Tom Spencer

JULY 12, 2015

Founded in 1992, North Highland is an employee-owned global management consulting firm that has been named as a Best Firm to Work For every year since 2007 by Consulting Magazine. Please read the edited transcript of my communication with Jennifer and Cheryl below. Where does North Highland do the bulk of its work?

Travel 60

Travel Telecommunications Industry Consulting 60

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Before the iPhone was introduced, in 2007, Nokia was the dominant mobile phone maker with a clearly stated purpose — “Connecting people” — and an aggressive strategy for sustaining market dominance. Most companies have articulated their purpose — the reason they exist. Consider Nokia.

Strategy& 48

Strategy& Strategy Strategy Company 48

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The Great Recession of 2007 to 2009 was under way. Expenditures on control functions related to implementing new regulations such as compliance, risk, finance, operations, and technology have been cut — but only by 10%. Investment bank Bear Stearns collapsed. Lehman Brothers toppled.

Banking 28

Banking Balance Sheet Financial Finance 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Operating decisions are almost entirely decentralized. Nearly all of these practices run counter to conventional banking wisdom, which holds that to be efficient a bank must consolidate operational activities and centralize decision making on matters like pricing and lending. The case of Svenska Handelsbanken is illustrative.

Management 28

Management Banking Pharmaceuticals Productivity 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 29, 2017

“Natural monopoly” was jettisoned as the operative assumption. Instead of having operations mandated, cellular carriers were given defined spectrum spaces. The main event is in getting spectrum into the market faster and more efficiently, placing it into the hands of enterprises able to do the most for consumers.

Wireless 28

Wireless Intellectual Property Enterprise Policies 28

MishTalk

MAY 21, 2014

Of the 700,000 immigrant STEM workers allowed into the country between 2007 and 2012, only one-third got a STEM job, about one-third got a non-STEM job, and about one-third are not working. The weakening demand during recessions forces firms to look for new ways to be more efficient to cope with hard times.

Engineering 77

Engineering Banking Education Training 77

MishTalk

JANUARY 1, 2014

The new data surpasses the previous record set in 2007, when 477,000 acres were cultivated, according to the UN drug watchdog. The US-led coalition has rejected any crop eradication operations by its soldiers for fear of bankrupting farmers and forcing them to join the insurgency.

Retail 77

Retail Industry Sales Fashion 77

Harvard Business

MAY 21, 2018

When Enterprise Rent-A-Car acquired Vanguard’s Alamo Rent-A-Car and National Car Rental in 2007, rather than executing a takeover, it moved slowly and sought to learn from its new brands. When a new direction was chosen, it would reflect the best elements of both cultures and operating approaches.”

Company 32

Company Enterprise Culture Accenture 32

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Walmart is the country’s largest employer and largest company by revenue and it reached that position through an operating model made possible by proprietary logistics software. In November 2007, Forbes put the CEO of Nokia on its cover and asked, “Can Anyone Catch the Cell Phone King?

Software 28

Software Company Industry Policies 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2018

By 2007 it broke through the barrier of 1 million active customers; 10 years later it had more than 10 million clients and about 800 branches. Capitec gets many things right in terms of its strategy, including its market positioning, internal operations, and organizational culture. It has now become the largest bank in the country.

Banking 28

Banking Industry Insurance Insurance 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2017

This turmoil led to huge operational shifts in the financial services sector, where there’s more focus than ever on consumer education, industry information sharing, and stronger forms of authentication, among other things. The technology can record transactions between two parties efficiently and in a verifiable and permanent way.

Insurance 28

Insurance Insurance Financial System 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

On December 7, Portland, Oregon, passed a law that will impose a surcharge on the local business taxes paid by corporations that operate in the city when the CEO’s compensation is 100 times or more the median earnings of the company’s employees. public corporations must file with the U.S. million (57% from stock-based pay).

Exercises 28

Exercises Report Pharmaceuticals Financial 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 14, 2016

billion annually in currency operations costs. Moreover, in India, the total value of ATM transactions increased more than five times between 2007 and 2012, from about 3 trillion to about 18 trillion rupees, while the value of card transactions barely doubled in the same period from 1 to 2 trillion rupees.

Banking 28

Banking Boston Consulting Group Policies Study 28