Tom Spencer

JULY 27, 2019

Before you seriously consider a consulting career, you should answer three questions: Is consulting the right fit for you (consider your skills and talents as well as preferred lifestyle)? Are you actually competitive for a consulting role (consider your academic history, professional experience, as well as social and leadership skills)?

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Management Consulted

MAY 25, 2014

GALLUP CONSULTING INTERVIEWS AND CULTURE. Toward the end of the year, he created an international values study dealing with the social, moral, and religious attitudes of people throughout most of the major European countries. With a name that evokes the Wild Wild West, Gallup Consulting just sounds like a fun place to work.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 7, 2014

. BRIDGESPAN INTERVIEWS & CULTURE . As a result of the studies that the small team conducted, the proposition was put forth that Bain establish a non-profit practice area which was considered, but ultimately rejected. Leadership Program: Leading for Impact. Leadership Effectiveness. KEY STATS FOR BRIDGESPAN.

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Claris Consulting

JUNE 3, 2019

In a worst-case scenario, should you lose your job because you lack adequate people skills? They had a job interview scheduled for 2:00pm and got caught in traffic. Running late, they arrived for the interview thirty seconds before the interview was scheduled to begin. The receptionist? Sounds brilliant to me.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 16, 2018

She’s an entrepreneur, a CEO, and a teacher — all leadership roles — but when we ask her about her leadership style, she demurs. ” The attitude she’s espousing doesn’t really map to the traditional image of the enterprise leader, or to what typically gets taught in leadership development programs.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

As a VP of sales and marketing for Becker-Birnbaum International, a global consumer products company, Aliyah knew she needed a talented marketing director to support her division’s portfolio of 34 products. As the COO made another well-deserved toast to Anne, Aliyah thought back to her interviews with Ed and Molly. Meeting Ed Yu.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 9, 2014

The firm also launched their Talent Development Division – The Advisory Board Academies – to address “the leadership gap in health care” In 2003, The Advisory Board began to branch out into business intelligence and analytics launching the business Compass in the process. Felsenthal), a Chief Talent Officer (Mary D.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

The prize for best answer was a FREE Consulting Case Bank and The Consulting Bible 3rd edition – a HUGE giveaway – so we weren’t surprised when we heard from so many of you. As we were looking through your responses, we realized you were answering as if you were in an interview – and that’s smart.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 1, 2013

When seeking new talent, Oliver Wyman’s consulting team says they are looking for employees who are driven, risky, and innovative. Have an upcoming Oliver Wyman interview? The firm offers consulting services including strategy, operations, risk management, organizational transformation, and leadership development.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. A recent study of VC firms found that more-diverse teams had higher financial returns than their homogenous counterparts. Sixteen women were interviewed and seven others participated in a focus group. How People Get Ahead.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 27, 2018

In prior research , we at the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that women leave STEM fields in droves: 52% of highly qualified women working for science, technology, or engineering companies leave their jobs. We hear, in interviews and focus groups, that women are consistently spoken over and even robbed of their ideas.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 17, 2017

The business case for diversity is clear. Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. Interviews were recorded and professionally transcribed. For example, Gap Inc.

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 22, 2019

There are lots of little things that separate a candidate who does a good job on a case vs. an excellent job. While it's not necessary to be perfect on every case, it is necessary to come pretty close most of the time. By the time you master the case interview, will you have any interview opportunities left?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

We then conducted a series of in-depth individual interviews, delving into pivotal experiences in their personal history and career progression, and using Korn Ferry’s executive online assessment to measure key personality traits and drivers that had an impact. Women could be ready for the CEO role sooner. But what else did you do?

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 16, 2015

In the interview? A 2006 study at Princeton found that it takes just one tenth of a second for people to make judgements about you based on first impressions. All this, while the other prospects were smartly dressed and gliding along with roller cases. Social Psychologist Amy Cuddy was recently interviewed by Wired Magazine.

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Harvard Business

JULY 13, 2017

Management teams and organizations that prioritize inclusion attract better talent and perform better. Dozens of studies have demonstrated that more-diverse teams make better decisions than less-diverse teams. Hire for talent, not a résumé Inclusive management starts before employees even walk in the door.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Yet a stark gap persists between recognizing the leadership behaviors that unlock this capability and actually practicing them. But that’s just not the case. ” Numerous studies show that diversity alone doesn’t drive inclusion. In the context of the workplace, diversity equals representation. Inclusive leaders.

