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The Top 8 Undergrad Consulting Majors

Management Consulted

If you’re an undergrad with a desire to break in to consulting, an economics degree will train your mind to tackle problems and make you an attractive prospect for internships and Masters’ programs. Engineering (Mechanical Engineering is the most operationally focused). The knock on engineering?

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The Kinds of Data Scientist

Harvard Business

The other creates output for machines to consume like models, training data, and algorithms. These data scientists design, define, and implement metrics, run and interpret experiments, create dashboards, draw causal inferences, and generate recommendations from modeling and measurement. They are decision scientists. What is the output?

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How to Assess Entry-Level Product Manger Positions

Tom Spencer

If you have views on on-boarding, shaping, and training young product managers, you can effectively mold these programs to fit your vision. Here are some questions to ask your recruiter, interviewer or APM coordinator: How long has the APM program been around? How many cohorts have graduated from it? How big is the average cohort?

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7 Compensation Strategies for Cash-Strapped Startups

Harvard Business

As a startup founder, I’m constantly struggling to recruit top talent without breaking the bank. How do you recruit a developer making well into six figures, or an experienced salesperson with four kids in private school? A caveat here: Make sure incentives align with metrics over which the employee has control.

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To Go Digital, Leaders Have to Change Some Core Beliefs

Harvard Business

In consulting, leaders invest in hiring and training people and then carefully track how they use their time. ” Immelt notes that success requires GE’s willingness to change on many levels—from recruiting, to customer management, to technology. Uncover the core beliefs that motivate these behaviors. .”

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What Airbnb and Strava Know About Building Emotional Connections with Customers

Harvard Business

Their relative value is remarkable across a variety of metrics, such as purchases and frequency of use. Cyclists who would wake up at 6 AM and climb a seemingly impossible route after months of training wanted the feeling of being able to race against others, or themselves, and of improving their performance. They were its 100 lovers.

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Make “Fairness by Design” Part of Machine Learning

Harvard Business

” A chatbot trained using Twitter was shut down after only a single day because of its obscene and inflammatory tweets. Machine learning models used in a popular search engine struggle to differentiate human images from those of gorillas , and show female searchers ads for lower paying jobs relative to male users.

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