Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Spillovers jam the signals in the economy, misdirecting talented students. This can lead to severe misallocations of the talent pool — arguably a nation’s most valuable asset. What policies can encourage talented workers to choose socially beneficial careers? Our paper applies this idea to the allocation of talent.

Policies 28

Policies Talent Government Research 28

1 to 1

MARCH 21, 2023

The event, held live after a three-year hiatus, is so named because it focuses on the four pillars of experience management: customer, employee, brand, and product experience. Another speaker who underscored the intersection of CX and EX was Penny Stoker, talent leader, executive functions, at global consulting firm EY.

Report 26

Report Healthcare Airlines Trends 26

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Tobacco production, the country’s main foreign exchange earner, slumped dramatically between 2000 and 2008.) Moreover, having regularly defaulted on its debts, few international institutions are willing to lend to the government, forcing it to rely on poorly capitalized local banks.

Government 28

Government Banking System Finance 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 6, 2018

We have seen that redesign in Kenya, where MPESA, a mobile money solution , has emerged as the most important banking institution without a bank license. Across the region, banks are closing branches but expanding their digital channels as customers increasingly move online. Even in agriculture, digital technology is working.

Telecommunications 28

Telecommunications Banking Knowledge Base Data 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

We focus on economic profit rather than revenue size, market share, or productivity growth because these other metrics risk including firms that are simply large and may not create economic value. Productivity can help; but it is not enough to achieve superstardom. and Chinese tech firms.

Industry 33

Industry Company Metrics Real Estate 33

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

— for example the study of the ethnic composition of boards in corporate America by Richie Zweigenhaft — studies of immigrant leadership talent are still scarce. This lack of study is particularly troubling given that nearly 60% of American companies are facing leadership talent shortages that are impeding their performance.

Data 29

Data Healthcare Talent Training 29

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Like today, finance in the 1990s and early 2000s attracted many of the sharpest quantitative minds, who produced remarkable theoretical and methodological advances. Furthermore, foundational underpinnings of quantitative finance — for example, elementary logical bounds on the prices of securities — broke down.

Financial 30

Financial Data Finance Engineering 30

Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

Since then, we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks who follow technology companies. This notion, that risk is a desirable feature, can seem like sacrilege to anyone who’s taken an introductory finance course.

Financial 28

Financial Report Cash Flow Metrics 28

Management Consulted

JULY 2, 2017

Both the Boston and New York offices work in conjunction with industries across the northeast regions in area such as telecommunications, financial services, private equity, e-commerce, consumer products, and healthcare, among others. Like Deloitte, its presence in Boston is quite strong even though EY’s US headquarters is in NYC.

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Oliver Wyman Mercer Consulting Deloitte 72

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

As consulting firms go, FTI Consulting is a newcomer – but at just over 30 years old, the firm has made impressive strides to become one of the most respected name in legal analysis and data-driven research to support major initiatives for law firms, banks and the majority of the Fortune 500. Corporate Finance/Restructuring.

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Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Tom Spencer

AUGUST 17, 2019

At the time I only associated it with cryptocurrency and banking. And so I had a moment while listening to the recording of that interview that I realized the many industries it could participate in outside of finance, it also showed up in energy and even healthcare. Let’s take a product, a banana, as an example.

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Case Interview Retail Examples Sales 60

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

The office is incredibly diverse, with some of the best talent from 35+ countries and folks that speak 29 languages. Bank of New York, AIG, Depository Trust, Standard & Poor’s, etc.). The main industries served out of New York include Public Services, Products, and not surprisingly, the Financial Industry.

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Consulting Deloitte Bain McKinsey 157

Confessions of a Consultant

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

Final Countdown: For this final blog I’ve taken the liberty to select two topics (a) Improving your personal performance (b) developing a highly productive organisation. Lesson #2: Improving Organisation Productivity: Managing people and organisations is a science. In my experience it’s never about sectors or product type.

