Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2016

As we move from one hotel chain to another and order the same Starbucks drink in London that we do in Shanghai or Tokyo, it can feel like just another business trip as opposed to a personally meaningful cross-cultural adventure. First, traveling abroad can build your confidence. Managing Across Cultures. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2017

Rather than assuming we’ll work in one location, in our native culture, we will need new skills, attitudes, and behaviors that help us work across cultures. What’s more, the subsidiaries operated more or less autonomously, each with separate organizational cultures and norms. Embracing positive indifference.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 23, 2020

There are many studies about the high toll that exhaustion is taking on us as individuals and companies and society on the whole. Since men did the traveling, men went to market and so the market institutions, rules, laws and habits were created by men for men. Heavy travel. We have come a long way, baby for sure.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JUNE 26, 2023

Virtual Coaching Benefit #2: Availability Virtual technology platforms enable the coach to be brought into just-in-time and rapid-response situations or situations like cross-cultural coaching goals. Affordability improves through reduced travel and associated time out of the office costs. Frazee, R.V. E-coaching in organizations.

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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2016

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. When I was heading Organization and Management Development at Pepsi International, I would encourage our international executives to study local comedy shows.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

When you first start consulting, it can seem like a sort of corporate utopia: interesting work, a new client every few months, access to leaders of industry, great colleagues, endless career development and training, generous dinner budgets, extensive travel, nice hotels, international travel.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

holders – one studied integral programming algorithms and the other researched the use of higher math in meal planning in the military – it’s safe to say that this is a company founded on intelligence, excellence, and genius insight. Travel & Transportation. Business Operations. ZS ASSOCIATES HISTORY.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 22, 2015

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. I knew I was really interested and passionate about technology, which was part of the reason I studied computer science. Absolutely – and great segue.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. “He abandoned you for more money and travel, without thinking twice about Green Horizon’s mission or your friendship. “Why is he calling you on Holi?

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Management Consulted

MARCH 27, 2015

My best friend and traveling companion, Lawson, was sporting – she’d studied Spanish for 10 years and was confident, conversational and even funny in the language. And I didn’t know how to operate. We traveled to a mountain village in central Honduras and met people who changed our life. Banana trees.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 15, 2016

That said, I always found it rather funny and more than touching that for a man who helped chart the academic progression of American management studies, he never lost a heavy German/Austrian accent. “ He sought to understand and explain company culture in a way that is akin to an expat trying to understand the culture of a new country.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Recognizing client’s needs for help managing IT operations and resources, IBM Vice President Robert M. During this same year, IBM introduced Business Recovery Services as a formal business offering for customers, enabling them to continue operations in the event of an unplanned outage or disaster. Operations and Supply Chain.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Buck Consultants now operates out of multiple offices globally with a clientele that includes 45% of Fortune 100 companies. BUCK CONSULTANTS CULTURE . Buck also provides in-house, professor-taught actuarial study courses (in their largest offices) to help its employees as they strive to pass their exams. Healthcare Solutions.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In popular culture, we might call this kind of cognitive flexibility, “open-mindedness.” ” Philosophers had been studying why some people stubbornly cling to spiritual beliefs even when presented with evidence that they should abandon them, and why others will instead quickly adopt new beliefs.

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Peter Stark

AUGUST 19, 2021

Depending on which study you read, employees are definitely on the side of having more of a choice in where they work, as well as when. There is a reduction in travel expenses. And, even more of a concern, is the company culture. Organizations must operate with the customer’s needs in mind or face becoming obsolete.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 12, 2019

Using Laloux’s colour categorisations: Red, Amber, Orange, Green and Teal to describe the shifts in time, we looked at how these organisations are structured, what inspired their transition to the next evolution as well as what the general culture is like. You can read more about those points here. Anything less is bad practice.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Using Laloux’s colour categorisations: Red, Amber, Orange, Green and Teal to describe the shifts in time, we looked at how these organisations are structured, what inspired their transition to the next evolution as well as what the general culture is like. You can read more about those points here. Anything less is bad practice.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Study after study puts the failure rate closer to 70-90%. Organizations, processes, and cultures will be integrated for weeks and months after the organizations come together, causing disruption and uncertainty. It makes the culture too risk averse and squelches momentum. Patrizia Savarese/Getty Images.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 2, 2015

Kearney offers a broad range of services including Analytics, Mergers & Acquisitions, Operations and Strategy. Kearney’s travel model? Kearney: Consultants generally travel to their clients from Monday to Thursday, returning to their home office on Fridays. Are graduates able to gain exposure to more than one service line?

