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Job Hub: Airbnb Jobs and Culture

Management Consulted

———— History & Culture. The original site offered short-term living quarters, breakfast and a unique business networking opportunity for attendees who were unable to book a hotel in the saturated market. Interview Tips & Tricks. and abroad. What do you say?”

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An Ex-Consultant’s Jump into the Start Up World

Management Consulted

He co-founded MobileSuites, an app that puts travel concierge services and hotel information at your fingertips, and which you can (and should) find and sign-up for here. As we were talking, we started thinking that we could really improve the hotel experience, That sort of hit us on the head and we just couldn’t stop thinking about it.

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Leading Across Cultures Requires Flexibility and Curiosity

Harvard Business

How many nights have you spent in a hotel in a city many miles from home? Even without speaking the local language, you can learn a huge amount about a country’s culture from tuning into local television shows, especially comedy programs. And being able to tune into a culture and work with different world views stood out.

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Picking Among Consulting Offers

Tom Spencer

Workplace Culture. You can think about workplace culture in terms of propensity for team-based activity. Of course, every consulting firm requires collaborative excellence, but how they operationalize it in terms of workplace culture can differ greatly.

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Charting your consulting career direction

Tom Spencer

This article identifies what lies ahead for graduates considering a future in consulting, and highlights key insights that I gained by interviewing junior and senior consultants. Lastly, before you join a consulting firm, be sure to find out about its workplace culture. Brace yourself. Exit opportunities.

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How Black Women Describe Navigating Race and Gender in the Workplace

Harvard Business

Over the course of a year I worked with Professor Elizabeth Morrison, Vice Dean of Faculty at NYU, to interview 10 women of color in order to understand the challenges they face in the workplace, how they cope with those challenges, and how those coping mechanisms affect their chances of long-term success. And then having to go to work.

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How to Balance Work and Life in Management Consulting

CaseInterview.com

The first factor is the culture related to your geography (both country and city). At other firms, they often go to the client for meetings, to conduct interviews, gather data, etc. Sure, it was a very nice hotel, and it's really, really cool for the first four weeks. You end up going to where the client is located.