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OC&C Strategy Consultants Interview and Culture

Management Consulted

This firm was birthed out of the frustration they both felt with their employer, who they believed devoted too much time to operational issues while neglecting strategic analysis. Operational Strategy. However, operations projects are focused on the client’s site. 33 Vault Consulting 50 (2015). #7 Industries .

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How to Actually Put Your Data Analysis to Good Use

Harvard Business

In 2015, there was a surplus of people with data science skills. What they do need are analyses that solve key commercial and operational problems. What’s missing, more often than not, is a clear strategy and operational model for using these capabilities in ways that are specific to the company’s business requirements.

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How to Make Better Predictions When You Don’t Have Enough Data

Harvard Business

Simply turning the work over to machines won’t help: most machine learning and statistical mining techniques also hold the assumption that historical data, which is used to train the machine-learning model, behaves similarly to the target data, to which the model is later applied. A model that considered data from beyond the U.S.

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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business

If your company offers internal finance training, take advantage of it. The most important concepts to grasp are “how to measure profitability, EBITDA, operating income, revenue, and operating expenses,” he says. Case Study #1: Partner with a colleague in finance and experiment with numbers.

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A Transformation Is Underway at U.S. Veterans Affairs. We Got an Inside Look.

Harvard Business

billion, its budget in 2015 was slightly higher than the total gross sales of General Motors. A Harvard Business School case study that Robert Huckman, Sam Travers, and I wrote earlier this year documents what came next. The stakes, in other words, were high. ” Build a capacity for learning and continuous improvement.

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Keeping It Professional When You Work in a Family Business

Harvard Business

You’ll get invaluable training, improve your business judgment, and build your confidence. Case Study #1: Work elsewhere before climbing the family ladder. ” Case Study #2: Set clear expectations from day one. Work somewhere else first. ” Create separate spheres immediately. It always ends badly.