Management Consulted

AUGUST 28, 2013

He began by helping firms recruit competent executives, acquire new customers, and establish conducive office space. After 2 years, he recruited 2 friends from Chicago and formed the Business Research and Development Company with $500 borrowed from the bank. Operations and Logistics. Organization and Change. Program Management.

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Interviews Culture Company Case Interview 181

Management Consulted

AUGUST 1, 2013

After building a successful model in financial services, Oliver Wyman expanded to offer pure strategy consulting services to non-financial services groups and now has 2 internal divisions that operate relatively independently. Strategic Information Technology and Operations. Oliver Wyman became own firm again. Mercer buys Oliver Wyman.

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Oliver Wyman Interviews Mercer NERA Economic Consulting 201

Management Consulted

JANUARY 20, 2014

However, today BearingPoint is emerging as a player in the operations and technology scene, especially in Europe, and has re-established an impressive growth trajectory. Now, BearingPoint is operated as a Netherlands-based partnership which consisted of 120 partners in 14 countries throughout Europe. Supply Chain & Operations.

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BearingPoint Interviews Oliver Wyman Capgemini 139

The Nonprofit Consultant

MAY 25, 2006

Liz Heath, executive director of The Nonprofit Center in Tacoma, Washington, has an article in the Tacoma News Tribune advising nonprofits to let future board members in on whole truth. Many times we're anxious to recruit new talent to our boards, so we soft-pedal the requirements and expectations.

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Recruiting Recruitment Nonprofit Talent 40

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 30, 2016

If you’ve got your heart set on consulting, this article is for you. If you’re an undergrad with a desire to break in to consulting, an economics degree will train your mind to tackle problems and make you an attractive prospect for internships and Masters’ programs. P&G, Coca Cola etc.).

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Consulting Engineering Finance Case Interview 100

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

The practice areas at Towers Watson reflect the operational nature of consulting projects at the firm: Communication and Change Management. with over 54 offices in operation. Your work fits squarely inside the HR vertical, which is usually somewhere down the food chain of the Operations division of the vision. Practice Areas.

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Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

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! It’s unfortunate, but my flight training isn’t reflected in my GPA. When I went through my flight training I was at the top of my class. Hey Beau – I’m excited to talk to you today. Let’s see here.

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Consulting Resumes Bain Recruiting 125

Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2018

The company has also hired hundreds of workers to revamp production processes, train (and retrain) the robots, and swap them out when needed, among other tasks. The worker must also possess robotics and controls engineering skills, according to our analysis of Tesla’s recent recruiting efforts. Some Training Required.

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Engineering Training Training Analysis 38

Management Consulted

MARCH 26, 2017

Although historically not known for consulting services (unless you were consulting – ahem, lobbying – government officials), strategy, operations, and even tech consulting have exploded inside and outside the Beltway in the last 10 years. – Washington, DC.

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Oliver Wyman Consulting Deloitte Bain 100

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Moving from economic consulting to a more broad-based focus may be a bit tricky, as you have superior experience in one particular facet, but minimal experience in others – and no experience in actual operational changes that are the bread and butter of most major consulting firms. Our recommendation? Internships.

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Interviews Research Culture Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2017

When Army 2nd Lieutenant Joseph Riley was a senior at the University of Virginia, he ranked 10th out of 5,579 in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) National Order of Merit List. military over the last 250 years can, at times, make recruitment and retention difficult. We faced geographic and awareness challenges.

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Talent Recruiting Recruitment Training 34

Harvard Business

JUNE 15, 2018

The supply chain is the heart of a company’s operations. Rio Tinto, the global mining-and-metals company, is exploring how digital technologies can automate mine-to-port operations. For a small number of leading retail companies’ control towers have become the nerve center of their operations.

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Management Retail Operations Data 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The other creates output for machines to consume like models, training data, and algorithms. Data science for machines: here the consumers of the output are computers which consume data in the form of training data, models, and algorithms. Modeling scientist: Models, training data, algorithms. They are decision scientists.

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Data Engineering Software Metrics 45

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

These goals include aiming for Yelp’s sales teams to match the composition of the diverse communities in which they operate, increasing its proportion of female engineers, and making its culture more inclusive. The figure at the end of this article gives an idea of what companies might report as a start.

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Recruiting Recruitment Interviews Engineering 28

Harvard Business

JULY 29, 2016

They start recruiting like incumbents. Once systems are in place and the company stabilizes, many companies begin to highlight this in recruiting. Somehow it has become a good thing that they are big and bureaucratic, and rely on complex systems to operate. Recruit the “black sheep.” We are a winner.

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Recruiting Recruitment System Talent 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 1, 2016

One large media organization faces large incumbent players and operates in a market that is growing quickly. Rather than using traditional top-down management practices, the company organized itself into small business units, each of which operates in a local geography. We call this operating structure the “network of teams.”

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Leadership Metrics Operations Culture 28

The Nonprofit Consultant

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Operating from a perspective of poverty, tragedy and crisis. Here's a quick look at six months of strategic, happy, thinking: The old mission statement: "We recruit, train and support volunteer host home families to shelter abused, neglected and at-risk children and youth." An old non-profit. Slogging along. But to what purpose?

