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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 contrast, this year 28 graduates accepted offers from Bain, 26 from BCG, 20 from Deloitte, and an additional 18 went to PwC/Strategy& The average starting base salary for a Kellogg 2015 grad entering consulting was over $133,000, with an average signing bonus of over $27,000.

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CEOs Are Getting Fired for Ethical Lapses More Than They Used To

Harvard Business

Larger companies are more at risk than smaller ones, as are companies where the CEO has been in office for a long time, and companies where the CEO is also the board chair, according to PwC’s Strategy& recent CEO Success study. From 2007-2011, forced turnovers due to ethical lapses were 3.9% and Canada (from 1.6%

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You Can’t Pizza Party Your Way to a Great Corporate Culture

Harmonious Workplaces

Pizza parties (with dietary alternatives), happy hours, and office games like ping pong or video games can foster team bonding and employee engagement (Müceldili & Erdil, 2016). They offer a chance for everyone to relax and socially connect. However, they should never serve as a smokescreen for underlying company problems.

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Transformational Leadership: Changing Culture to Fuel Financial Success

Organizational Talent Consulting

These ethical failures are often not the result of one "bad actor" alone but systemic issues. Section 4: Two Key Leadership Behaviors and Attributes Organizational culture is everyone's responsibility, and leaders play a fundamental role in influencing and supporting culture (Schein & Schein, 2016).

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Best Business Books 2016: Technology

Strategy+Business

Sheil Jasanoff provides a counterweight to such optimism, arguing in The Ethics of Invention: Technology and the Human Future, that our tendency to delegate too much power to impressive technological systems can lead to undesired results.

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How Companies Can Take a Stand Against Bribery

Harvard Business

In 2016, the International Monetary Fund estimated that corruption amounted to roughly 2% of global economic output — between $1.5 External standards can also be a powerful tool in support of those efforts, helping companies strengthen ethics and compliance practices by offering a clear framework for action.

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Robo-Advisers Are Coming to Consulting and Corporate Strategy

Harvard Business

At the end of 2016, Fitch Ratings estimated that all robo-advisors managed under U.S.$100B Corporate strategy is complex, and the advice is expensive. 4 to $5 billion was invested by VCs in AI in 2016. . $5 trillion to U.S. $7 7 trillion by the year 2025 from about U.S.$300 300 billion today. Finally, A.T.