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Selecting senior managers for a new UTC Management Team – Case Study

People Business Psychology

Selection assessment for a new University Technical College – Case Study Situation A UK-based new-to-be-launched University Technical College (UTC) in Wiltshire (UK), needed to appoint two new key members of its management to join the Principal Designate and complement the UTC’s Senior Management team.

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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. Thus, they work towards creating or upgrading current purchasing processes to enhance efficiency and maximize savings. KEARNEY INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING.

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Cornerstone Research Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

These skill development tools will not only make you a more efficient worker, but will also show initiative and help move you up the ladder more quickly. The potential for cross-office cases exists as well, where you will have to work with supervisors who do not know you and are often expect more of you than they do of their own teams.

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Consulting Case Interviews at Non-Consulting Firms

Tom Spencer

Consulting-style case interviews are highly effective, and the same format is being adopted more and more widely. The major consultancies have converged on a largely identical interview style, precisely because it excels in picking out the most genuinely capable candidates from the huge pools of applications received.

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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. Nonetheless, the case study demonstrates that measuring the value of sustainable business can be done, and that sustainable business itself can be cost-effective.

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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. A similar conclusion was reached by Bo Cowgill at Columbia Business School when he studied the performance of a job-screening algorithm at a software company ( forthcoming research ).

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Advice on Running a Government Agency Like a Startup, from Someone Who’s Tried It

Harvard Business

Godbout: I have yet to see the case study of massive change management of innovation where a group of people came in and, like a whirlwind, changed everyone’s thoughts and executed the whole thing themselves. I think that they should be businesslike in the approach they take to prioritizing and bringing in efficiencies.