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Mergers & Acquisitions: The Importance of Creating a Shared Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

Culture is acutely critical during notable changes, such as M&As, which offer an opportunity for a renewed start on culture. When two organizations combine through mergers and acquisitions for economic reasons, it is doubtful that the two cultures will remain precisely the same.

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2016 Top 10 U.S. MBA programs for Management Consulting

Management Consulted

With that in mind, we compiled the 2016 Top 10 U.S In 2015, 168 students of the 748-person class went in to consulting, despite the strong interest in investment banking at Columbia as well its culture of encouraging entrepreneurship. MBA programs for Management Consulting – and the results may surprise you.

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The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies, 2016

Harvard Business

As the newly released 2016 Empathy Index demonstrates, empathy, which is about understanding our emotional impact on others and making change as a result, is more important to a successful business than it has ever been, correlating to growth, productivity, and earnings per employee. This year we added a carbon metric. Methodology.

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Should a CEO’s Bonus Be Based on Financial Performance Alone?

Harvard Business

On November 9, 2016, the shareholders of Australia’s largest company, and the world’s tenth-largest bank , revolted. Corporations are now taking a further step beyond objective metrics, which can be financial and nonfinancial, to include subjective measures — tagged as “soft.”

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Why Companies Can’t Turn Customer Insights into Growth

BCG

Article Tuesday, August 16, 2016. On the left side, record each mention of an internal topic, such as financial or operational performance, plans, metrics, organization, employees, or culture. Despite their best intentions to focus on customers’ needs, many companies spend more time looking inward.

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Developing a Thought Leadership Strategy with Charlene Li

Women in Consulting

Strengthen your relationship with your followers by validating them, then use metrics to measure the impact and reach of your interactions. It is crucial that your strategy is aligned with the culture of the organization and that both are consistent across all platforms. Develop an engagement strategy. TRANSFORMATION.

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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Great leaders achieve great results and create great company cultures. 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. References: Anderson, R., & & Adams, W. & Lord, R.