have heard a number of hiring managers and headhunters remark that a year of consulting experience is worth 1.5-3

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Practice will only help for future interviews or next year’s recruiting cycle. If your heart is still set on management and strategy consulting, the best thing you can do is recruit for jobs with the best combination of brand recognition and skill-development. Sincerely, George. Short and to the point.

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Management Consulted

JUNE 17, 2015

Funny enough, the idea for Airbnb came about because the founders had trouble making rent, and in a desperate attempt to solve the problem they decided to throw up a website and market the extra space in their kitchen and living room to conference attendees visiting San Francisco who could find no room elsewhere. What do you say?”

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

At the same time, a close friend of Pratt’s, Raj Joshi, was working hard, trying to develop new offshoring strategies that would keep Deloitte ahead of the field. Thankfully, Infosys and Infosys Consulting seem to be managing this tension well and working hard to make this complex situation as pain free as possible. IT Strategy.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2018

We also explored several decades of research on that subject published in HBR; and we reflected on our own experience in the area of leadership development. Take the case of Dominic Barton, who served as the Global Managing Director of McKinsey & Company from 2009-2018. Focus on measurable results.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 11, 2016

The firm has developed an impressive client list of many Fortune 500 companies from a variety of industries, but the majority of its business comes from pharmaceutical, healthcare, and medical technology firms. Every year the company pays for every employee to visit Germany for an all-staff conference. Target Schools. ESCP Europe.

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Melissa Agnes

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Not only do they have very distinct meanings, but they need a different management response. And issue management can be regarded as a powerful tool for crisis prevention. In fact a crisis has been known to be described as an issue that WASN’T managed. Crisis management is trying to save the ship after it has struck and iceberg.

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Media Conference Chemicals Interviews 53

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Founded in 1989 by three former consultants of the MAC Group (a boutique sales and distribution consulting firm), Cornerstone Research was established to be very different than the general management consulting firm it was birthed from; focused on unique clients, managing delicate client relationships, and offering specialized work.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Unfortunately, young people “just don’t want to work for insurance companies,” the Journal reports, which has led some companies to develop brash recruiting campaigns. IBM is hardly a boring company, but for years it had trouble recruiting against internet upstarts.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2018

That picture also reflects the challenges that face the more than 6,000 registered investment advisors who work with TD Ameritrade, leaders of firms that manage a total of more than $3 trillion of assets for their clients. The program also included workshops that explored management trends and insights into the future of the advisor industry.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

There are findings that point to positive gains in both cost savings and productivity measures, while other studies, including the recent report from the National Bureau of Economic Research, find that programs can make for good recruitment tools but won’t do much to lower costs or improve health. Coaching made a difference.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 26, 2017

According to an assessment of over 700 sales professionals and senior executives conducted by GrowthPlay — a sales-focused consulting firm where one of us is Managing Director — the problem stems from gaps between the perceptions, attitudes, and information flows between executives and sales reps. There are other gaps, too.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

If you’re asked to speak at a conference or event, it’s likely because you’ve demonstrated expertise in your particular subject. Conference organizers are not hiring you to fill a 60-minute slot; there are plenty of cheaper ways to do that. Thiemi Higashi/EyeEm/Getty Images.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 20, 2015

I recently had the chance to talk with Stephanie Green, Manager of Talent Acquisition for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at IMS Consulting Group. Throughout the year there are training days, “lunch and learns” and our in-house learning and development team organise many training sessions for you to pick and choose from.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Indeed, surveys show that managers and executives describe the “ideal worker” as someone with no personal life or caregiving responsibilities. He had to sell the idea to both his family and the other managers at work. I’m going to push more responsibility onto them, which should help them develop faster.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

But as a company created by developers for developers, early on we all had the job of talking to customers constantly. The first three days are spent learning step by step how to build simple apps on the Twilio platform – a conference line, a voice recording, a text response. That’s not unique, of course.

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Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2016

When Frederick Taylor published his pioneering principles of scientific management in 1912, the repetitive and mundane nature of most jobs required employees to think as little as possible. So how can managers do a better job of fostering learnability in the workplace? We suggest starting with three things: Select for it. Nurture it.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 2, 2018

At Hootsuite, the social media management platform, marketing and human resources executives collaborate to do this. During the interview process, hiring managers are required to ask every candidate, regardless of role, a question to gauge their customer orientation. Democratize customer insights.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

I think this internalization is one of the key reasons I came out of the recruiting process with an offer, so thank you for making it so much more accessible! If they decline, it will be only due to time constraints, as you will be a very credible person asking them to lunch (and if not lunch, ask for a phone call or Skype conference).

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 17, 2017

Our employees are telling us that they want to work for a company that cares about diversity, and it helps is recruit people whose values align to ours.” created a program called Women and Opportunity that aims to develop women for future leadership roles at Gap. For example, Gap Inc.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 27, 2018

Yet many other women have managed to build highly successful careers with degrees in STEM disciplines. More recent research suggests that messages in recruiting for women in STEM often reinforces the notion that men are naturally better in those fields. How did they do it? Hone your brand.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2017

We recently posed these questions to Harvard Business School alumni founders while designing a new two-year joint degree program that confers both a master of science from Harvard’s Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and an MBA from HBS. The survey results show that no single management skill stands out above the rest.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

At a recent investor conference, one of us heard a CEO proudly state that the new law would have no effect at all on how his company views investments. For example, well-managed consolidators such as Dell Technologies are doing well in this market. But most have been reticent to say anything about their plans.

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2018

Checking into a hotel for a conference several years ago, I asked the receptionist where I could get some dinner. So what can companies do to help their employees develop healthy habits while traveling? Eric Raptosh Photography/Getty Images.

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Confessions of a Consultant

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

High Versus Low Engagement: Professional managers are paid to secure high output performance from others. The currently fashionable way to do this (and management trends are a ‘fashion item’) is to secure employee engagement. Every month he held management meetings to check progress on a complex plant start-up. Is this clear?

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