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How a Collaborative Culture Can Attract Young Professionals

Tom Spencer

Even if such initiatives are meaningless in practice, failing to include them as part of a firm’s recruitment talking points could result in top graduating talent flocking to other firms. Unfortunately, measuring productivity based on hours worked can seriously damage employee morale. The reason for this is obvious.

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Unlocking a Career as a Marketing Consultant

Tom Spencer

To do this, they should possess a keen understanding of the client’s target market and existing customer base, as well as the ability to recommend clear and actionable strategies to increase sales, expand the customer base, and develop new product offerings that will appeal to customers.

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Why an Internship is Not a Step Back During Graduate School

Tom Spencer

Computer science and computer engineering students might take a break from developing algorithms and instead develop code for a technology firm. Humanities and social science majors might want to develop new skills serving as an administration intern for government or academia. If you are pursuing a Ph.D. Build Your Network.

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Just How Bad Is Business Travel for Your Health? Here’s the Data.

Harvard Business

I went with the pizza, but my lack of choices was annoying — so much so that, when I got home, I started looking into the data on health and travel for work. According to the Global Business Travel Association and American Express , Americans took more than 500 million domestic business trips in 2016.

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Bulger Partners – Strategy Consulting for the Software Economy

Management Consulted

The firm does a significant amount of diligence work for PE firms, and also performs an assessment of their ability to compete from a technical and product standpoint for tech acquirers – Bulger Partners is the only firm in the industry currently providing this service. Be aware that the firm only recruits at a few select undergrad programs.

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Why an Innovation Culture Matters

Organizational Talent Consulting

Leaders that focus on cultivating an innovation culture and developing innovative leaders outperform their competition. improved operational productivity. Space travel alone is challenging, but reusing a rocket by landing it on a drone ship takes the complexity to another level. But, not all change is innovation.

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AlixPartners Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Consumer Products. Here’s a list of notable AlixPartners alumni (okay, none of them are brand-name or famous but all are impressive) include: Reid MacInnes Cuming – Founder – Platform Development LLC. Even for such a high travel firm, which we’ll discuss below, they all seem to be so gosh darn chummy with each other.