Fashion Interviews Talent Training 
Harvard Business
APRIL 12, 2018
In January, fashion retailer H&M came under fire for an advertisement featuring a young black boy in a green hoodie bearing the words “coolest monkey in the jungle.” The CEOs also told me that retention of diverse talent was particularly challenging.
Harvard Business
MARCH 12, 2018
Many legacy companies would like to transform themselves into agile, talent-first organizations. Developing what we call an “M&A strategy for talent” is one way to overcome this. . The CHRO needs to be at the center of any acquisition of talent from the outside. “Once, you needed mechanical engineers.
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Harmonious Workplaces
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
Can you believe we still need to write about these interview sins? After a phone screen and an in-person interview, a potential employee met with one of the firm’s executives. However, they shrugged it off and went to the office for the interview prepared with questions. Don’t get angry or defensive.
Management Consulted
FEBRUARY 5, 2017
The office is incredibly diverse, with some of the best talent from 35+ countries and folks that speak 29 languages. To support the office’s growing employee base, Bain moved in 2015 to a new location in the fashionable Grace Building, which is located directly across the street from historic Bryant Park.
Confessions of a Consultant
AUGUST 12, 2018
Management consulting can be likened to a ‘fashion business’, in the sense that new ideas fall in and out of vogue all the time. The book attempted to distil the methods deployed by the best-managed companies to create what’s sometimes referred to as sticky talent. Don’t take talent for granted.
Harvard Business
JANUARY 24, 2018
News of this kind is “hard to hear, and it’s hard to deliver,” says Joseph Weintraub, a professor at Babson College and the coauthor of The Coaching Manager: Developing Top Talent in Business. Deliver the news in a timely fashion. Be empathetic. Praise and validate your employee. Don’t: Procrastinate.
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 7, 2016
From previous research , we already know that these “male champions” genuinely believe in fairness, gender equity, and the development of talent in their organizations, and that they are easily identified by female leaders for the critical role they play advancing women’s careers. And what do they have in common?
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