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Case Study: Follow Dubious Orders or Speak Up?

Harvard Business

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. “When I saw him speak, he talked about how important ethics were in this field.” Moon’s team, but there had been complications with her visa.

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The Right Attitude for Case Interviews

CaseInterview.com

Email: My success is really your success at case preparation. Preparation: - LOMS and McKinsey's Problem Solving Test for the case studies (four weeks). Personally, I found the best case interviews [ in LOMS ] to be the most helpful. My first case interview was the weakest of the three cases.

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Advisory Board Company Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

The final division, the Performance Technologies area, is a suite of analytic web applications that provide insights for operational visibility, identify improvement opportunities, and make timely course corrections across a variety of terrains, including: Physician issues. Need help preparing flawless hero stories or nailing case interviews?

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How to Manage a Toxic Employee

Harvard Business

” Of course, your first step as a manager should be to avoid hiring toxic people in the first place , but once they’re on your team, it can be hard to get rid of them. Of course, you should always hope that the person can change but not everyone will respond to the tactics listed above. The whole team suffers because of it.”

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Unnecessary Surgeries? You Bet! Doctors Treat Patients as ATMs; US Healthcare System Explained in Six Succinct Points

MishTalk

A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that profits urologists make from referring patients to their own radiation facilities play an outsized role in the treatment decisions. One third of men whose doctors own radiation equipment get the therapy at a cost of about $35,000 per treatment course.

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Avoiding Costly Business Mistakes With Consultants

Business Consulting Agency

A single misstep, whether in product quality, customer service, or ethical considerations, can tarnish a brand’s image irreparably. Case Studies: The Tangible Impact of Business Consulting Financial Turnaround: A struggling manufacturing company sought the expertise of a business consultant to address financial challenges.

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Want Less-Biased Decisions? Use Algorithms.

Harvard Business

” In each of these case studies, the data scientists did what sounds like an alarming thing: They trained their algorithms on past data that is surely biased by historical prejudices. Of course, we should be doing all we can to eradicate institutional bias and its pernicious influence on decision-making algorithms.