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. One risk in consulting is becoming a jack of all trades.

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CaseInterview.com

JULY 16, 2019

I also follow-up with some advice on the importance of developing your analytical problem solving skills. As I was about to travel overseas on volunteer work, I had a very condensed interview process with each firm (including one day with 6 straight case interviews in 8 hours!) Success Story.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 18, 2015

1997 – First Global Prize, an annual business school case study competition for potential recruits, awarded. Kearney aims to provide support for companies by helping them stay ahead of new market developments and positioning them to capture new opportunities. Transportation & Travel. Firm hires 2,000th employee. Innovation.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 25, 2019

I applied outside the main recruiting period (BCG takes applicants all year round) and so my process was dragged across 3 months. Equipped with your structures, I personalized and developed them to suit my own style. rather than interning during my summers, I had travelled, run projects overseas, etc.)

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 21, 2019

Consulting firms are in the business of renting out brains--so attracting and developing world-class business brainpower are mission-critical priorities. Private equity firms also enjoy recruiting former consultants. The second challenge is continuing to grow and develop amid potentially strict up-or-out policies.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Also – scroll down to the end of the article and see what came out of our conversation just 3 weeks after we talked! People will just take a little bit of time and travel, or something like that. So I started searching for programs that consulting firms recruit from. Hey Beau – I’m excited to talk to you today.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 10, 2017

“Think about the offer in terms of your development, your quality of life, and the variety of the work you want to do.” ” Databases and job search websites, such as Glassdoor, Indeed, Ladders, and Salary.com are a good starting point, but Lees recommends talking to recruiters and headhunters and others in the industry.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

To check out our London video with in-person testimonies (with awesome accents), make sure to read on to the end of the article… The trip started off on the right note – Michelle got her first-ever upgrade to First Class. It’s good to travel with an ex-consultant! Thank you, Delta Platinum status!

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Management Consulted

MARCH 26, 2017

The Washington, DC office’s recruitment team hires highly intelligent people who start as great communicators but are trainable. The range of services this office provides includes general strategy, post-merger integration, organizational change, and corporate development. McKinsey – is notably skewed more private sector.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 3, 2017

” Judging by the headlines and opening lines of recent articles and business books, digital is about to disrupt your industry and you with it – unless you act now (and buy the book). Travel to Singapore, for example, and you will see why. And, in fact, I don’t disagree – at least not entirely.

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Management Consulted

JULY 2, 2017

We’ve reviewed locations, employee counts, industry focus, and reputation of multiple firms in and around the Boston area – and this article will help you make life-changing decisions. Extravagant meals are covered while on business travel and teams have budgets to have fun events to get to know each other.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 26, 2017

To add to that, the groups are far apart on basic elements such as recruiting, hiring, training, and role alignment. Simultaneously, sales managers went through a series of development sessions to develop their coaching skills. They changed their hiring/recruiting efforts.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2017

We are working with a large travel and tourism firm to introduce a system for real-time employee feedback. At EY, where some of us work, we have developed a tool for social media analytics called SMAART that is able to understand sentiment within consumer and influencer groups. Build a Dashboard.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 10, 2018

… So, as we were recruiting for employees, we definitely took into account where they lived.” Likewise, frequently changing work schedules may disrupt precarious travel arrangements for otherwise productive workers. Are there similar programs that could be developed for lower-wage workers as well?

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2017

A few years later they were caught napping when online upstarts disrupted industries such as music, travel, news, and video, while transforming scores of others. For example, early efforts of companies developing chatbots for Facebook’s Messenger platform saw 70% failure rates in handling user requests.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

And, like many of the 84 businesses we also studied, they find great things to do and then share them with the world through books, articles and films. They also recruit from outside their sector to bring in new knowledge and experience. The Disruptive Edge: Experts, nervousness, accidents. So, we try to help people make that switch.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 18, 2021

Computer science and computer engineering students might take a break from developing algorithms and instead develop code for a technology firm. Humanities and social science majors might want to develop new skills serving as an administration intern for government or academia. Build Your Network. Find Career Mentors.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Here are just a few examples: The travel ban on citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries, which has raised fears among U.S. corporations (including Amazon , Nike , and MasterCard ) that increasing discrimination will leave them unable to recruit, retain, and develop talent.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 18, 2018

I’m going to push more responsibility onto them, which should help them develop faster. The flexible schedule has allowed him to be active in his neighborhood and faith community, and gave him the courage to ask his boss for a six-month sabbatical to travel the country with his family. “Reluctantly, they said OK to me.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

For example, when James Wolfensohn first became president of the World Bank, in 1995, he went on fact-finding trips to developing countries to understand the kinds of projects that the bank was doing. After several visits he realized that he was only being shown successful projects, smiling villagers, and grateful government officials.

