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A.T. Kearney Interview & Culture

Management Consulted

KEARNEY INTERVIEW AND CULTURE. 1997 – First Global Prize, an annual business school case study competition for potential recruits, awarded. Their focus is on: structure and governance, processes, technology enablement, resource configuration and capabilities and culture. Culture, culture, culture.

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IBM Consulting Interviews: Navigating the IBM GBS Maze

Management Consulted

They were a management consulting firm whose clients were chemical and petroleum companies. The firm has also grown so much, so fast that its culture has lost focus and the pursuit of so many strategies at once have left many clients unsure of what exactly IBM GBS offers at the end of the day. Chemicals and Petroleum.

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How Royal DSM Is Improving Its Geographic and Gender Diversity

Harvard Business

Fostering corporate cultures which make half your employees feel somewhere between unengaged and unsafe is becoming risky and unsustainable. Dutch-based Royal DSM is a case study of multiple parallel transformations – in their business and in their leadership balance. The CEO is convinced that the one feeds the other.

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

The company grew through brilliant marketing, brand acquisitions, innovation and a decentralized geographic set of business units that helped create an entrepreneurial culture out in the markets. As senior leadership peeled back the organizational onion, a clear case for change emerged in 2013. 2: Shed the Layers (vertical health).

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