Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

In fact, in a meeting we had last month with a group of senior HR directors, some of the most urgent questions were: “How do I make my CEO pay attention to this issue?” Unfortunately, as we heard at the HR meeting, many employers have still failed to implement the best and most effective measures to prevent workplace harassment.

Report 33

Report Financial Talent Policies 33

Management Consulted

MAY 25, 2014

In 1932, Dr. Gallup joined the New York advertising firm Young & Rubicam as the head of both the research and copy departments. He developed research methods and programs for the television and movie industry to help clients determine advertising effectiveness and how to identify what the market wanted to watch in film and television.

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Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 181

Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Advertise successes. It culminated in a two-day meeting for the entire organization that included open conversations about what was working well and what opportunities and challenges this new organization needed to address for its clients. Minimize the need for multiple layers of sign-off. Nothing breeds success like success.

Agile 52

Agile Efficiency Culture Trends 52

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 1, 2016

But sales forces that are managed only to meet short-term needs can drift into mediocrity. A startup online advertising company in the early days of e-commerce paid its sales force entirely on commission. Sales leaders divide the national sales goal among sales managers, who allocate their portion of the goal to their salespeople.

Sales 28

Sales Talent Ethics Advertising 28

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

You are trained on how to get into a CEO’s mindset within a lifetime of an engagement while being an outsider. Consultants get to travel quite a lot and meet different kinds of people and this makes them diverse and enables them to have insights, which others can only strive for. Nothing beats experiential learning. Be careful here.

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Consulting Case Interview Interviews Engineering 204

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Many companies look to hire overseas to help ease the domestic talent shortfall (in fact, one in three data scientists are born outside the U.S. ) Here’s what we found: F-1 Visa “Optional Practical Training” Who’s eligible? Nearly all professional-level jobs in the IT industry will meet this test.

Data 28

Data Training Training Education 28

Confessions of a Consultant

AUGUST 12, 2018

The book attempted to distil the methods deployed by the best-managed companies to create what’s sometimes referred to as sticky talent. Talent Wars : As the ‘war for talent’ increases, there’s emerging evidence of systematic poaching, in some cases encouraged by headhunters who make a living from ‘executive churn’.Don’t

Talent 40

Talent Case Interview Engineering Interviews 40

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Linda’s company, Talent Reconnect, offers returnships that are aimed mostly at women who have graduated from top business schools but who had 2 to 5 years of post-MBA experience before opting out. For example, I have one returnee who has a background in advertising, but she really wants to get more into operations.

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Case Interview Company Interviews Consulting 100

Harvard Business

JULY 15, 2016

When a bright, talented employee is eager to move up but isn’t quite equipped to do so, one of the most powerful things you can say is, “‘I believe in you’ — if you genuinely mean it, of course,” Weintraub says. Sharing your personal professional experiences can be helpful. Validate (with a caveat).

Case Study 28

Case Study Case Studies Sales Company 28

Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2018

Based on our work with member companies at the Marketing Science Institute, two competing forces explain this discrepancy—the data used in analytics and the analyst talent producing it. Even if the firm did not advertise, consumers are motivated to buy, so how does one know whether the ads were effective? and 2017 (Mean 3.7,

Marketing 35

Marketing Data Advertising Talent 35

Seth Godin Blog

JUNE 18, 2014

It means that we are trusted enough to be permitted to speak the first few words, and talented enough to keep the attention we''ve worked so hard to earn. The three questions to ask, then, at every editorial meeting: Who is this for? When we deliver meaningful content, it means we show up, invited, with words and images that matter.

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Media Advertising Video Report 52