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

Service increasingly was hit or miss, and Forbes Travel Guide issued a preliminary rating that would have docked the restaurant a star. Over the years, I have developed just such a template. In the case of the recruiting issue, we made faster hiring a competition, rewarding individuals and teams that showed the best results.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

The list includes a health care company that was once near bankruptcy (DaVita), a software firm whose stock price stagnated for a decade (Microsoft), a travel website that faced overwhelming competition (Priceline), a food giant that seemed to lose its focus (Danone), and a steel company that faced new pressure from lower-cost rivals (ThyssenKrupp).

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Cadillac’s “ The Only Way to Travel ” campaign in the 90’s). We think that the shift from leisure-as-status to busyness-as-status may be linked to the development of knowledge-intensive economies. In one study, we purposely recruited an international sample of participants drawn from Italy and the U.S.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Relocating for a job can often be “great for your personal and professional development,” but it’s also “a risk and a leap into the unknown.” Do you want to spend your weekends traveling? ” Consider your development. ” he says. Think holistically. .” Or do you prefer a big city?

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 18, 2013

IBM was founded in 1911 and has a rich history of ingenuity, deep convictions, premier research and development, and trend setting. The division focused on in this article is IBM Global Business Services (IBM GBS). Travel and Transportation. Travel to client locations are required. Revenue: $20B+ (2011). IBM GBS HISTORY.

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CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

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. Learning and development opportunities are integrated into day-to-day duties. Employee Satisfaction. women and 49.6%

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 26, 2017

By doing so they avoid the delays associated with information and approvals traveling up and down the management hierarchy. In this article, we will present a simple logic to follow when addressing the centralization versus decentralization issue. ” But which exactly are “only those tasks”?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

In fact, a quick Google search leads to many press articles claiming a female advantage. In order to do so, we recruited 66 females and 82 males aged between 18 and 60 years old and we asked them to carry out the CMPT. Daniel Grizelj/Getty Images. According to popular stereotypes, women are better multitaskers.

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Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2016

As the company added more titles and expanded its product line, it developed an ecosystem rooted in the wholesale purchase of goods; huge, strategically located fulfillment centers; and contracts with national and regional carriers who shipped its products throughout the U.S. and to other countries.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 15, 2018

Each cook is highly trained and selectively recruited, yet he or she will only be tasked with producing a few components, and will practice hundreds of times under direct supervision before achieving the necessary level of craftsmanship. books and cooking gadgets), developing brand partnerships, and opening more restaurants.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Consumer markets in the developing world are an enormous but still-untapped opportunity for companies seeking new sources of growth. billion rural consumers and about 3 billion of them live in developing countries in Asia and Africa. Within that group is an even more overlooked opportunity: the rural consumer. Worldwide, there are 3.4

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 27, 2017

We publish a lot of articles based on new research (you may have noticed). Read the full article. The methodology: Career center questionnaires were completed by 355 incoming business school students (241 men and 114 women) regarding their job preferences (desired compensation, hours of work, and days per month of travel).

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

In the first study, we recruited 296 people online, half of whom had lived abroad for a minimum of three months, and half of whom had not. We developed a new scale to measure these reflections, and our data showed that people who had lived abroad had engaged in them more than people who had never lived abroad. ”

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Management Consulted

APRIL 5, 2015

Aviation & Travel. 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. CONSULTING INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING . Marketing & Sales.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Kirsty Traill, the company’s VP Customer, explains that this practice not only assesses candidates and ensures that every new employee is aligned to customer-centric thinking, but also sends a clear message to everyone — recruits and hiring managers alike — about the importance of customer experience at the company.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 6, 2017

Despite the current political headwinds blowing against globalization, companies continue to recruit talent from around the world and talented people continue to want overseas work experience. Cat Yu for HBR. For firms, it’s become imperative to look beyond geographic borders to attract and retain top talent.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

The order is the latest development in a long-running debate over how companies use the H-1B program and how it affects American workers. Being able to recruit globally is supposed to help tech powerhouses like Facebook and Amazon find the talent they need. For comparison, they hold around 0.6%–0.7% jobs overall.)

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