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Emerging Technology in the Accounting Industry: Instrument not Obstacle

Tom Spencer

This can be seen from their graduate recruitment process. Recruitment screening assessments increasingly ask how candidates, as newly appointed auditors, would use emerging technologies. In recent years, the Big 4 accounting firms have placed an increasing emphasis on emerging technology.

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Consulting Case Interviews at Non-Consulting Firms

Tom Spencer

As such, I’ve increasingly seen case interviews being used to recruit for corporate strategy roles in all sectors and business operation (“BizOps”) roles at startups. Now, case interviews for non-consulting industries tend to really intimidate candidates. Why are case interviews so similar across industries?

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A.T. Kearney Interview & Culture

Management Consulted

Kearney becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of EDS in September, nearly doubling in size and vastly expanding its industry expertise and information technology capabilities. 1997 – First Global Prize, an annual business school case study competition for potential recruits, awarded. Industries. Practice Areas.

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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business

We chose Brazil’s beef industry as the location of our case study , both for the size and complexity of the industry and for its impact on the planet. We found that sustainable and deforestation-free practices created significant financial benefits for all players in the industry’s value chain.

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Cornerstone Research Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Note the diversity of industries Cornerstone Research works with, especially as many of these are quite specialized. Industries. However, the cases that these law firms are involved in can represent any industry imaginable, from telecommunications to manufacturing and everything in between. Accounting. Real Estate.

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Want Less-Biased Decisions? Use Algorithms.

Harvard Business

Real-world applications range from medical diagnoses and judicial sentencing to professional recruiting and resource allocation in public agencies. ” 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.

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How to Convince Your Boss to Let You Work from Home

Harvard Business

The 9-to-5, Monday-to-Friday schedule has its “origins in the Industrial Revolution,” says Nicholas Bloom, a Stanford University professor. ” But, in fact, research suggests the opposite: Working from home increases productivity, efficiency, and engagement. What the Experts Say.

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