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Here’s Why Strategy Chiefs Succeed or Fail

Harvard Business

Why is that some companies have great heads of strategy who make an outstanding contribution to their companies while others don’t? To answer this question, we evaluated a sample of 55 different heads of strategy and looked more closely at 11 who were particularly successful and 10 who were at the other end of the spectrum.

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Brews, News and Booz & Company: Interview and Culture Insights

Management Consulted

He began by helping firms recruit competent executives, acquire new customers, and establish conducive office space. After 2 years, he recruited 2 friends from Chicago and formed the Business Research and Development Company with $500 borrowed from the bank. The practice areas of Booz & Company include: Strategy and Leadership.

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5 Keys to Firing an Employee Humanely NOT Horrifically

Rick Conlow

See my video, 11 Recruiting Tips for Hiring the Best People. If you use these strategies you won’t have to fire many people. These could be issues with children, chemical abuse, marital problems, financial hardships or a person may be getting burnt out. Keep in mind, most employee terminations can be prevented.

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Simon-Kucher & Partners Interviews & Culture

Management Consulted

Though the firm’s background is exclusively in pricing, in more recent years it has been breaking into other practice areas such as strategy, marketing, and sales. In 1996, Simon-Kucher opened an office in Boston and began to put more of a focus on its other three practice areas: strategy, marketing, and sales. Practice Areas.

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BearingPoint Interview Preparation – Mystery or History?

Management Consulted

BearingPoint partners with the major technological suppliers, like Hewlett Packard, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP, to develop solutions and strategies suiting their clients’ requirements. Strategy & Business Executive. Strategy & Business Executive. Chemicals & Life Sciences. Practice Areas. Industries.

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A.T. Kearney Interview & Culture

Management Consulted

1997 – First Global Prize, an annual business school case study competition for potential recruits, awarded. Kearney’s innovation practice: collaborative innovation, innovation portfolio management, innovation strategy and R&D performance strategy. Firm hires 2,000th employee. Innovation. Marketing & Sales.

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Innovation Should Be a Top Priority for Boards. So Why Isn’t It?

Harvard Business

Director Recruitment and Skills. Recruiting directors with technological expertise is one avenue through which boards can boost their innovative capabilities. Instead, boards typically looked for expertise in their firms’ industry (51%), strategy (34%), and financials (30%). Again, we found differences among industries.