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3 Steps to Cultivate an Innovation Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

The proven benefits of innovation include: increased competitive advantage improved operational productivity reduced costs and increased revenue improved commercial value enhanced problem-solving One modern innovation that is impressive to watch is SpaceX's reusable Falcon 9 (watch the video below). Organizational Talent Consulting.

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A Winning Parental Leave Policy Can Be Surprisingly Simple

Harvard Business

An employee handbook update doesn’t usually merit a press release and glossy promotional video — except when there’s a benefits arms race on. From 2015 to 2017, more than 75 large companies issued press releases touting new or expanded parental leave policies. 20 weeks ! A full year !

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How My Company Created an Apprenticeship Program to Help Diversify Tech

Harvard Business

In January 2017 we partnered with Colleen Showalter from the local Boys and Girls Club (BGC) in Portland, Oregon, and asked if they would help us recruit new talent, ages 18 and above, from underrepresented groups. They recruited a group of 30 individuals, ages 18-20, who expressed interest in the program.

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Disruptive Startups Get Funding More Easily, but Less of It

Harvard Business

billion), NDS (the video software provider scooped by Cisco in 2012 for $5 billion), Playtika (the gaming platform bought by Giant Interactive for $4.4 billion in 2017). To answer this question, we recruited 203 participants with previous investment experiences for an online experiment. Here’s how we did it.

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8 Ways Machine Learning Is Improving Companies’ Work Processes

Harvard Business

Corporate investment in artificial intelligence is predicted to triple in 2017 , becoming a $100 billion market by 2025. Related Video. Corporate job openings pull in about 250 résumés apiece, and over half of surveyed recruiters say shortlisting qualified candidates is the most difficult part of their job.

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Male and Female Entrepreneurs Get Asked Different Questions by VCs — and It Affects How Much Funding They Get

Harvard Business

When we analyzed video transcriptions of the Q&A sessions (with a linguistic software program and manual coding), we learned that venture capitalists posed different types of questions to male and female entrepreneurs: They tended to ask men questions about the potential for gains and women about the potential for losses.

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Top Consulting Firms

CaseInterview.com

It was ranked #3 best place to work on Glassdoor in 2018 and 2017. Bain& Company was the #1 best-ranked place to work in 2019 according to Glassdoor and #1 in North America in 2017. KPMG has made work-life balance a leading attraction in its recruitment efforts. Compensation/Benefits. Work-Life Balance. Work-Life Balance.