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What Will It Take to Make Finance More Gender-Balanced?

Harvard Business

It is no wonder we came to fear our gender would keep us from achieving the same level of success as our male peers in finance. We turned to those most able to effect change in finance: the professionals actively working in the field. Family-friendly policies alone may not be enough to drive change in gender equality in finance.

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What Is a Customer Focused Culture?

LSA Global

A True Customer Focused Culture There’s a lot of talk lately about focusing on the customer. And it is easy to see how a customer focused culture could benefit an organization compared to organizations who don’t pay as much attention to what matters most to their customers. The post What Is a Customer Focused Culture?

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Analysis Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Stacked full of big-brained folks, most of Analysis Group’s 600+ staff hold advanced degrees in law, economics, finance, accounting or business. Surveys & Experimental Studies. ANALYSIS GROUP CULTURE. Analysis Group’s firm culture is one of its strongest selling points. – always a good hallmark of any culture.

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Towers Watson Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Corporate Risk Management and Risk Financing. Employee Surveys. TOWERS WATSON CONSULTING CULTURE. Workplace culture tends to be fairly similar across different offices. The post Towers Watson Consulting Interviews and Culture appeared first on Management Consulted. Executive Compensation. Global Data Services.

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Surveying the Business Landscape

Tom Spencer

Surveying the Business Landscape. Financing may be sourced from internal cash reserves, bank loans, shareholder loans, bond issues or sale of shares. Understanding a firm’s inner workings is important since competitive strategies can fail if they conflict with a firm’s culture, systems and general way of doing business.

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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

Yet, their work cultures produce 85% disengaged employees. A finance executive said this of the decades-old corporate attitude, “We are GM. A global IBM study found that 33% of CEOs had engineering degrees and another 15% had finance degrees. For example, CEOs pay is 399 times more than the average worker.

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Survey Data Shows That Many Companies Are Still Not Truly Agile - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM CA TECHNOLOGIES

Harvard Business

A recent global survey of almost 1,300 IT and business leaders found companies are keenly aware of the importance of agile. However, the report found one group, the Agility Masters, who have been able to leverage agile throughout their company, reporting 60 percent higher revenue and profit growth than the rest of the organizations surveyed.

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