Tom Spencer

JULY 16, 2015

What is the best way to reach customers (mail order, online store, factory outlet, retail store, supermarket, department stores, or network marketing)? Competition can come from firms within an industry, or from firms in other industries who produce substitutes. What is the concentration of competitors in the industry?

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Case Interview Industry Productivity Interviews 60

Management Consulted

AUGUST 1, 2013

At its start, Oliver Wyman capitalized on the deregulation of the financial services industry. Mercer (with Oliver Wyman) developed the number of industries served and capabilities expertise, and after a period of exponential growth eventually chose to make Oliver Wyman the catch-all name for anything MMC but non-human resources focused.

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Oliver Wyman Interviews Mercer NERA Economic Consulting 201

Management Consulted

JANUARY 18, 2015

Kearney becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of EDS in September, nearly doubling in size and vastly expanding its industry expertise and information technology capabilities. Each company faces substantial challenges in the every evolving face of marketing due to consumer trends and industry dynamics. Industries. 1995 – A.T.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 20, 2016

With a rigorous core program, strong alumni network, and team-building atmosphere, Tuck landed at #2 on our list of the top MBA programs for management consulting. This is one of the reasons the HBS alumni network is world-renowned for keeping classmates connected and loyal to the alma mater decades after graduating.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Especially if your first job is management consulting as you will be presented with many opportunities to jump into industry. Depending on the industry you’re entering, you may find that some opportunities offer both better skill-building opportunities and higher compensation – a win-win. It’s also a great way to broaden your network.

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Strategy Strategy Strategy& Management 78

Tom Spencer

APRIL 15, 2015

How should the company position itself within its industry? Failure to properly assess and understand the business landscape can have billion dollar implications and affect the course of an entire industry. These three strategic decisions helped to shift market power in the PC industry away from IBM and towards Microsoft and Intel.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

In a forthcoming paper in the Academy of Management Review , we present a theory of power that moves beyond a static comparison of high and low power actors to consider the full spectrum of organizational power dynamics. Conduct a network audit to determine how employees across role boundaries connect to each other in person, via email, etc.,

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Management Boston Consulting Group Research Survey 52

Management Consulted

MAY 10, 2015

In 1954, Hay continued its trailblazing ways, started the “Hay Compensation Survey Comparisons”, a tool that allowed companies to remain competitive in terms of the compensation they offered their staff, and continued to see sustained levels of growth. Industries . Management Consulting and the Consulting Industry 101.

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Groups Interviews Culture Case Interview 100

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

These days, it pays to practice being in “interview mode” so you’re ready for the real thing – whether it’s networking with a neighbor at Starbucks or sitting in the hot seat. I begged my favorite Econ teacher to let me into his Industrial Organization course and fortunately I got a spot.

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Consulting Case Interview Interviews Engineering 204

Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

And so in PPE, were you interested in business in general, before everything happened with Lehman Brothers did you think you are probably going to stick with the investment banking industry? Can you talk a bit about the support network at the Consulting Society and how they prepared you for consulting interviews?

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Deloitte Case Interview Interviews Case Study 100

Harvard Business

JULY 31, 2017

Based on our recent worldwide survey of 2,000 incumbent companies across all major industries and countries, we estimate that the average return on incumbent digital initiatives is below 10% — barely above the cost of capital. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide. Sponsored by DXC Technology. We clustered companies in two ways.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2016

For example, Expedia’s publicly described APIs (Expedia Affiliate Network) enable data integration across numerous partners that include almost all competing airline companies, thousands of hotels, resorts, rental car companies, and payment service providers. Provides a low-cost, real-time network to test ideas.

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Construction Airlines Data Travel 33

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 5, 2016

For decades, experts and policy wonks have argued that health care is a uniquely inefficient industry, insulated from conventional market forces that operate in the rest of the economy. Productivity dispersion in an industry measures the variation in productivity among the players within a market.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Instead, they describe a host of difficulties that women encounter once promoted to management , such as having their legitimacy contested, their contributions undervalued, and being excluded from powerful networks. Are these true but isolated instances? The purpose of my recent study was to find the answer.

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Research Management Analysis Study 28

Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

As Emma points out, your network looks completely different as a consultant than it does when you are someone else’s employee. There is great value that comes with building up a network of consultants and independents to help support each other and bounce ideas off of each other.

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Retail Fashion Consulting Marketing 139

Harvard Business

JANUARY 31, 2017

Since their founding less than a decade ago, Uber and Airbnb have wrangled with regulators, challenged the taxi and hotel industries, earned extraordinary valuations from venture capital investors — and fundamentally transformed the way people think about urban transportation and travel. That’s true right now.

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Hotels Travel Film Company 28

Management Consulted

JANUARY 4, 2015

This year appears to be a promising year for the consulting industry in general as demand for consulting services around the world steadily increases. In comparison to 2014, salaries appear to be on the rise – although probably not as fast as you prospective consultants would hope. Conclusion. Have a great 2015 and best of luck!

