Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

These data scientists design, define, and implement metrics, run and interpret experiments, create dashboards, draw causal inferences, and generate recommendations from modeling and measurement. The elusive full stack data scientists do exist, though they are hard to find. Modeling Scientist Who consumes the output? What is the output?

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 30, 2016

You won’t succeed without having a firm grasp on numbers, markets, analytics, economies of scale and much, much more. In addition, Economics degrees are highly theoretical – which often doesn’t equate to the very specific, actionable and data-driven consulting culture. The knock on engineering?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Along the way, I’ve talked to hundreds of founders, sales and marketing leaders, customer success VPs, and front-line reps about how to build a customer-first SaaS organization. Your #1 focus at this stage is product-market fit. Don’t obsess over metrics like inquiry volume or time to close tickets. What to do.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Cultural Alignment – The “How”. Strategies must go through culture and people to get implemented. Workplace cultures must be purposefully aligned with the business strategy to set the stage for high performance. Or a sales-driven culture (i.e. Wells Fargo ) sabotaging a strategy to increase customer loyalty.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Great leaders achieve great results and create great company cultures. While working with a large Forbes Top 25 Private Company, we quantified the value of leadership using internal key business metrics and various cognitive and behavioral leader assessments. times greater financial returns than market averages. Jossey-Bass.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The remainder work for Orange (née French Telecom), which launched VBN in 2014 to teach its programmers and engineers how to work with and learn from people outside of the company. ” The role of community managers in fostering this culture can’t be overstated. Notable visitors include Mark Zuckerberg.) Who uses them?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. Similarly, when Starbucks baristas make your latte the same way across cafés, or when a software engineer delivers the expected features each sprint, you are witnessing tactical performance. Building Balanced Cultures.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Facebook runs security engagement programs year-round, but the most important tool in our arsenal is Hacktober, an annual, monthlong tradition each October designed to build and maintain a security-conscious culture. One of the best examples of this is our Capture the Flag (CTF) competitions. Insight Center. Is it phishing? Weak passwords?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Beyond shipping new features on a regular cadence and keeping the peace between engineering and the design team, the best PMs create products with strong user adoption that have exponential revenue growth and perhaps even disrupt an industry. Performing market assessments. Defining and tracking success metrics.

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Productivity Management Engineering Case Interview 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

” In today’s tightening labor market, HR leaders must work relentlessly to develop and recruit people who advance digital transformation across their organizations. HR leaders can start by upskilling their teams in areas that impact two critical business outcomes: building bench strength and tying HR metrics to financial success.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In 2011 Avaya had a major likability problem, and the according market performance you would expect. For Avaya, its lackluster NPS score reflected a simple truth: Innovation was the key to survival because it is the growth engine. It takes a major cultural shift in the company.

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1 to 1

MARCH 21, 2023

Youtuber and former NASA engineer Mark Rober illustrated the power of connectivity with a science demonstration, releasing thousands of balloons at once to earn a spot in the Guinness World Book of Records. airline in 2022 by the Wall Street Journal , which scores airlines on seven operations and customer metrics. “We

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Harvard Business

JULY 1, 2016

At one end is a customer pain point or a potential new market. At the other is a product or service that solves the problem or addresses the market in a way nobody has thought of before. By tracking a metric, they can sell optimized wait times (elevators as a service) rather than banks of elevators based on price.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 3, 2019

There are two key ways to do this: Company culture is a great way to assess the quality and ease of being mentored. If culture precludes more junior product managers from reaching out to more senior product managers, that will manifest in the phone calls and is a big red flag. Scale of Investment. How long has it been active?

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

The ultimate goal is to signal to the market that the digital acquisition is part of a series of moves that will help you adapt and win in the digitalization of your industry. The acquisition communicated to the market that Thales was shifting its financial profile to the high-growth business. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 29, 2016

But what about the ordinary engineers, managers, and employees who designed cars to cheat automotive pollution controls or set up bank accounts without customers’ permission? More often the dilemmas were the result of competing interests, misaligned incentives, clashing cultures. Cross-cultural differences.

