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The 2016 Value Creators Rankings

BCG

Article Tuesday, October 25, 2016. The 2016 rankings are based on an analysis of TSR at approximately 2,000 companies worldwide from 2011 through 2015. The size of the hurdle for each industry can be found in the tables under “Industry.”) We also show TSR performance from January 1 through June 30, 2016.

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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 Though soft skills are quite literally unquantifiable, they are essential in consulting, an industry that can be incredibly people oriented. Fuqua’s Class of 2016 was just as impressive, garnering 20 internships at Deloitte, 11 at BCG, 9 at McKinsey, and 8 at Bain.

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Digital Technologies Raise the Stakes in Customer Service

BCG

Focus Wednesday, May 18, 2016. Worse yet, they have difficulty defining the right metrics to measure success. In many ways, digital technologies have had polar-opposite impacts for consumers and companies: For consumers, life has been simplified and empowered by devices such as smartphones and innovations such as social media.

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Why Character Matters in Leadership

Organizational Talent Consulting

Evidence from workplace studies on the benefits of character suggests that leaders with high character scores outperform others on company performance metrics. Industrial and Commercial Training, 48 (8), 394-399. doi:10.1108/ICT-04-2016-0020 Seijts, G., McMahon, B., Gonzalez, R., & Keck, P. Othman, R. & Ishizaki, H.

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The Power of Technology Economics

BCG

Report Monday, October 31, 2016. Despite its starring role in business and everyday life, many economists openly question whether technology is visible in traditional economic metrics such as GDP, productivity, and corporate profits. GDP also falls dramatically. Within a few years, labor productivity across the economy falls as well.

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Unleashing Technology, Media, and Telecom with Digital Transformation

BCG

Report Thursday, October 27, 2016. Technology innovation, the intensifying march of digitization, and the cumulative effect of the “big exponentials”—the laws of accelerating growth governing processing power, storage, and bandwidth—are shattering, reshaping, and redefining economics in and across industries.

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It’s Time to Tie Executive Compensation to Sustainability

Harvard Business

Many of them responded by including quality metrics in their compensation incentives. As any compensation consultant will tell you, comp plans can address only so many metrics. So for a compensation committee to justify a new metric, it needs to have a strong business case.

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