Tom Spencer

JUNE 7, 2015

Alex Formstone is a Principal in Marakon ’s London office, and heads up recruiting in the UK for graduates and MBAs. I recently had the good fortune to talk briefly with Alex about his career, Marakon and its recruitment process. Once you join the firm you will be assigned a coach, who helps you with your professional development.

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Case Interview Interviews Recruiting Recruitment 60

Management Consulted

JANUARY 20, 2014

BearingPoint partners with the major technological suppliers, like Hewlett Packard, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP, to develop solutions and strategies suiting their clients’ requirements. International Development. Sustainable Development. BEARINGPOINT INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. Practice Areas. Human Resources.

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BearingPoint Interviews Oliver Wyman Capgemini 139

Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2020

To take advantage of this opportunity place focus on building agility, aligning the organization, operating as a team of teams, and developing your people. Retailers, grocery stores, and restaurants launched curbside pick-up. Develop a Team of Teams. Build Agility. Breweries pivoted to making hand sanitizers. Focus on People.

Leadership 62

Leadership Agile Operations Survey 62

Successful Independent Consulting

MARCH 15, 2017

Use keywords that recruiters and potential clients may use in their searches. Developing targeted solutions to increase performance. Not using it is like having a corner retail store but putting merchandise in only one of the two windows. Don’t just describe who you are and what you do. It doesn’t have to be just one phrase.

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Consulting How To Advertising Engineering 150

CaseInterview.com

JULY 18, 2019

Leadership Development. Consultants here tend to serve insurance, investment banking, retail banking, government agencies, payment processors, and private equity fund clients. 4) The Leadership Development practice works on the people side of businesses. Today, the four practices are: General Management Consulting.

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Oliver Wyman Case Interview Interviews Bain 49

Management Consulted

JANUARY 15, 2017

New Product Development (NPD) Execution. Kalypso may try and sell themselves to you as a strategy firm – although they do some business, innovation, and product development strategy, it doesn’t dominate their offerings. KALYPSO INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. Front End of Innovation. Innovation & Change Leadership.

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Interviews Culture Case Interview Intellectual Property 100

Management Consulted

MARCH 26, 2017

The Washington, DC office’s recruitment team hires highly intelligent people who start as great communicators but are trainable. In the DC office, consultants work on diverse projects for clients – industrial goods, consumer goods, retail, technology and communications, health care, and financial services companies.

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Oliver Wyman Consulting Deloitte Bain 100

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2018

She also explained how the HR department was redoubling its efforts to speed up the recruiting process and add more rigor to interviews to ensure new hires were more likely to be high performers. A large European retail bank modeled this well during an organizational overhaul. Involve Individuals at All Levels.

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Banking Interviews Retail Survey 53

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

In 2005, the firm developed their first 5-year plan with a goal to double revenues from approximately $427M to $1B in 5 years. There are 2 Senior Vice Presidents as well – one heads up Strategic Development and the other serves as Controller and Chief Accounting Officer. Retail & Consumer Products. Records management.

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Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Management Consulted

JANUARY 18, 2015

1997 – First Global Prize, an annual business school case study competition for potential recruits, awarded. Kearney aims to provide support for companies by helping them stay ahead of new market developments and positioning them to capture new opportunities. Firm hires 2,000th employee. Innovation. Strategic IT. Automotive.

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Interviews Culture Case Interview McKinsey 100

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

A few have announced year-end bonuses ( AT&T, Comcast ) or wage increases ( some retailers ). In a world of tight labor markets, where recruiting and retention are at a premium, investing to make frontline employees more productive should be a priority. But most have been reticent to say anything about their plans.

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Cash Flow Retail Fashion Efficiency 29

Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

I got a part-time job in a retail store, and in my downtime I just started a learning a lot of the tools necessary in order to be a producer/project manager in media. So I started searching for programs that consulting firms recruit from. Georgia Tech is a program that two firms recruit from that I would be interested in.

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Consulting Resumes Bain Recruiting 125

Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

At the same time, a close friend of Pratt’s, Raj Joshi, was working hard, trying to develop new offshoring strategies that would keep Deloitte ahead of the field. Thankfully though, we don’t have any recordings of their set… INFOSYS CONSULTING INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. Master Data Management. Content Management.

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Interviews Culture Consulting Deloitte 100

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

At L’Oréal, CEO Jean-Paul Agon signaled the company’s digital transformation when he recruited Lubomira Rochet to be the chief digital officer and a member of the executive team. ” Give Employees Direct Access to Consumers. One of us works for and the other advises General Assembly.)

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Media Fashion Agile Sales 34

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 11, 2016

The firm has developed an impressive client list of many Fortune 500 companies from a variety of industries, but the majority of its business comes from pharmaceutical, healthcare, and medical technology firms. Consumer & Retail. This says a lot about the type of firm culture Simon-Kucher has aimed to build. Practice Areas.

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Interviews Culture Case Interview Automotive 100

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 6, 2015

Recently, Alvarez & Marsal gained more territory in Europe and Asia by recruiting a new country head in Greece and by opening an office in Seoul, South Korea. As such, some junior players in the firm feel like their career development is limited. ALVAREZ & MARSAL INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. Practice Areas. Healthcare.

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Interviews Culture Turnaround Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

APRIL 10, 2017

“Think about the offer in terms of your development, your quality of life, and the variety of the work you want to do.” ” Databases and job search websites, such as Glassdoor, Indeed, Ladders, and Salary.com are a good starting point, but Lees recommends talking to recruiters and headhunters and others in the industry.

