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Case Study: Is Holacracy for Us?

Harvard Business

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. If you’d like your comment to be considered for publication, please be sure to include your full name, company or university affiliation, and email address.

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Consulting Case Interviews at Non-Consulting Firms

Tom Spencer

As such, I’ve increasingly seen case interviews being used to recruit for corporate strategy roles in all sectors and business operation (“BizOps”) roles at startups. Now, case interviews for non-consulting industries tend to really intimidate candidates. These are universals.

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Case Study: How Would You Save This Farm?

Harvard Business

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. That wasn’t a disaster—the farm had invested in wells to tap groundwater and drip irrigation to use the water efficiently—but it was a disappointment.

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Thinking Like a Consultant: Quantitative Reasoning and Prioritization

Management Consulted

In 2013, The Economist published an article on the increasing demand for management consulting in various sectors of society. This article, titled, “To the Brainy, the Spoils”, was headed up with the following tagline: “As the world grows more confusing, demand for clever consultants is booming”. First of all, you’re normal.

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Does your website speak the right lingo? Here’s how you can tell.

Rod Burkert

One thing I found last week: Your Clients Pay You to be Effective, Not Efficient … a LinkedIn article by Tim Williams who reminds us to be overly obsessed with delivering the results (the ends), not doing the work (the means). It’s the words and phrases and jargon they use to describe their operations, services, and issues.

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Where Predictive Analytics Is Having the Biggest Impact

Harvard Business

However, looking at the surveys and consulting reports, it is unclear what the precise use cases are that will drive this positive ROI from big data. Our goal in this article is to offer specific, real-world case studies to show how big data has provided value for companies that have worked with Microsoft’s analytics teams.

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A.T. Kearney Interview & Culture

Management Consulted

Now known to be THE best sourcing, procurement and operations consulting firm in the world, A.T. 1997 – First Global Prize, an annual business school case study competition for potential recruits, awarded. Operations. Mir Aamir - Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer, Coupons.com. Strategic IT.