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Oliver Wyman Consulting Boston Consulting Group Deloitte 100

Harvard Business

JULY 15, 2016

Sure, people print nostalgic books and holiday cards, but that volume pales in comparison to Kodak’s heyday. Companies often see the disruptive forces affecting their industry. Cameras went digital and then disappeared into cellphones. People went from printing pictures to sharing them online.

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Film Balance Sheet Chemicals Engineering 28

Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2018

Below is a sample of the research about what happens when algorithms are given control of tasks traditionally carried out by humans (all emphasis mine): In 2002 a team of economists studied the impact of automated underwriting algorithms in the mortgage lending industry.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. CAMTech is an open innovation platform now involving a network of over 4,300 engineers, clinicians, entrepreneurs, and designers from over 700 organizations.

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Healthcare Metrics Engineering Financial 36

Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2017

While Edward Lloyd is largely credited with commercializing the insurance industry, with the creation of his namesake firm, Lloyd’s, over 330 years ago, the original concept of spreading risk (or “mutualizing”) goes back even further. Rather, they can become early adopters of the technology.

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Consultant Ninja

JULY 27, 2009

However, I'm puzzled by the logic that government will be able to design an industry organizational structure that is more efficient than the private sector. Not sure about the Pepsi/Coke comparison. Consultant Ninja. Doctor Baloney- Good point - I modified my post to include the structural lever. July 28, 2009 at 11:09 PM.

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MishTalk

JULY 28, 2013

Some sectors have lost even more capacity, with the automobile industry having declined by 40 percent. They are 15 percent lower than Belgian and French wages and 30 percent lower than wages in Germany, according to a current Bank of Italy comparison. Wages arent the problem.

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Real Estate Financial Advertising Case Interview 77

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 18, 2013

It should be no surprise since they have been the birthplace of many technological advances, were one of the founders of the entire personal computer industrial revolution, and now are leaders in new software platforms, hardware infrastructure and workplace equality. These projects come from a wide variety of industries and nations.

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IBM GBS Interviews Consulting Case Interview 203

Harvard Business

JUNE 17, 2016

The modern payment card industry started with Diners Club, in 1950. Other payment networks, in one way or another, also deployed strategies to make sure they had enough cardholders and merchants on board their platforms quickly. Once it had a thick market there it moved on to other cities, and eventually other verticals.

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

In this episode, we are discussing the importance of maintaining a long-term strategy and vision for your marketing and networking. Listen to the podcast here: Long-term strategies in marketing and networking offer the greatest rewards for the most successful consultants. Other consultancy is well-focused on particular industries.

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ConsultX

MARCH 29, 2022

Originally written when Gray was working in sales development and as a sales instructor for the Prudential Insurance Company in 1940, it is now a timeless article widely shared in the insurance industry. We will now look to draw comparisons between the original text, CSUS’s adaptation and the world of Business Consulting. They don’t!

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Insurance Insurance Consulting Education 52

Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Got a real foray into that industry over there and was able to apply my marketing skills. Were you reaching out to your network, to connections? My main focus in the first few months was developing a network of those who were doing similar things and doing some exciting and great things in the market to find more about their journey.

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freshminds

MAY 24, 2016

Finding collaborators – One way in which traditional industries can adapt is through finding collaborators in the sharing economy sphere. But that’s not always true - according to a study in the Journal of Industrial Ecology , a two-mile drive to a video store uses a few hundred times more energy than shipping DVDs 200 miles away.

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Hotels Transportation Energy Company 53

Emerson Consulting Group

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

PEOs must be competitive in every industry from which they solicit business. The carriers offer their selection of plans and break those plans into PEO “silos” based on demographic and industry profiles … the same thing those carriers do when they sell directly! The ROI Comparison Rationale.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 10, 2018

Microsoft, for example, has a program called MyAnalytics that informs customers of its Office productivity software about how much time they spend on various tasks, and the size and strength of their communications networks.

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Benchmarking Software B2B Comparison 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Female board representation at the S&P 500 has not increased significantly over the past decade and, at 18.7%, pales in comparison to the figures in most of Europe. board selection process still relies heavily on social networks. is now among the few Western developed economies with neither voluntary nor mandatory targets.

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Recruiting Recruitment Interviews Company 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2017

It had no track record to point to when targeting and interacting with top talent during its early years, and indeed no recognized industry to point to. And, hopefully, you’ll learn that great recruitment practices create a multiplier effect: creating a network of good hires generates referrals to more good hires.

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Sales Case Interview Recruiting Recruitment 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2017

It had no track record to point to when targeting and interacting with top talent during its early years, and indeed no recognized industry to point to. And, hopefully, you’ll learn that great recruitment practices create a multiplier effect: creating a network of good hires generates referrals to more good hires.

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Sales Case Interview Recruiting Recruitment 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 5, 2016

In the process of listening, male mentors may find that they develop and appreciate enhanced interpersonal skills, access to larger networks, and insider knowledge of their organization that makes them more effective leaders. Many male mentors we interviewed stated that they often learned more from their female mentee than she did from him!

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

The 2015 order mostly addressed a radical policy shift from competing private networks to public utility treatment for broadband, or “reclassification,” with authority to enforce net neutrality being a mere side effect. By comparison, private investors have spent nearly $1.5 The sad state of most U.S.

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