Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

The potential for spring internship recruiting madness is over – at least temporarily. Earlier this week, Wall Street titans Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan announced (mercifully) that undergrad internship recruiting would move back from Sophomore spring to the fall of … Continue Reading. The post Big Banks move internship recruiting back – what it means for consulting internship recruiting appeared first on Management Consulted.

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

I've been a little quiet lately because I've shifted my focus a bit. New firm, new focus. AKA different day, same old s**t. It took me a little while to get settled in but now that the polish has worn off my new shoes I'm ready to start complaining again. Are you with me? So this is my first time around startups instead of big firms. But even so, I think readers of the Crazy Lives will recognize relevance in what's happening here.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

beastfromeast/Getty Images. Sometimes a simple story is all it takes to capture complex issues, or so it seems. Take this one. A few years ago, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg lost a game of Scrabble to a friend’s teenage daughter. “Before they played a second game, he wrote a simple computer program that would look up his letters in the dictionary so that he could choose from all possible words,” wrote New Yorker reporter Evan Osnos.

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Seth Godin Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

The answer to your quandary is right there, in front of you. It’s just that it involves more work, more risk or more trade-offs than you were hoping for.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Deanna Kelly/Getty Images. Despite recent efforts to increase diversity in tech, the hiring and retention rates of underrepresented groups in the industry remain abysmal. Even Facebook, with billions in cash, has only been able to increase their number of women employees from 31% to 36% over the last five years. At Treehouse, an online school that helps companies hire developers and designers, we’re seeing the same problem.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Tim Robberts/Getty Images. When it comes to health care costs, America’s employers are at a crossroads. Competing for scarce labor in a tight market, they will have trouble continuing to shift medical bills onto employees as they have for several decades. That means that to control costs going forward, employers may have to confront the true underlying causes of rising health care expenditures: high prices and health care inefficiencies.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

PM Images/Getty Images. Over the past few years, most businesses have come to recognize that the ability to collect and analyze the data they generate has become a key source of competitive advantage. ZF, a global automotive supplier based in Germany, was no exception. Digital startups had begun producing virtual products that ZF did not know how to compete against, and engineers in logistics, operations, and other functions were finding that their traditional approaches couldn’t handle th

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