Harvard Business

JANUARY 4, 2018

Conducting in depth interviews with 50 people who’d dramatically improved their self-awareness to learn about the key actions that helped them get there, as well as their beliefs and practices. The highly self-aware people we interviewed were actively focused on balancing the scale. Take Jeremiah, a marketing manager.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 17, 2017

Our semi-structured interviews, follow-ups, and archival data analysis was guided by a theoretical discussion on how trust in the technology and in the innovating firm and its communication is facilitated. Introducing innovations in a stepwise fashion can lead to more gradual social learning, which in turn builds trust.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

To explore this question, we interviewed senior marketing executives across dozens of top brands. However, recently they began to take a more holistic approach, focusing on lifetime value and their most profitable segment, the “fashionable spender.” The metrics also changed.

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Emerson Consulting Group

MAY 7, 2019

So inspired to uncover a solution to this, Henry took himself back to Harvard for a week to engage in an MBA-like “independent study” project, specifically aimed at how to fashion a “recipe” for pencil lead that would transform Thoreau pencils into an efficient product that everyone could use and love.

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Prudent Pedal

JANUARY 21, 2020

It’s just a good old-fashioned understanding of client needs, combined with intelligent segmentation, aligned with consultative selling, and assisted by technology. The terms are similar to the now trite buying “stages” but Gartner validated its job moniker twist with hundreds of B2B buyer interviews. A few superstars rise even higher.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

“Technically, cars today are very different from ten years ago,” says Sällström, whom we interviewed for our book, Talent Wins. The result was clear: to move into the premium-brand tier, Volvo needed new people with different skills. “Once, you needed mechanical engineers.

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Buzzsprout

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Celebrity interviews Having celebrities on your podcast is a huge draw to new listeners and can help you get featured on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Beauty and fashion Talk about the latest fashion trends and make it niche by focusing on a particular age group or style. Dressed: The History of Fashion Breaking Beauty Podcast 9.

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Harvard Business

JULY 27, 2018

Consultants are sometimes accused of trying to hoodwink their clients with smoke and mirrors, using management fashions or buzzwords for their own benefit. Clients might reason, “ We shouldn’t have to train you ! But our research suggests that they are far from being arch manipulators who control every interaction.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 24, 2018

Of course, this explanation is easier to provide if you’ve been “up front” about what people should expect from the start,” Weintraub says, including how interviews and evaluations will work and how long it might take for a decision to be made. Deliver the news in a timely fashion. Be empathetic.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 22, 2020

Interview Transcript: Betsy: Good afternoon. What I realized when I started traveling around the world and working with midwives and traditional birth attendants is that the tools that I had learned at Georgetown where I trained, which were mostly centered around pharmacy and surgery, were limited. I'm so excited you're here.

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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. I found it hard to believe myself – until we factored in the ‘waste’ of very high raw cost materials (silicon) that a new employee destroyed during a 9-month training period. Are you kidding?”.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Thankfully, everything stayed in a nice orderly fashion, the way accountants like it, after the audit portrayed Peat Marwick in a favorable light. KPMG CONSULTING INTERVIEWS & RECRUITING. You can expect things to go down like this, should you apply to KPMG: The first step is a phone interview or an interview on campus.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2016

” We conducted 75 semi-structured confidential interviews with leaders in the C-suite or one to three levels below C-suite in both Fortune 500 companies and non-profit organizations. After subjecting these interviews to a rigorous qualitative analysis, we saw several themes emerge. providing gender-aware mentoring and coaching.

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Confessions of a Consultant

MAY 28, 2017

The Internet video that went viral (the guy completing the Skype interview in Korea) shows the importance of having boundaries. While the cost of labour turnover is seldom measured – substantial recruitment and training lead times represent an enormous cost in some businesses. What about heat and light? It’s presenteeism.

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

And Gulati’s research, including interviews with 500 executives spanning industries and geographies, asserts that outside-in success is not confined to any one sector. Best Buy responded by reengineering the design of its stores and training some of its staff to be generalists who could help women traverse their stores.

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