Engineering 40

Engineering Benchmarking Course Productivity 40

Harvard Business

MAY 19, 2016

While hiring less-skilled workers hurts a firm’s productivity, the data shows that companies still did this in order to take advantage of the fact that hiring these workers is so much cheaper. On the other hand, firms are more interested in hiring workers with these STEM skills, as they are very productive and cheap.

Education 33

Education Data Training Training 33

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

In today’s hiring market, a generous benefits package is essential for attracting and retaining top talent. You don’t need to break the bank to offer attractive extras. Contrary to what employers might expect, unlimited time off doesn’t necessarily equal less productive employees and more time out of the office.

Insurance 46

Insurance Insurance Survey Policies 46

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 15, 2017

In one illustration of these difficulties, consider that India currently ranks 100 out of 190 countries in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business rankings, 22 places behind China, 39 places behind Indonesia, and just nine places above Papua New Guinea. India is a large, fragmented, and heterogeneous market.

Strategy 28

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Operations 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2018

Back east, established firms worked with big banks to launch new enterprises. Her lab had discovered new ways to convert carbon emissions into useful products, and they believed the technology had enormous commercial potential. All they had were some chemistry papers, scientific data, and an idea to change the world.

Nonprofit 28

Nonprofit Engineering Industry Finance 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 24, 2017

Through a coordinated, systemic, prolonged intervention with dozens of institutions and thousands of individual participants, new growth of the local companies we trained has directly created over 1033 jobs, fueled by dozens of new private sector financings. strategic hires). day, scale-focused workshops and related activities.

Training 28

Training Training Banking Balance Sheet 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Cross-functional analytics can be a challenge to implement for a variety of reasons including functional silos and a shortage in analytics talent. As an example, a consumer products company used a weekly executive management meeting as the forum to discuss the CoE’s insights and make decisions based on the outputs.

Enterprise 28

Enterprise Metrics Analysis Survey 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 6, 2018

While some companies — most large banks, Ford and GM, Pfizer, and virtually all tech firms — are aggressively adopting artificial intelligence, many are not. The transition from pilots and prototypes to production systems for AI can be difficult and time-consuming. Paul Bradbury/Getty Images.

Company 28

Company System Engineering Data 28

Management Consulted

APRIL 6, 2014

An ERP system is an enterprise business management software program that organizes and tracks large company’s resources (cash, raw materials, production capacity, etc.) It helps facilitate error-free transactions and production (before ERP, people actually used odd things like pens, paper and ledgers to keep track of their stuff).

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PricewaterhouseCoopers IBM GBS Case Interview Interviews 221

Harvard Business

MAY 11, 2016

The result, at least in developed nations, is a highly unequal corporate landscape, where some firms are incredibly productive and the amount of money a person makes is tied to the company they work for, not just the job that they do. And this growing productivity gap shows up within industries, not just between them.

McKinsey 28

McKinsey Engineering Enterprise Research 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2016

Directors are also consistent in their views of the key challenges to achieving their companies’ strategic objectives: attracting and retaining top talent, the regulatory environment, and domestic competitive threats top the list for directors from both parties. banking & financial services, insurance, real estate); Healthcare (e.g.,

Telecommunications 28

Telecommunications Biotechnology Survey Healthcare 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

When Bernstein hid a set of production lines from managers’ view, the performance of employees on those lines increased by 10% to 15%. They will represent the products more consistently. Three finance professors once asked more than 400 executives what they would do if their quarterly earnings targets were at risk.

Metrics 33

Metrics Engineering Operations Sales 33

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Third, not speaking out on certain issues adversely threatens an organization’s ability to hire talent, especially those coveted Millennials. The finance sector has also been active in responding on all five occasions. Charlottesville , DACA ), and Bank of America (e.g., But tech isn’t the only sector speaking out.

Travel 28

Travel Policies Media Examples 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2017

The closet in Mark’s bedroom offers a glimpse into his three-decade career in finance. The 50-year-old has been collecting suits, bow ties, and scarves in yellow, orange, pink, and other rainbow hues since he started working for the bank in the 1980s. Inside the Work Wardrobes of Five Fabulous Men Mark. But this yellow bow tie.

Fashion 32

Fashion Research Interviews Meeting 32