Management Consulted

MAY 7, 2017

The San Francisco office is focused mainly (but not exclusively) on technology & telecommunications, private equity, healthcare, retail & consumer goods, and utilities & energy. The Silicon Valley office is especially fast paced with a highly entrepreneurial culture. BCG reminds us a little bit of famed U.S. Eisenhower.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 7, 2023

An Examination of the Importance of Leadership Behaviors and Attributes on Shaping Culture Executive Summary Organizational culture is a critical factor in financially successful companies. But culture change is often overwhelming and elusive. Section three focuses on proven approaches to architect organizational culture.

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Culture Financial Leadership Deloitte 52

Harvard Business

AUGUST 17, 2017

Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. And Marc Benioff of Salesforce said, “Diversity is an important part of our culture of equality. For example, Gap Inc.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Nimble digital competitors are showing growth that the largest consumer goods and retail companies are not, for multiple reasons. While disruptive technologies negated many of the advantages historically enjoyed by only large companies with scale, these same technologies have changed the way consumer goods and retail companies create value.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 6, 2018

In fact, success requires a solid base of nearby talent — or the ability to entice skilled workers to relocate for new job opportunities. In a time when unemployment is near historic lows amid one of the longest economic expansions in history, finding the right talent is harder than ever. Local Talent Matters.

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Recruiting Recruitment Talent Real Estate 35

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

From accountants to retail analysts to supply chain experts, functional specialists will need to know how to prepare and contextualize data. Start with yourself and your leadership team. While you’re reskilling your current workforce , you’ll inevitably be hiring new talent. Hire for Gaps, Not Buzzwords.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 1, 2013

When seeking new talent, Oliver Wyman’s consulting team says they are looking for employees who are driven, risky, and innovative. The firm offers consulting services including strategy, operations, risk management, organizational transformation, and leadership development. Retail and Consumer Products. Public Policy.

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Oliver Wyman Interviews Mercer NERA Economic Consulting 201

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Having assessed over 2,000 CEOs and over 18,000 C-suite leaders since 1995, we are struck by how often careers of talented executives stall or even derail because of seemingly trivial issues, many of which are utterly fixable. We often see talented executives hitting home runs in their own division and striking out with their peer group.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 20, 2014

BearingPoint Interview and Culture. Read on to discover interesting nuances of culture and competence that are unique to the global consulting firm. Peter Mockler and his management team, who had been the EMEA leadership for BearingPoint in 2006, continued to lead BearingPoint. BEARINGPOINT CULTURE. Capital Markets.

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BearingPoint Interviews Oliver Wyman Capgemini 139

Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2018

A brick-and-mortar retailer buys an e-commerce platform. While Cruise is a far cry from old-line auto manufacturing, GM saw in it an opportunity to advance its own capabilities in autonomous vehicles by acquiring talent and technology that would have taken too long to develop organically. Joe Beck/Unsplash/HBR Staff.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Start with leadership. After a four-way merger, senior leaders at a North American company implemented a “Lead With Your Strengths” program to help employees at all levels understand how to use their strengths to navigate the change, and to foster a unified culture with a shared operating strategy and mutual goals.

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Development Sales Talent Study 49

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Going into the study, we expected to see equal representation of women and men in senior leadership positions in Sweden and higher self-efficacy among professionals in Sweden than in the U.S. Many of the managers in retail and commercial banking we interviewed in Sweden stated that their teams were made up of well over 50% women.

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Finance Banking Interviews Survey 39

Harvard Business

JULY 30, 2018

But there are thorny cultural, strategic, political, and budget issues that must be confronted by CEOs and other leaders if they want to ensure that their organizations can be hospitable to — rather than hostile to — new ideas. Cultural issues (45% of respondents.). It can be inserted into people’s job titles.

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Company Survey Apparel Culture 53

Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2017

In the 1990s and 2000s, leadership’s focus on efficiency produced solid results. Leadership must recognize: Most employees want to be productive, but the organization too often gets in their way. Both “the best” companies and “the rest” have roughly the same amount of star talent.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2018

In January, fashion retailer H&M came under fire for an advertisement featuring a young black boy in a green hoodie bearing the words “coolest monkey in the jungle.” The CEOs also told me that retention of diverse talent was particularly challenging.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Through team-building exercises and the careful establishment of norms and processes, leaders aim to create a culture of trust, psychological safety, and good feeling. But should enterprise leadership teams also pursue cohesion? As he told us, “Creating a culture of performance and results is pivotal. Team processes.

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Management Consulted

JULY 2, 2017

BCG’s clients typically include many of the world’s 500 largest companies – BCG Boston is no exception, but in this office the focus is on healthcare, financial services, industrial goods, retail, and high tech. And with Bain’s globally-recognized social culture, Vault ranked Bain as the Best Place to Work in 2015.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 19, 2018

Consider Staples, the office-supplies retailer, which had tumbled from being the market leader to being a third of the new leader’s size by 1992. the danger that the newcomer will clash for political or personality reasons with members of the leadership team). Don’t underestimate the importance of cultural fit.

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Harvard Business

JULY 17, 2017

Its recent launch of Marcus , an online retail bank, is a particularly promising signal. Financial institutions need more technically adept, visionary talent if they are to survive the shift to the digital age and take the kind of risks necessary for long-term success.