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 30, 2016

In addition, Economics degrees are highly theoretical – which often doesn’t equate to the very specific, actionable and data-driven consulting culture. A fun fact – Jenny Rae was an economics major at UVA, but famously decided to shave her head and travel the world after graduation (yeah, her parents were really proud).

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

I was immediately captivated by the dynamic and fascinating world of consulting, and began taking interest in studying cases. No other occupation offers you an insight into corporate strategy or operations in such a short time. Formulating their solutions became a rewarding intellectual challenge.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 7, 2017

In our study, recently published , we sought to understand the complexities surrounding the decision to speak up or not at work — from a small idea about how to change customer service conversations, to a more serious issue of professional wrongdoing. This brings us onto the third key question: 3. ” This lie? .”

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2017

For the 2016–2017 season, thousands of constraints needed to be taken into account related to travel, player fatigue, ticket revenue, arena availability, and three major television networks. increased the number of consecutive games teams played without traveling by 23%. Gartner estimates D&A projects falter 60% of the time.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 7, 2015

He has been with Marakon for more than 7 years, and joined directly as a fresh graduate from Oxford University where he studied Biochemistry and Molecular Microbiology. Tom: Alex, I understand that you studied Biochemistry and Molecular Microbiology at Oxford. What made you decide to pursue a career in strategy consulting?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

In fact, she logged nearly 200,000 miles that first year as she traveled to each site to share the strategy and reignite enthusiasm about the future of Xerox. Anderson studied the problem, sought to understand the perspectives of skeptics, and then articulated a compelling case for the change. “Defection slowed to a trickle.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. They Use Culture Change to Drive Engagement. Theodor Weimer , Country Chairman at UniCredit.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2017

HDP is a third-party administrator with expertise in the development and management of travel surgery programs, providing strategic and operational management of this program. Administrative leaders experienced with their hospital’s operational network are needed when the necessary new care pathways and processes are disruptive.

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

I was studying billiards. People are willing to travel for expertise, but they’re not willing to travel to hire a consultant from the other side of the world or the other part of the continent if they can get the same thing down the street. I’m trying to paint the picture of this wandering, aimless youth.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2018

This simple idea — that one should match the skill level of the individual to the skill requirements of a task — has influenced how many businesses operate. The Indian exemplar hospitals we studied have taken task-shifting to new heights by creating entirely new categories of low-cost health-care workers. Upskill employees.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 17, 2018

Being a remote employee myself, and having my entire team also fall into that category, forced me to think differently about how to build team culture and keep everyone engaged and motivated. I traveled to headquarters to meet the team, figure out the culture there, and get a clear sense of who controls what.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2016

“We live in a culture where work demands and deserves our undivided allegiance,” she says. ” She points to studies that have shown how the mere presence of a phone between two people affects the quality and content of their conversation. Case Study #1: Seek encouragement and reset your colleagues’ expectations.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Do you want to spend your weekends traveling? ” And if you’re relocating overseas, you’ll gain an “understanding of a different culture.” For instance, “the new cultural context you’re learning comes at the expense of your loss of network back home.” Or do you prefer a big city?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

” She suggests assessing the risks with questions like: What kind of culture am I in? “Work is often an antidote, a space where you can forget about what’s happening and operate as a functioning adult rather than feeling helpless in the face of these events.” ” Case Study #2: Ask for what you need.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Perhaps you didn’t fit in with the company’s culture, or you and your boss didn’t see eye to eye. “You have a golden moment in your job search where you’re operating at peak confidence and energy. Case Study #1: Devise a plan for talking about your old job and what you want out of your next.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The CEOs in our study were adept at telling their company’s story. Great stories are credible, simple, consistent, and use both financial and nonfinancial metrics to link a long-term vision and firm values with a distinctive business strategy and focused operational priorities. Adopt a Both/And Performance Mindset.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

In the end, a combination of unattainable objectives, an environment that lacked transparency, and a culture where failure was not perceived to be a viable option, led some VA administrators and clinic staff to manipulate data to make it appear as though the wait time goal was being achieved. The stakes, in other words, were high.

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Harvard Business

MAY 6, 2016

(Ever tally the hours you spent planning your last trip abroad if you didn’t use a travel agent to cut through the research?) The middlemen I studied did so in several key ways, three of which can be used effectively by middle managers and professionals as well: Look for gaps between the silos; that’s where the opportunity is.

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