Consulting Matters

MARCH 27, 2018

Interview Transcript: Betsy Jordyn: Well hello there everybody it's Betsy Jordyn of the Consultants Institute, and I am so excited to finally be interviewing Michael Zipursky of Consulting Success. Spend more time with loved ones, travel, do whatever is most meaningful for them. Zipursky: Oh, wow. Four years ago? Time flies.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 22, 2021

When you are interviewing with consulting firms, what made you look at Boston Consulting Group compared to some other big firms or specialty firms? Overall, it was a better cultural fit for me. Now that you have been through the process, what is BCG’s specific culture? BCG feels like a comfortable home for a Ph.D.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2017

Rather than assuming we’ll work in one location, in our native culture, we will need new skills, attitudes, and behaviors that help us work across cultures. What’s more, the subsidiaries operated more or less autonomously, each with separate organizational cultures and norms. Seeking commonality between cultures.

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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2016

Even without speaking the local language, you can learn a huge amount about a country’s culture from tuning into local television shows, especially comedy programs. Being able to tune into a culture without pre-conceived biases or judgment is a skill all leaders need in complex, global organizations. Managing Across Cultures.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

It helped me a lot in getting ready for case interviews , and now I have an offer from BCG [ Eastern Europe ] and A.T. To transition to another region starting from BCG Eastern Europe, you will have to physically travel to the country you want to work in, to network and interview. Kearney [ Western Europe ].

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Tom Spencer

MAY 16, 2020

This article identifies what lies ahead for graduates considering a future in consulting, and highlights key insights that I gained by interviewing junior and senior consultants. Travel is an alluring carrot that attracts many young people towards consulting. Brace yourself.

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CaseInterview.com

JULY 18, 2019

The Products Operating Group concentrates on Air Freight & Travel Service, Automotive, Consumer Goods & Services, Industrial Equipment, Infrastructure & Transportation Services, Life Sciences, and Retail. The Financial Services Operating Group concerns itself with Banking, Capital Markets and Insurance.

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 26, 2023

This may involve traveling to the client’s site to collect data, interview employees, and examine daily operations. There’s an article in Bloomberg Business Week that outlines how the strategy consulting industry began. This is typically the second step in the problem-solving process.

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CaseInterview.com

APRIL 30, 2019

The first factor is the culture related to your geography (both country and city). At other firms, they often go to the client for meetings, to conduct interviews, gather data, etc. Travel is hard on the lifestyle because you are just not at home. Traveling to the client often involves just taking a taxi or Uber.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 18, 2013

As the next installment in our popular Firm Profile series, we take a look at the evolution, reinvention, and current interview tactics of one of the world’s premier consulting firms – IBM. The division focused on in this article is IBM Global Business Services (IBM GBS). Travel and Transportation. IBM GBS CULTURE.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 17, 2014

And Chinese nationals are leaving in vast waves: Last year, more than 100 million outbound travelers crossed the frontiers. Still, the sheer volume of China''s outbound travel these days, and its massive economic impact, gives it new leverage. Today, China''s borders are wide open. Almost anybody who wants a passport can get one.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 26, 2018

In September, Ellen McGirt published an article in Fortune exploring why there are zero African-American women running Fortune 500 companies. She had been traveling with coworkers for a business trip and they were all on a text chain to coordinate logistics. One woman told me, “My mentors talk to me about dimming my light.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

To create a culture where employees could engage in “thoughtful disagreement” and exchange ideas without creating lasting conflict, even when the ideas were controversial. Take job interviews. To resolve the issue, Dalio started meeting with his employees individually to discuss how to treat one another.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 7, 2017

But over the last two years, as we interviewed over 60 business leaders, what we found is that this feeling never goes away. No matter how senior the person we interviewed, there was always a lingering doubt about the risks and consequences of speaking up. Now, we share what we’ve learned about those who do speak up.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 30, 2016

If you’ve got your heart set on consulting, this article is for you. Dropping these terms in interviews can be good, but only as a Master’s student, and only when appropriately practical. Today, we’re continuing our new series on top undergrad majors, specialized Master’s programs, and U.S.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 31, 2018

Have you ever felt guilty about travelling extensively? Have you ever wished that the money spent traveling could somehow pay dividends? Well, I believe it can pay dividends, so you shouldn’t feel guilty about your past and future travel. But travelling also nurtures and requires key traits that are present in a good consultant.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Apart from their success as entrepreneurs, they all share one distinct characteristic: extensive cross-cultural experience. In a recent study , we investigated a different explanation: Cross-cultural experiences may increase individuals’ capabilities to identify promising business ideas. We randomly assigned them to two groups.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2018

In 2014 we interviewed 34 women engineers in two FTSE 100 firms in the UK. Both have intransigently masculine cultures but have been committed to increasing their numbers of women engineers. In one-to-one, in-depth interviews, we explored why and how women remained in an industry where so many women drop out.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 18, 2018

” In an interview, three CEOs rated as top performers by HBR said the job was 24/7 and admitted they weren’t great role models. With few role models, and cultural expectations arrayed against them, someone like Axelrod had to first imagine something new: how he really wanted to combine work and life. That was in 2008.