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How To Recruiting Recruitment Case Interview 49

Management Consulted

MAY 10, 2015

A global firm with a very interesting history, they’re known for motivating, developing and training their clients’ staff as well as the for research they carry out on the companies they work with. Retail services. Damion Sanders – Director, Talent/Executive Development at UnitedHealth Group. Industries . Communications.

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Groups Interviews Culture Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Only 13% of directors in the energy and utilities industry consider innovation to be a major strategic challenge, but the swift growth of renewable energy companies and such developments as the use of drones for monitoring oil and gas production suggest that no industry is impervious to the forces of innovation.

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Telecommunications Survey Biotechnology Industry 30

Harvard Business

AUGUST 17, 2017

retail), Shira Goodman (Staples, retail), Kevin Johnson (Starbucks, food services), Marc Benioff (Salesforce, software), Susan Wojcicki (YouTube, internet media), David Cohen (Techstars, startup accelerator), Bernard J. created a program called Women and Opportunity that aims to develop women for future leadership roles at Gap.

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Case Interview Talent Interviews Leadership 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 30, 2017

When it comes to training and workforce development, lots of them. It has trained and placed 11,000 graduates into entry-level jobs in four sectors: health care, tech, retail/sales, and skilled trades. The metrics we track include: productivity, cost savings in recruitment and training, quality, retention, and speed to promotion.

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Training Training ROI Metrics 31

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. A central reason is it is hard to identify and recruit good candidates who fit on all dimensions. Here’s what we learned.

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Strategy Strategy Strategy& Chemicals 28

Harvard Business

MAY 11, 2016

Instead, they recruit participants, and then sell each group of participants access to the other group of participants. Three of the five most highly valued companies in the world — Apple, Google, and Microsoft — make much of their profits from connecting different groups, like developers and users in the case of Apple.

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Operations B2B Groups Software 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 17, 2016

Its goals are extremely ambitious; it is not just a pioneer in developing new fabrics for active wear, but in developing wearable electronics. Starbucks, for example, has a strong presence because CEO Howard Schultz, deliberately developed a growth plan grounded in its capabilities.

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Company Engineering Apparel Energy 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2017

At EY, where some of us work, we have developed a tool for social media analytics called SMAART that is able to understand sentiment within consumer and influencer groups. And today some businesses such as retailers are using predictive analytics for hiring frontline staff. Developing these sorts of metrics will not be quick or easy.

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Change Management Data Company Management 28

Harvard Business

MAY 28, 2018

Large companies in industries ranging from retail, to aerospace, to financial services are buying talent and technology to develop new digital capabilities and reinvent themselves quickly. Julian Watt/Getty Images. million.

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Company Talent Accenture Transportation 28

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. If these areas are of interest to you, this will be a great place to learn and grow in your career.

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Oliver Wyman Mercer Consulting Deloitte 72

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 14, 2017

In the CVS-Aetna case, the care provider, a pharmaceutical retailer and pharmaceutical benefit manager, provides a very limited set of health services: drugs, drug purchasing, and selected, basic, routinized primary care at more than 1,100 local Minute Clinics located in communities around the United States.

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System Insurance Insurance Pharmaceuticals 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 31, 2017

billion, including most major firms in the manufacturing, consumer packaged goods, financial services, and retail industries. more likely to use analytics to develop perceptual intelligence about customers. more likely to collect data on employee performance and generate recommendations for development. Digital leaders are 2.5x

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Company Operations Data Benchmarking 28

Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

Some companies that made the list were obvious choices; for example, the biggest online retailer now gets most of its profit from cloud services (Amazon). He got the top job because of that, and then as CEO he accelerated cloud-business development to make it the company’s primary strategy.

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Methodologies Culture Metrics Company 45

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

In Grand Rapids, Michigan, for instance, Grid70 houses design, business innovation, and product development teams from a grocery chain, shoe retailer, and consumer goods manufacturer — no coding required. At Grid70, one tenant reported a 30%–40% reduction in product development time after a redesign of their workspace.

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Company Case Interview ROI Engineering 30

Harvard Business

JUNE 22, 2016

For example, do you make and sell things, hire skilled employees and provide services, develop and new IP like software or pharmaceuticals, or build and manage digital networks, be they transactional, informational, or social? That includes identifying your current mix of assets and the business model that your asset portfolio creates.

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How To Metrics Pharmaceuticals Hotels 30

Harvard Business

JULY 17, 2017

Based on what we’ve learned, here are some tips that can help recruiters and hiring managers alike better understand the contractor mindset and develop strategies to integrate them into their workforce. Be open to industry transfers and a range of experience levels.

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Real Estate Talent Survey Analysis 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 15, 2016

We think that the shift from leisure-as-status to busyness-as-status may be linked to the development of knowledge-intensive economies. We randomly assigned more than 450 respondents for a lab study to one of three conditions where participants read about a middle-aged consumer usually shopping at one of the three retailers.

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Research Study Analysis Productivity 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2016

In retailing, leaders worry about customer retention and dollar per square foot. ” Immelt notes that success requires GE’s willingness to change on many levels—from recruiting, to customer management, to technology. Under Immelt, GE decide to make rather than buy , and develop the needed capability in-house.

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Industry Metrics Transportation Strategy 28

Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2018

The close relationship developed through the farmers’ calls simply would not have been possible using the online platform, with its exclusive focus on the transaction. Second, it offered marketing tools and discounts to the ecosystems of avid cyclists — retailers, clubs, and teams. They were its 100 lovers.

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Case Interview Metrics Operations Strategy 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

What sets RPA apart from other automation technologies is that its ability to imitate a human user of one or more information systems reduces development time and extends the range of functions that can be automated across a much wider range of business activities. billion customer journey transformation program.

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Company Process Improvement Case Interview Efficiency 33