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Consultant Ninja: Signs of Crunch Time: Management Consulting Blog

Consultant Ninja

Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. priorities: work, call wife, sleep, eat, in decreasing order] Project Manager irritability rising. Countdown metric unit shrinking. ["96 Management Consulting.

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We Can’t Study Short-Termism Without the Right Metrics

Harvard Business

However, firms can efficiently increase margin growth without much revenue growth by managing to squeeze out their fixed costs to service the same level of output. For instance, Home Depot, despite a painful housing market–led recession, retained most of its hourly workers and their benefits in 2008–2009.

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Marketing Guidelines for Professional Services Firms During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Prudent Pedal

Prior to COVID-19, I have marketed through the Internet Gold Rush, Y2K, the dot-com bust, 9/11, The Great 2008 Recession, and any number of other “irrational” rushes. Both need to be managed. If ever there was a time to look at and discuss key metrics like open rates and click-throughs, now is the time. You’re spamming people.

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Research: Objective Performance Metrics Are Not Enough to Overcome Gender Bias

Harvard Business

Imagine that you are choosing between two similar mutual funds, one managed by Marcus and the other by Tanya. exchange over a six-year period (2008 to 2013). Therefore, managers should be tasked with evaluating smaller subsets of a larger candidate pool. Tooga/Getty Images.

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. A Sloan Management Review article (which I had the pleasure of working on) provides valuable context for Garvin’s most-read HBR articles.

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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

While working with a large Forbes Top 25 Private Company, we quantified the value of leadership using internal key business metrics and various cognitive and behavioral leader assessments. Journal of Management, 14(3), 453-464. Journal of Management Research, 1(4), 254. Collins, J. HarperBusiness. Dhar, U., & Eisenbeiss, S.,

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. After all, “short-termism” does not correspond to any single quantifiable metric. We calculate that U.S.