Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

Note: To continue the merger and consolidation excitement, Willis Group (a large insurance provider interested largely in the actuarial practice of Towers Watson) and Towers Watson announced on June 30, 2015 that they had agreed to a $18B merger. Doing a few things will put you on track for advancing high up the leadership ladder.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

According to Vault’s 50 Consulting 50 rankings for 2015, KMPG is ranked at 18 overall, at 7 for “Best Consulting Firms for Financial Services” and 8 for “Best Consulting Firms for Public Sector Consulting”. Consulting Mag’s “Top 25 in Consulting” for “Excellence in Leadership to Mike Nolan of KPMG (2014). Applying to KPMG? Georgetown.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In a 2015 report, the Boston Consulting Group labeled the occurrence “ leapfrog successions.” The second, more qualitative piece, keyed in on leadership ability based on a multitude of in-depth interviews with the leader’s peers, supervisors, and direct reports done by our internal executive talent team.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 17, 2017

The business case for diversity is clear. Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. Interviews were recorded and professionally transcribed. For example, Gap Inc.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 29, 2016

Bringing light to Africa , mobile banking to Bangladesh , low-cost health care to Nepal, or better school lunches to the American cafeteria: In all these cases, the private sector is a big part of the action. Fred Swaniker of the African Leadership Group, who has founded four Africa-based organizations, spends about half his time on hiring.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Our research involved a detailed cross-case analysis of five major corporations operating in Australia over 10 years, from 2005 to 2015. Through a detailed qualitative analysis, we examined company reports, media releases, policy statements, and over 70 interviews conducted with senior managers from these companies.

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Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2017

In one telling case , construction workers went home at the end of the week as employees only to be informed on the following Monday that, perhaps by the magic of some unknown force, they had become, “member/owners” of hundreds of limited liability companies, effectively stripping them of federal and state job protections.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 23, 2015

We also expect everyone, irrespective of level, to show entrepreneurial spirit and thought leadership to progress how we run our business. Mike Meredith: We will open for graduate and internship applications in September 2015. Two interview rounds. Tom: When are you accepting the next round of applications?

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 30, 2018

The culture is also evolving and improving, as evidenced by an annual survey that tracks the main levers for the transformation, including innovation and sustainability, leadership, team, and engagement. Since 2011 the share price has more than doubled. ” Fourth, intensive training helped accelerate contribution.

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Women in Consulting

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Deb Siegle, WIC’s president, was recently interviewed (by email) regarding women consultants and business owners for possible inclusion in an article for one of the Boston College blogs. Here are excerpts from that interview. I do think women can benefit from developing vision and leadership skills, not just management skills.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

A 2015 McKinsey report on 366 public companies found that those in the top quartile for ethnic and racial diversity in management were 35% more likely to have financial returns above their industry mean, and those in the top quartile for gender diversity were 15% more likely to have returns above the industry mean.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

In this segment, we are seeing a lot of companies who ask and have gotten hammered because they have such poor representation of women and they really want to embrace women in leadership roles. Does she go through interviews? One of them is going to do values and experimentation, the other one is going to do LinkedIn and interviewing.

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Harvard Business

JULY 27, 2017

From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1 Among the 30 top companies in seven of the largest industries, almost half had a VC-fueled accelerator in 2015, up from just 2% in 2010. Harnessing Big Potential While Minimizing Risk.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2017

But I suggest that the problem at Uber goes beyond a culture created by toxic leadership. ” (After I first flagged his posting, in 2015, Uber removed the document from its site. It’s certainly true that, in many cases, companies that have developed a dysfunctional management culture have changed by bringing in new leaders.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We offer such a roadmap here, the outcome of a research project , at the Center for Higher Ambition Leadership, with 25 CEOs and their practices for mastering short-term pressures and creating long-term social and economic value, even in the toughest conditions. Consider, once again, the case of Fred Lynch. Has something changed?’

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Through my leadership development work with the United Nations (UN), I’ve been privileged to work with professionals who operate in some of the world’s most challenging contexts. To conduct interviews, El Hage and her team go to places including prisons and camps for people who have been driven from their homes by conflict.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Same-sex couples throughout the country can now get legally married after the 2015 Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. If that’s the case, then, naturally, improved attitudes toward LGBTQ people would reduce this penalty.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Since 2009 we have interviewed and surveyed 181 executives who run PE-owned companies, as well as eight to 15 people who work with each of these 181 executives (supervisors, board members, director reports, and others). Consider the case of Surgical Care Affiliates (SCA), a provider of surgical facilities based in Deerfield, Illinois.

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