Consulting Matters
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
One thing that consultants do that most clients hate is cookie cutter solutions that feel to clients as nothing more than "management by magazine." They are interested in case studies only to a point. “The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.”
Harvard Business
JUNE 26, 2017
Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. The following week, Erica and Alan were meeting with Danny at MMC’s Toronto offices to go over the new registration scheme, which Alan had been working on for the past year.
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Harvard Business
JUNE 8, 2016
Here is a case study that demonstrates this point. When Marianne Hatzopoulou, a civil engineering professor at the University of Toronto, needed to get the word out about her study on cyclists, she resorted to Twitter. A reporter with the local paper Metro Toronto saw the blog post and reached out to her for more info.
Consulting Success
JANUARY 29, 2018
Many consulting firms spend time writing about their methodologies or writing about their own case studies to self-promote. We also publish a quarterly magazine. We started the magazine. Or “Can you come and speak at my sales meeting?” It’s a very crowded market out there. What kind of steps are you taking?
Management Consulted
JANUARY 18, 2015
1997 – First Global Prize, an annual business school case study competition for potential recruits, awarded. You have to be prepared for Sunday – Friday travel, which is the flip-side of client exposure – you get to meet and collaborate with the client, but you are NEVER at home. Firm hires 2,000th employee.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 17, 2016
After all, roles like captaining a college field hockey team or editing a school literary magazine provide valuable leadership experience. Notice whether she is “a person who comes to staff meetings and has ideas not only about her tasks but also about other things going on in the organization.”
Harvard Business
AUGUST 22, 2016
The voluminous case studies and articles about the firm would fill entire file cabinets in the typical business school storage area. Nokia’s CEO was featured on the cover of Forbes magazine in 2007, with the headline “Nokia: A billion customer and counting. Decisions were made more quickly.
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