Harvard Business

DECEMBER 15, 2017

The country’s ranking in dealing with construction permits (181) and enforcing contracts (164) is particularly bad. We recommend companies first measure the risk-adjusted opportunity in each state by analyzing leading indicators of the market’s size, growth, industry clusters, and stability.

Strategy 28

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Operations 28

Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2017

The EU’s case asserts, among other things, that Google unfairly exploits its dominance in search engines and smartphone operating systems to restrict competition in shopping services, ad placement services, and smartphone app store markets. Monopolies were easier to define within well-circumscribed industries.

Company 30

Company Engineering Operations Construction 30

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?

Strategy 28

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Company 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Over time, those talented women with their PhD in STEM start to drop out of technical and industrial careers. Constructing a narrative of power and capability can be more difficult for women, especially when the achievements are team-based. And this is a metric that can’t be replaced by even the most excellent performance.

Talent 28

Talent Metrics Leadership Research 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 13, 2016

A change in sales or other customer-acquisition processes, for example, will affect multiple aspects of their business models: the types of orders their firms get, capacity planning, operations, delivery, post-sales requirements, and daily interactions among these groups. The onus is on you, not the buyer, to suggest constructive next steps.

Strategy 28

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Hotels 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

As a result, some of these Harvard employees earned in excess of $30 million in yearly pay, due to performance that was truly exceptional against industry benchmarks. Pay transparency thrives in organizations that abandon pay for performance; it struggles in environments where rewards are linked to subjective metrics.

Comparison 28

Comparison Groups Talent Course 28

Management Consulted

JULY 19, 2015

However, he did receive some puzzling feedback from his interviewers, leading him to contact Jenny Rae to guide him through how to use the input constructively for his final interview on site at BCG. It’s hard with 24 hours left to say – go figure out all these new industries – right? Yeah, this is interesting.

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Interviews Case Interview Bain Finance 100

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. The differences were dramatic.

Management 28

Management Metrics Financial Company 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The complex calculations of the field known as Operations Research were enabled by mainframe computing. The cloud is also a common repository for the collection and analysis of new data, and the place where an increasing number of artificial intelligence operations, like image and speech recognition, are conducted.

Change Management 36

Change Management Management Software Productivity 36

Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

At a glance, the study revealed these themes: There is no common pattern for a ‘best organization design’ regardless of size, strategy, or industry. PepsiCo is a $65B food and beverage giant, with a dozen global brands, operating in 190 countries. Most do not proactively think ahead about organization.

Apparel 82

Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82

CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Prestige : How much influence does the consulting firm carry in the industry? It has consistently been the #1 most valued brand in the consulting industry and is associated with cutting-edge strategic approaches. It was known for a concierge business model: one client per industry, letting it maximize value per client.

Oliver Wyman 81

Oliver Wyman Boston Consulting Group Consulting Bain 81

Harvard Business

MARCH 27, 2017

In its fast-changing industry, big challenges loomed on many fronts. Advanced materials and new construction methods were bringing far greater complexity to manufacturing processes. Computer-driven, automated manufacturing that could make reshoring of factories feasible threatened to redraw the supply-chain map.

Exercises 28

Exercises Productivity Efficiency Methodologies 28

Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

All businesses, regardless of industry, have become what I call O2O businesses—their primary marketing objectives are focused on driving people online to drive them offline. Commenting on popular blog articles in your industry. Are there any online events in your industry that could work? Jon Jantsch, Duct Tape Marketing. ?

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Consulting Advertising Case Interview Conference 68

Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2017

The grand vision at the heart of his last project is now being unveiled as Apple finalizes construction on Apple Park. New young tech companies — Airbnb, Twitter, Instagram, Snap, and WeWork, among others — operate differently than Silicon Valley giants. Their business models are fluid.

Real Estate 28

Real Estate System Software Efficiency 28