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

EDENS, of which the latter is CEO, has led the revitalization of the 45-acre Union Market district in Northeast Washington, DC. The Union Market challenge. Located on the east side of the NoMa train tracks, Union Market began as a working food production and distribution center in the 1930s.

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Development Real Estate Retail Guidelines 47

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In the worst case, busyness can become an implicit goal or cultural norm, and the original strategic intent can be lost in a frenzy of detail and activity. ” Metric obsession. Few would deny the importance of corporate culture, for example, even though it is not easily quantifiable. Insight center. A little later, the U.S.

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2018

We can’t always match market salaries, but we need exceptional (read: expensive) talent in order to build from scratch. A caveat here: Make sure incentives align with metrics over which the employee has control. Compensation goes hand-in-hand with corporate culture. HBR Staff/Phatharapol Nopharat/EyeEm/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2017

Recommendation engines (or recommenders ) force organizations to fundamentally rethink how to get greater value from their data while creating greater value for their customers. In my experience, legacy managements too frequently misunderstand recommenders’ role in driving innovation and cultural change. ” So they did.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 18, 2018

For the last six years, we have worked with a group of top marketing executives and business leaders in Silicon Valley and the Bay Area from companies large and small. Porter and Kramer emphasized the external market opportunity of creating social impact. Each year we assess the issues that are most top-of-mind.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

They work towards clear goals and they are focused on and accountable for achieving certain performance metrics. They’re already confident it will improve the client experience and business metrics, but they need to know by how much. ” a marketer might ask. But they are also easily distracted, in a good way.

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CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Culture : Is the work environment healthy or toxic? It has an academic culture focused on continuous improvement.Intellectual rigor and factual analysis skills are vital components of success, as is a can-do attitude with an optimistic focus. Hours are long, and the culture can be demanding. Employee Satisfaction. Diversity.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2018

If you were entering the job market in the early 90s, most job descriptions included “Macintosh experience” or “excellent PC skills” in their preferred qualifications. Perhaps news recently came out about a competitor that was able to take advantage of a new tool to optimize their marketing funnel.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2018

The experience of the typical intrapreneur looks less like Spencer Silver, who developed the Post-It note while at 3M, and more like Steven Sasson, the engineer at Kodak who invented the portable digital camera. As is now well-known, instead of propelling Kodak into the future, the digital camera became a massive missed opportunity.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

More recently, however, companies have widened their aperture, recognizing that success with AI and analytics requires not just data scientists but entire cross-functional, agile teams that include data engineers, data architects, data-visualization experts, and—perhaps most important—translators. Why are translators so important?

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Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2017

Founders bet years of their lives on finding product market fit, investors bet billions on the future value of ambitious startups, and executives bet that their strategies will increase a company’s prospects. Our engineer was at 75% confidence we’d hit our goal, and our lead from partnerships was at 70%.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2018

Machine learning is increasingly being used to predict individuals’ attitudes, behaviors, and preferences across an array of applications — from personalized marketing to precision medicine. Combine traditional machine learning metrics with fairness measures.

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Data Training Training Metrics 35

Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2016

against the average scores for those metrics from all the executives in our worldwide database. Japan’s educational institutions and cultural work ethic give its managers a jump-start in their careers, but most companies don’t continue the development process as far as it could go. What we found was an incredible paradox.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Though not as aggressive, creative or flamboyant as MBB or perhaps even its Big 4 competitors, KPMG is a huge force in the consulting market and not one to be taken lightly. Butler, the new CEO of the US arm, indicated he would strengthen its consultancy services, a market he saw as filled with potential, and offer new services.

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Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

MARCH 19, 2018

In a breakdown of loneliness and social support rates by profession, legal practice was the loneliest kind of work, followed by engineering and science. At the other end of the spectrum were occupations involving high degrees of social interaction: social work, marketing, and sales.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Because of the way industrial products are designed and engineered, you know that when your production line is spitting out Model T cars, you can be reasonably certain they will work as designed. And yet our management culture and tools are set up to work in terms of outputs. This was a hugely important marketing and sales goal.

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