1 to 1

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Outsourcing and managed services are appealing options for many companies at a time when workforces are stretched thin. Although managed services and outsourcing both involve hiring a partner organization, they encompass different levels of work. What are managed services? But don’t be fooled—these terms aren’t interchangeable.

Management 26

Management Operations Comparison Case Study 26

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 15, 2016

We have interviewed Quirky executives and studied each of the company’s product offerings, publicly available product reviews, and their development process. The ideas that floated to the top then entered a second step: an evaluation at which a combination of Quirky’s management and community made the final selection decision.

Case Study 28

Case Study Case Studies Study Productivity 28

Rick Conlow

JANUARY 2, 2023

They operate in a bubble and do not attend the party. All lights were off except a spotlight on the presenting manager and the CEO’s reading light. Because of this, CEOs are leaving a tremendous amount of employee potential talent and contributions on the table. Consider GM as a case study.

Emotional Intelligence 88

Emotional Intelligence Study Leadership Finance 88

Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Great leaders dream of a better future – from business sustainability to growing future leaders, increasing speed to market, or operating with greater purpose. When leaders solicit ideas from others outside the traditionally involved management team, it improves the creativity of the ideas and reinforces that leaders value employees.

Strategy 78

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Company 78

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

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 talent market was so tight that strong employees were often poached from small companies by bigger-name, more successful ones. “Boomerang talent.

Case Study 28

Case Study Case Studies Study Real Estate 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2016

She also used them to scout for talent, keeping an eye out for young managers ready to move into more-senior positions and perhaps transfer to headquarters. Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers.

Case Study 28

Case Study Case Studies Study Banking 28

Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Birthed in 2004 as a spin-off of Indian tech outsourcing behemoth Infosys Technologies, Infosys Consulting is quickly climbing the charts as an industry leader in IT Operations and Strategy consulting. One of the problems Infosys consulted did face, however, was finding the right talent. IT Operations. INFOSYS CONSULTING.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Consulting Deloitte 100

Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 26, 2019

Many consulting, corporate strategy, and corporate development roles require the interviewee to go through an M&A case study. Depending on the firm and specific role this case could be very strategic and operational like doing a market entry/growth-type case or very technical (i.e. Image: Pixabay.

Balance Sheet 60

Balance Sheet Case Interview Case Study Case Studies 60

Brimstone Consulting

APRIL 4, 2023

Recently, Bob had hit a ‘slump,’ a period of several months where he had missed some significant deadlines and had shared with his manager that he was feeling a ‘bit lost’ in his most recent role. Operating out of fear of being fired or on sheer adrenaline is unsustainable.

Ethics 52

Ethics Telecommunications Operations Leadership 52

Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Only operating in the short term or taking too much risk and gambling on one specific future are frequent traps leaders fall into when facing economic uncertainty. Change management should be presented in a way that leads to different ways of thinking and acting. Journal of Property Management, 73(5), 13. Chermack, T.

Company 52

Company Leadership Case Study Case Studies 52

Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

To increase diversity at senior executive levels, more must be known about one group in particular: women of color in midlevel leadership, who successfully developed and progressed beyond individual contributor and first-line management. How did (or didn’t) managers play a role? They pursue management challenges.

Management 34

Management Leadership Culture Development 34

BCG

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

In early May 2009, when the Obama administration was battling to halt a financial meltdown in the US and trying to disburse $787 billion in economic stimulus funds, that department was still operating with a skeleton staff led by Bush appointees; Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner was the only new appointee to have taken office.

Case Study 40

Case Study Case Studies Enterprise Policies 40

Management Consulted

MARCH 9, 2014

The Advisory Board Company is perhaps best known for its membership platform which provides information, research and tools specifically targeted to companies pursuing operational and strategic organization improvement in the U.S. The Advisory Board Company also offers technology, management, and consulting services. Kirshbaum).

Interviews 147

Interviews Culture Company Healthcare 147

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Additional organizational value comes in the form of retained talent. Top talent can demand what they want, including meaning, and will jump ship if they don’t get it. Employers must respond or lose talent and productivity. increase in annual operating profits. increase in annual operating profits.

Study 51

Study Talent Conference Culture 51

Tom Spencer

AUGUST 2, 2015

I recently had the good fortune to communicate with Anne Burley, Director or Regional Talent Acquisition for Asia Pacific at A.T. Kearney is a leading global management consulting firm with offices in more than 40 countries. Kearney Consulting from other management consulting firms? Kearney has 61 offices in 40 countries.