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MishTalk

JULY 29, 2013

Hes handy with a shot glass and customers travel from far and wide to admire him at work. I find these kinds of articles fascinating. Rise of Technocrats, Fraudulent Conveyance, MF Global, the Culture of Greed, Christina Romer, and the US Dollar. 2011-04-23: Syndicated Interview on Canadian Radio - My Segment Starts 29:31.

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Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2018

As Stephen Kehoe , Edelman’s Global Chair of Reputation, told me in an interview, “If you are even slightly unaware of how a particular set of stakeholders regards your company, sector, or country of origin, you are at a disadvantage. Working Across Cultures. To Lead Across Cultures, Focus on Hierarchy and Decision Making.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 26, 2017

The DC office management pushes training programs and the culture is all about grooming employees into McKinsey-bred consultants; they do everything they can to stay on top. The BAH office culture is a happy one marked by flexibility and managers who are very supportive and collaborate with the team. Lynn Street in Arlington.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

Dina Bakst, founder of New York–based A Better Balance , is an advocate of making schedules predictable and avoiding telling employees at the last minute that they need to stay late, come in early, or travel on short notice. I spoke with BirchBox’ s VP of People and Culture, Melissa Enbar. ” Related Video.

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Buzzsprout

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In this article, we share dozens of unique podcast topic ideas to help you find the one you can stick with for the long haul! Celebrity interviews Having celebrities on your podcast is a huge draw to new listeners and can help you get featured on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Pop Culture Happy Hour Culture Gabfest 39.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

And they can be very expensive — in addition to overseas business travel, local distribution partner relationships require significant up-front investment to get started and to manage effectively. For example, consider Dez Blanchfield , whom I interviewed. A New Type of Local Partner.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 10, 2017

“The purpose of the interview is to get the offer,” he says. Do I want lots of international travel — or no travel at all? Cultural fit. ” You will not be able to negotiate or change the organization’s culture , of course, but it is helpful to know beforehand what you’re getting into.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2017

What should you say in an interview? Perhaps you didn’t fit in with the company’s culture, or you and your boss didn’t see eye to eye. Say, for instance, your dismissal was due to a personality clash with your manager or a mismatched cultural fit. What the Experts Say. Maybe you made errors in judgment.

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

With over 175 million active users worldwide, Pinterest thrives on providing users with relevant ideas: what to wear, what to cook, how to furnish your home, and where to travel. The next step was to figure out a strategy to reach these goals, and, more broadly, to ensure a culture of belonging and managerial competence in inclusion.

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Harvard Business

MAY 11, 2017

Here are a few of these practices, based on my interviews with experienced military service professionals in various branches and roles. People in careers that demand extended travel and prolonged periods of intense work naturally want to shut off in between projects. Keep work routines consistent — even when they aren’t.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 17, 2018

Being a remote employee myself, and having my entire team also fall into that category, forced me to think differently about how to build team culture and keep everyone engaged and motivated. I traveled to headquarters to meet the team, figure out the culture there, and get a clear sense of who controls what.

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CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

When you’re immersed in a culture (an ethnic culture, a regional culture, an industry culture, a company culture, a family culture, a marital culture), it is very easy to believe that the social hierarchy in that culture is the way things work. that you’re somehow "less" than others.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 6, 2017

To understand how employers can improve engagement and retention, FSG worked with Hart Research Associates to survey over 1,200 entry-level, hourly workers between the ages of 17 and 24, and interviewed dozens of companies to find out how they have improved retention.

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CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Culture : Is the work environment healthy or toxic? However, they tend to have an intense lifestyle with lots of travel, face-to-face engagements, and long hours as a result. If you are interested in a career with a lot of travel, this could be a good place for you. Hours are long, and the culture can be demanding.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

We got under the skin of each organization, to understand how they live and breathe, by interviewing people who work (or worked) with them, observing them in action and reading everything about them. We spent five years interviewing thousands of people, making thousands of observations and reading hundreds of documents.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 22, 2020

Interview Transcript: Betsy: Good afternoon. Well I was born in the United States and traveled and got exposed to a lot of schooling abroad, which obviously ultimately has influenced where I have gone in medicine. Betsy: I remember the first time I traveled with my kids together. I'm so excited you're here. Dr. Pati: Okay.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 5, 2015

CONSULTING INTERVIEWS & CULTURE . Aviation & Travel. CONSULTING CULTURE . are the amount of responsibility Consultant level hires are given from the get go and the low amount of travel their employees do. With regard to travel requirements, L.E.K is very unusual in that it is a very low travel firm.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 20, 2015

Today’s article is brought to you by MC intern Preeti Vemu, an ex-Deloitte consultant who specializes in school and event outreach as well as general nutrition for the (mostly-male) masses at MC. Dan lives in New York and has studied in Israel and lived, worked and traveled in the Arab World. Enjoy their insight! WHY READ IT?

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