Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The insight you glean through interviews and focus groups provide you an independent and outside point of view - one of the key reasons why executives hire consultants in the first place. You always want to do interviews with them. You always want to look at there's the leader and then there's the direct reports.

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How To Groups Interviews Methodologies 156

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2017

A doctor’s medical toolbox and supply of best-practice guidelines, ample as they are, do not address a patient’s fears, grief over a diagnosis, practical issues of access to care, or reliability of their social support system. In other words, it might save money in the short term but wastes money over time.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2016

GE vice chairman Beth Comstock spoke to the issues of speed and continual customer input in a 2014 interview, when she said, “We work in these very complex, deep industrial technologies. The first is that lean startup goes against the cultural grain for most companies, and it can threaten the authority of decision-makers.

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Company Airlines Survey Methodologies 28

Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2017

Our data included executives’ scores on personality and emotional intelligence assessments, interviews with their managers and HR, and our case notes. They were more likely to operate based on black-and-white ideals, such as, “There is one best idea that should prevail” or “I am running a pure meritocracy.”

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Emotional Intelligence Case Interview Talent Pharmaceuticals 47

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2018

After all, in some ways, the situations were similar: A group whose members may not have worked together before must form a close-knit team quickly and execute their duties in a way that meets the organization’s guidelines to the letter. The card game must be tailor-made for your own culture and focused on your current challenges.

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Case Interview Guidelines Transportation Airlines 28

Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2018

Ostensibly, young companies are “acqui-hired” more for their best people than for any real interest in their products, services, or ongoing operations. People need to understand the new cultural, organizational, and operational values they are being asked to embrace. The decision?

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