Case Interview 60

Case Interview Recruiting Recruitment Interviews 60

Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

We recently completed a study for the CEO of a very well known, global sports-apparel brand company. He wanted to challenge his team, as part of the strategic talent review process, to think about whether or not the company’s organizational architecture was suited to its growth plan to double in size. Learning from Big Companies.

Apparel 82

Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Data and analytics professionals seem to be at the center of the next big race for talent. By 2020, IBM expects broader demand for data and analytics talent to reach 2.7 What they do need are analyses that solve key commercial and operational problems. To manage risk, they kept their initial investments modest.

Analysis 28

Analysis Data How To Tools 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

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. For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% of revenues).

Methodologies 28

Methodologies How To Case Study Case Studies 28

Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2016

However, looking at the surveys and consulting reports, it is unclear what the precise use cases are that will drive this positive ROI from big data. Our goal in this article is to offer specific, real-world case studies to show how big data has provided value for companies that have worked with Microsoft’s analytics teams.

Data 37

Data Advertising Operations Case Study 37

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

A stark reality recently crept up on Zipcar: It had designed its entire customer experience as a desktop-and-laptop experience, so it didn’t have a way to sign up, service, and help members manage their memberships from their phones. Doing so helps spread the value of innovation into areas responsible for the broader operating model.

Culture 28

Culture Talent Industry Financial 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 15, 2017

Mayer should become a case study for highlighting this point. It is always hard to know whether such self-promotional statements are a reflection of self-delusions or an attempt to manage impressions (and fool others). Leading a turnaround requires much more than making a splash. But the effects were short-lived.

Turnaround 28

Turnaround Leadership Case Study Case Studies 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2017

“Managers have to learn to de-bias their practices and procedures.” When it comes to biases and hiring, managers need to “think broadly about ways to simplify and standardize the process,” says Bohnet. To begin, you’ll need to understand what hiring prejudices are and how they operate.

Case Interview 28

Case Interview Interviews Resumes Software 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 23, 2018

For too many managers, the technology’s costs often rival its benefits. Any HR manager using such a system needs to be aware of its limitations and have a plan for dealing with them… Algorithms are, in part, our opinions embedded in code. Smarter algorithms require smarter risk management.

Enterprise 28

Enterprise Software Data Training 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 24, 2018

News of this kind is “hard to hear, and it’s hard to deliver,” says Joseph Weintraub, a professor at Babson College and the coauthor of The Coaching Manager: Developing Top Talent in Business. Because the topic is so unpleasant, it’s a “conversation that many managers have a tendency to want to avoid.”

How To 28

How To Case Study Case Studies Case Interview 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

“If you identify talented, motivated people who have been there a long time, that is a very good signal.” Particularly at startups or small, private, family-owned companies, employees who don’t get along with their managers are “as good as dead,” Fernández-Aráoz says. “Is it market factors?

Culture 28

Culture How To Case Interview Case Study 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 3, 2018

“There are so many factors to consider, says Jennifer Petriglieri, an assistant professor at INSEAD and the author of “ Talent Management and the Two Career Couple.” ” But if you’re asked to “head up operations in Denver or Cleveland,” the calculation is a little trickier.

How To 28

How To Case Study Case Studies Travel 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Investment in AI is growing and is increasingly coming from organizations outside the tech space.

Survey 32

Survey Tools Industry Automotive 32

Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2018

Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce leader, manages the world’s largest money market fund, and now plays an important role in financial and payment services. In many cases, as with Skype, the size of the European operation shrank after the acquisition. digital giants in these countries. counterpart, Match.com.

Company 28

Company Government Retail Policies 28

Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

To illustrate how this all plays out on a larger scale in real companies, here are two mini case studies from businesses we’ve worked with. The New York headquarters housed over a third of its workforce, including developers, the sales team, operations, and leadership. courtesy of HLW International.

Exercises 30

Exercises Meeting Real Estate Survey 30

Harvard Business

JULY 29, 2016

Begin by saying something like, “We are seriously considering Mary to be a project manager here. For instance, “Nancy doesn’t have a lot of experience managing people”—how do you think she’ll do as a supervisor? Case Study #1: Solicit feedback from team members to focus your questions.

Case Interview 28

Case Interview Interviews Case Study Case Studies 28