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What gives Charity Managers a leading edge? Balancing commercial management with a social heart

The Management Centre

Chris Chadford, Learning and Development Manager at the Calico Group In this interview Chris Chadford, Learning and Development Manager at the Calico Group, shares his experience of developing managers so they have commercial, financial and innovation skills. mc: So you had a blended learning approach with workshops.

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From STEM PhD to Federal Consulting: An Interview with Josh

Management Consulted

Here at MC, we had the pleasure of recently interviewing Josh and asking him how he’s navigated his interesting career path, and how consulting was a great place for his passions and skills to collide. I was selected to interview at both the NIH and the DoD and subsequently was offered positions in both organizations.

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From the Bench and Bedside to the Boardrooms (How to transition from academia into consulting, Part 1 of 2)

Tom Spencer

Excelling in the Interview. Make sure you take time to find who the recruiting contacts are for your region of the country or even your specific school and be comfortable reaching out to those individuals. The Application Process. Case Practice. Do Your Homework! Now depending on what school you attend this may or may not be possible.

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Two Powerful Ways Managers Can Curb Implicit Biases

Harvard Business

The workshops companies invest in typically teach them to constantly check their thoughts for bias. While interviewing a candidate, we might ask her where she went to school or to share her experiences. They even went so far as redact the names of schools and prior employers during the interview process.

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What Spinning Off a GE Business Taught Me About Managing Ultra-Fast Change

Harvard Business

So four years ago, when I was CEO of GE Capital Retail Finance and tapped to lead a mega change initiative — splitting off our unit into a new, publicly traded company, Synchrony Financial — I’ll admit I viewed it as a huge challenge. What words evoked the passion they felt about the organization? What values drove them?