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From STEM PhD to Federal Consulting: An Interview with Josh

Management Consulted

Well, I grew up in Bethesda, MD, and attended the University of Vermont in Burlington, VT for – BS (finance), MS (nutritional sciences), and PhD (cell and molecular biology). There’s no “hiring season” to follow, no case studies to prepare for, and frequently, candidates are hired to fill a specific position for an ongoing contract.

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Cornerstone Research Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Consumer Fraud and Product Liability. Many former employees go on to programs in business, finance, economics and law. The second round interview is structured the same as the first, only the case will be more involved (think profitability cases and econometric questions). Case Studies. Accounting.

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

Royal Dutch Philips is a $20B diversified consumer electronics, healthcare, and lighting products company. He reset collaborative P&L metrics and business review processes, shared by the region leaders and the global product leaders, to form tight “business handshakes,” that he regards as the center of a granular set of growth strategies.

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Resolving Executive Conflict: Finding a Path Forward

Confessions of a Consultant

Indeed, several organizations have attempted to harness the power of internal friction e.g. ‘Constructive Confrontation’ in Intel has been widely publicized and ‘Straight Talk’ in Pfizer plays a very similar role. Derogatory: “Finance: where ideas go to die”. Case Study: I worked with a financial services client on a strategy project.

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The “Smart Society” of the Future Doesn’t Look Like Science Fiction

Harvard Business

Collectively, the D5 nations serve two important purposes for our project: They give us a way to construct a global benchmark that can be used to assess D5 nations and other countries, and they each offer a case study and model for what smart can look like. The outcomes of this exercise are shown in the exhibits below.