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Case Study: Should an Algorithm Tell You Who to Promote?

Harvard Business

After working with HR to narrow down the list of candidates, she had two finalists, both internal: Molly Ashworth, a brand manager on her team in the cleaning division, and Ed Yu, a rising star from BBI’s beauty division. Aliyah liked Molly and respected her work. “No problem,” she said. “Shall we get started?”

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Transitioning from Management Consulting to Corporate Strategy/M&A – the Decision Making Process

Tom Spencer

Especially if your first job is management consulting as you will be presented with many opportunities to jump into industry. My primary career philosophy is to manage my career like an experiment. When making career decisions, I prioritize myself over the interests of my parents, manager, company, or others.

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Can Consulting Make a Positive Social Impact?

Tom Spencer

Similarly, in traditional management consulting roles, employees often utilize the latest tools to solve their clients’ problems, often without considering the impacts beyond the client themselves. Let us look at an example as a sort of case study. Thus, there are inherent challenges in funding these types of ventures.

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Outsourcing vs. managed services: Knowing the difference will save you time and money

1 to 1

Outsourcing and managed services are appealing options for many companies at a time when workforces are stretched thin. Although managed services and outsourcing both involve hiring a partner organization, they encompass different levels of work. What are managed services? But don’t be fooled—these terms aren’t interchangeable.

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4 Ways to Develop Practical Business Understanding for Consulting

Management Consulted

A prospective management consultant without basic business understanding is like a camera tripod with 2 legs — it just won’t work out for you. The McKinsey Way by Ethan Rasiel — In this book, Rasial uses case studies and anecdotes to describe how McKinsey thinks about and solves business problems. management consulting'

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Why Your Employees Aren't Committed to Your Company Strategy

Organizational Talent Consulting

When leaders solicit ideas from others outside the traditionally involved management team, it improves the creativity of the ideas and reinforces that leaders value employees. Ideas are tagged and compared through comparison sorts. Solid project management processes can help leaders avoid the trap of over-analysis. Refinement.

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Are you a Loser, Struggler, Con Artist, or Winner?

The Fearless Marketer

It is more likely true if the management gives full buy-in to the program. • Stories – Give testimonials or case studies of how your service has improved your clients’ condition. Comparison. Sounds good, but the client is wondering if it’s really true. Well, it might be true in certain contexts and not true in others.