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Recruiting Recruitment Case Study Case Studies 66

Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2017

” In the workplace, this “can stymie diversity, recruiting, promotion, and retention efforts.” To begin, you’ll need to understand what hiring prejudices are and how they operate. Gino recommends managers look into providing workers with education and training on the topic.

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Case Interview Interviews Resumes Software 28

Management Consulted

MAY 10, 2015

A global firm with a very interesting history, they’re known for motivating, developing and training their clients’ staff as well as the for research they carry out on the companies they work with. The Hay Group carried on growing for the next 20 years, expanding its operations and its global reach. HAY GROUP INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING.

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Groups Interviews Culture Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

While nonprofits, often starved for general operating funds, can’t match pharma’s marketing budgets, a recent Bridgespan study argues that it’s time they and their funders heed business findings on increasing noise in the marketplace and the need to make any new offering, even a life-saving one, stand out. A team of U.S.

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Nonprofit Wireless Training Training 33

Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2018

Real-world applications range from medical diagnoses and judicial sentencing to professional recruiting and resource allocation in public agencies. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Is this revolution a good thing? So what’s going on here?

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Research Policies Study Data 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2016

I’d argue that companies already know how to improve employee experience: All they have to do is apply to their HR practices the principles of customer experience design that their marketing and operations teams probably already use. onboarding (orientation and initial training). pre-boarding. compensation and benefits.

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Benchmarking Culture Groups Operations 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2016

The operational problems caused by understaffing will stymie attempts to lower costs and reduce service. Standardizing routine processes and providing enough equipment, training, and time would help employees do their work properly. Cross-training allows employees to do useful work even when there are no customers.

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Retail Training Training Productivity 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency. Go and See.

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Agile Software Case Interview Video 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Hoping to alleviate their concerns, this article also provides concrete examples of how sustainability benefits the bottom line. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. ” Improving risk management. Water-related risks threaten to strand billions of dollars for mining, oil, and gas companies.

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Study Efficiency Productivity Operations 28

Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2018

There was no need to make a telephone call to a distant operator; all the farmer needed to do was log in and order. Farmers, alone for hours on end in the fields driving their tractors, looked forward to calling the operator to place their orders. AgriCo’s online platform failed dramatically. They enjoyed the company.

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Case Interview Metrics Operations Strategy 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

trillion, it’s clear why the battle to recruit from this scarce group has become the industry’s defining challenge. Machine learning challenges have significantly increased in complexity since then and it takes years of training and experience to develop a well-honed intuition that can sniff these problems out.

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How To Research Intellectual Property Talent 28

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. Lots of things – from strategy, operations, and risk management to organizational transformation and leadership development.

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Oliver Wyman Mercer Consulting Deloitte 72

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Do you sweat when nervously thinking about how Disney can expand its operations in Brazil? I knew your course focused on strategy consulting – but after reading everything you covered, I figured much of the stuff would overlap with technology and operations consulting too. ” -Giulia, Chicago Booth alum. 159-160).

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Case Interview Bain McKinsey Interviews 175

Harvard Business

AUGUST 19, 2016

This includes introducing community policing; training officers in de-escalation skills and the use of non-lethal tactics; increasing the diversity of departments; improving data collection and public transparency; and enhancing the screening of police recruits. So why have most police departments failed to embrace these reforms? .”

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2016

Digital transformation halts, or fails, for many reasons—but most often it’s because minor changes at the surface level do nothing to affect the fundamental operations of a company. In consulting, leaders invest in hiring and training people and then carefully track how they use their time.

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Industry Metrics Transportation Strategy 28

Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2016

But for the most part, recruiters aren’t calling. developing the business plan and go-to-market strategy that has enabled us to maintain 100% ownership, operate part-time, grow it slowly over 20 years, and win Sam Adams’s 2016 “Brewing and Business Experienceship” year-long mentorship prize. BREWERY START-UP.

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Resumes Interviews Cover Letters Recruiting 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

When a private equity firm adds a new company to its portfolio, analysts rigorously size up its financial, operational, and competitive condition. But CEOs at the best-run PE-owned firms we’ve worked with emphasize both recruiting and talent development. However, Hayek didn’t push training on them.

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Company Engineering Turnaround System 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Controlling for startup age, industry, operating status, and other factors that can affect funding amounts (like entrepreneur age, gender, degree of work experience, and whether or not they are serial entrepreneurs), an increase in team disruptiveness predicted an additional $38.3 million in aggregate funding raised by the startup.

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Resources Data Productivity Financial 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 7, 2017

A recent Recode article provides an interesting perspective on the evolution of HR at Uber. It suggests that Kalanick initially saw the HR function as a means of recruiting staff to support fast growth. If risky managerial behaviors are tolerated while HR focuses on recruitment, those behaviors can be seen as accepted.

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Recruiting Recruitment Finance Agile 41

Harvard Business

JUNE 22, 2016

Meanwhile, the laggards continue to spend their time and money on assets that do not scale so easily — physical goods (such as manufacturing plants or inventory) and human capital (such as highly trained employees that deliver services). There’s no question why legacy organizations are tackling digital transformation now.

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How To Metrics Pharmaceuticals Hotels 35

Harvard Business

AUGUST 9, 2018

Today, for example, social media companies are expected to uncover and remove terrorist recruitment videos and messages almost instantly. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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