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Financial Industry Banking Talent 44

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Good leadership certainly helps, but more often than not, the organization will revert to business as usual. That’s why it’s imperative to ensure your strategy deeply resonates with your organizational culture. I spoke with Patty McCord, the former chief talent officer of Netflix from 1998 to 2013. Unlocking Energy.

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Energy Airlines Culture Retail 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 27, 2017

At some of the world’s most successful enterprises — Google, Netflix, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook — autonomous algorithms, not talented managers, increasingly get the last word. CEOs need to clarify when talented humans must defer to algorithmic judgment. Human leadership defers to demonstrable algorithmic power.

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Enterprise Software Data Engineering 28

Harvard Business

JULY 22, 2016

British retailer ASOS also maintains a popular Instagram account. New talent is one of the first requirements, but companies that want to adapt their business model to digital platforms need the willingness to build and manage an entirely different sort of asset. Building in-house is not for the faint of heart.

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Real Estate Talent System Tools 28

Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

” That clean-sheet perspective emboldened Intel’s leadership to abandon memory and focus on microprocessors. This painful decision cost tens of thousands of jobs but proved strategically, organizationally, and culturally essential to the company’s future success. But the past is merely a prologue.

Enterprise 28

Enterprise Metrics Retail Productivity 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Zimbabwe’s new leadership faces a challenging task. Mnangagwa is also taking steps to shift the culture in government towards assisting, rather than inhibiting business. An influx of capital could also result in a revival in the formal retail sector (e.g., Years of economic mismanagement.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Commercially available tools, such as culture IQ polls, sample groups of employees through a smartphone app on a daily or weekly basis to generate real-time insights. And today some businesses such as retailers are using predictive analytics for hiring frontline staff. Use Data to Select People for Change Roles. Build a Dashboard.

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Change Management Data Company Management 28

Seth Godin Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Al Pittampalli is following up his last bestseller with a new one, Persuadable , that promises to change the way we think about leadership. Allison Myers and her team continue to fight Big Tobacco where they enter our communities, in the retail environment. Phoebe Espiritu is midway through 25x52.com,

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Fashion Ethics Education Nonprofit 20

Harvard Business

JANUARY 24, 2017

And the impact on Manizales’ culture has not gone unnoticed: “Manizales-Más has opened our city to the world,” was how one young university student put it to me. The criticism came quick, but the seed of the new culture had been planted: growth, not start, was the goal. 1 – Quickly demonstrating new growth.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 4, 2016

Multinational leadership teams should instead clarify their long-term objectives in the market – for example, whether they want to focus on maintaining margins or growing market share – and align execution accordingly.

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B2B Government Marketing Chemicals 28

Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2017

When we asked one successful online retailer “How do you compete with Amazon?” Building a successful platform business is hard enough when you have an original idea, ample capital, no core business to cannibalize, and a team of top talent. Everyone on the leadership team has a role to play in making this pivot.

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Seth Godin Blog

MARCH 27, 2013

The complete list of online retailers. Everything that built our culture, improved our productivity, and defined our lives involved the chasing of scarce items. Leadership. LEADERSHIP: Management is almost diametrically opposed to leadership. Leadership, though, is a whole other game. onramp Branding.

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Industry Leadership Resources Marketing 55

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2016

She also used them to scout for talent, keeping an eye out for young managers ready to move into more-senior positions and perhaps transfer to headquarters. Tasked with rethinking the bank’s retail approach, she’d rejected the traditional path of expanding the branches. But this time Sena wasn’t making the trip alone.

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Case Study Case Studies Study Banking 28

Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2018

Talent acquisition is acqui-hiring’s main purpose, say innovation pundits — everything else matters less. While the size and circumstances of Jet.com’s deal are atypical, one clear takeaway stands out: These types of acquisitions aren’t about procuring talent; they’re about producing impact.

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Enterprise Talent How To Agile 28

Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Buck Consultants at Xerox offers advisory, technology, and administration solutions to help companies effectively operate talent management programs while engaging employees each individually in his or her health, wealth, and career. Retail & Consumer Products. BUCK CONSULTANTS CULTURE . Automotive Services. Transportation.

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Consulting Case Interview Interviews Healthcare 100

Harvard Business

JULY 13, 2017

Increasingly, our clients are coming to us as they realize that in order for these disparate initiatives to thrive, they need to undergo an end-to-end transformation, the success of which demands dramatic operational, structural, and cultural shifts. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide. Sponsored by DXC Technology. Digital leader.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Three-quarters of these executives – from primarily large organizations in financial services, manufacturing, technology, healthcare, retail, and many other industries – say their organizations will require substantial or extensive change to become even more digital. How to Design Your IT Organization for Constant Evolution.

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Company Survey Operations Productivity 28

Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

In March 1992, KPMG began to reorganize itself, choosing six lines of business: financial services; government; health care & life sciences; information & communications; manufacturing, retailing, & distribution; and special markets & designated services. Talent & Human Capital. Talent Management.

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Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Management Consulted

APRIL 6, 2014

PWC INTERVIEW AND CULTURE. Retail & Consumer. leadership team. assignee abroad to experience that lifestyle and office culture. PWC CULTURE. There are many opportunities for exposure and training from senior leadership and working on assignments from top companies around the world. Industrial Products.

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PricewaterhouseCoopers IBM GBS Case Interview Interviews 221