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High Performance Cultures: What every organization can learn from Ferrari, Bentley, and Lamborghini

Claris Consulting

The engine, only a few inches from my head, pounded in my chest as if I was receiving CPR, and the trees flew by so fast that they were no longer trees, but more a blurry green swatch of color out of the corner of my right eye. High performance cars are similar to high performance cultures. High performance cultures are hand built.

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Consultant Profiles Series: Billy Gerhard

Tom Spencer

in Civil and Environmental Engineering in the Gunsch Lab from Duke University. in Environmental Engineering from UNC-Chapel Hill. Now that you have been through the hiring process, how would you describe BCG’s culture? Travel is typically Monday through Thursday, and you tend to work pretty hard during those days on the road.

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Job Hub: Uber Jobs and Culture

Management Consulted

———– History & Culture. The company prides itself on its innovative, forward-thinking culture, and believes that its work is a reflection of that culture. Don’t expect Uber to pick up your travel tab; we’ve heard from many interviewees that they had to pay their own way to the interview.

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

Management Consulted

Booz & Company Interview and Culture. Where prestige, pay, exit opportunities and culture are concerned, Booz & Company ranks number 4 behind MBB. Booz, Business Engineering Service; Edwin G. Most recently, Booz & Company acquired Management Engineers , based in Dusseldorf, Germany. BOOZ & COMPANY CULTURE.

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What Managers Can Do to Keep Women in Engineering

Harvard Business

Engineering faces a serious gender-based retention problem. Despite all the efforts encouraging women to study engineering, over 40% of highly skilled women who enter the field end up leaving. In 2014 we interviewed 34 women engineers in two FTSE 100 firms in the UK. vgajic/Getty Images.

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Gallup Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

GALLUP CONSULTING INTERVIEWS AND CULTURE. Unlike other firms, there is not that much traveling necessary – because Gallup conducts so much primary analysis, they are relying less on internal data for client firms. Software Engineer. GALLUP CONSULTING CULTURE. IVR Administrator. Systems Administrator. Data Manager.

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Consultant Profile Series: Dane Sequeira

Tom Spencer

in Mechanical Engineering, studying under Dr. Brian Mann. Overall, it was a better cultural fit for me. Now that you have been through the process, what is BCG’s specific culture? Structurally, they all still involve travel Monday through Thursday, office on Friday, however the work style and type of tasks will change each time.