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Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2017

In coaching, while Eric focused on learning ways to motivate the talent on his team, he didn’t address deeper issues, like his perfectionism, that could hold him back in the long run. In each case, one of us served as the executive coach and worked with the executive to set their individual goals.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 14, 2017

This is particularly the case in biopharmaceuticals, where turning molecules into medicines is notoriously fraught with risk, and failure. After extensive assessment, they settled on two initiatives: realigning incentives for employees and systematically introducing outside talent and practices.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2016

Such skepticism led us to study the impact that analytics has had on our clients over the last 20 years. Frankly, the results surprised us: Only a little more than one in three of the three-dozen companies that we studied met the objectives of their analytics initiatives over the long term.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

To answer this question, I considered several scientific studies of CEO impact. Recent large-scale studies highlight the effects of CEOs on their organizations. Indeed, the consequences of destructive leadership are well documented, and they are most severe at the top. Especially When They Are Bad. In the U.S.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Over the past three years, as part of my forthcoming book , I’ve been researching how leaders can better judge and develop their talent in light of a changing, more purpose-driven, more tech-enabled work environment. In a lot of cases, we owe it to mentees to serve as something more than just career mentors. How do they do that?

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Brimstone Consulting

MARCH 27, 2023

CASE STUDY Telecom Leader Accelerates Business Growth Through Coaching A global telecommunications provider engaged Brimstone to design and facilitate leadership development cohorts, build an inclusive global Sustainability Plan, and coach leaders across the US and Europe.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In a 2013 Deloitte survey of executives at large companies, 39% said they were either “barely able” or “unable” to meet their needs for talent. Cathy Benko, a vice chairman at Deloitte, has been studying the various ways companies are working to prevent a skills crisis while transforming for the digital world.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

During the interview process, you had a singular goal: to get an offer. “Interviews end up being a conversation between two liars,” he explains. Interview your prospective colleagues. “If you identify talented, motivated people who have been there a long time, that is a very good signal.”

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

has found that almost half of the private equity firms it studied replaced the CEOs who ran their portfolio companies, and in 60% of those instances the PE firm hadn’t planned to make the change at the start. Being a quick study is not the same as being a deep thinker. Not seeking CEOs who value talent development.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 31, 2012

Nous service lines include business strategy, public policy, leadership & people development, organisational capability, and information management & technology. If you are studying at a top law school then you can play on that. Case Interviews. Leadership. Pacific Strategy Partners. Founded in 1926, A.T.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2016

In some ways, managing managers is similar to managing anyone else — you need to align their goals with yours, provide feedback, and help them advance their careers, says Sydney Finkelstein, professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and author of Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Manage the Flow of Talent.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Its management consulting services include CRM, finance and performance management, process and innovation performance, risk management, strategy, supply chain management, and talent and organisation performance services. Case Interviews. Leadership. Alpha Financial Markets Consulting. Websites: www.alphafmc.com.

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Harvard Business

JULY 29, 2016

” Worst-case scenarios aside, reference checking often yields “vital” information about the candidate, says Claudio Fernández-Aráoz, a senior adviser at global executive search firm Egon Zehnder and most recently the author of It’s Not the How or the What but the Who: Succeed by Surrounding Yourself with the Best.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Buck Consultants at Xerox offers advisory, technology, and administration solutions to help companies effectively operate talent management programs while engaging employees each individually in his or her health, wealth, and career. BUCK CONSULTANTS INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. Nervous about your case and behavioral interview chances?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2017

But ignoring talent processes and strategies can have unintended consequences and stall one’s scaling efforts. Splunk , a San Francisco-based B2B software firm, is a case in point. Talent matters. ” That’s a process which requires leadership time and resources, not just a speech about talent at an off-site.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2017

But ignoring talent processes and strategies can have unintended consequences and stall one’s scaling efforts. Splunk , a San Francisco-based B2B software firm, is a case in point. Talent matters. ” That’s a process which requires leadership time and resources, not just a speech about talent at an off-site.

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Sales Case Interview Recruiting Recruitment 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 8, 2018

The barriers that keep women out of leadership roles have been well documented. And they’re persistent — increases in women’s share of leadership over time have been in the single digits. The aim of our study was to find out why so few women (less than 30% of theater leadership) are heading up the large U.S.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Many are investing heavily in hiring talent with data skills and building out data proficiency across the organization. Since this is first and foremost the responsibility of leadership, early executive buy-in on becoming a more data-driven company is paramount. As is so often the case, the smallest changes can have the biggest impact.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

The conference’s agenda involves keynotes, presentations, case studies, and interviews with leading pharma experts dealing with project portfolio management. The program of the symposium includes case studies, lessons learned, academic research, actionable tips, and more.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Russell Reynolds Associates, in partnership with Hogan Assessment Systems, has led a research effort to separate myth from reality, identifying key indicators of leadership that have a measurable impact on a company’s growth. Leadership is changing — fast. Sponsored by Cognizant.

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