Tom Spencer

MARCH 9, 2019

So maybe you’ve gotten to the second round, maybe you’re still waiting to hear back, or maybe you’re hoping to interview again in the next recruitment cycle. And while an interview is not quite the same as a client meeting, it has a similar sort of pressure. Do you have the leadership and motivation necessary to succeed?

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Interviews Case Interview Consulting ROI 110

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 7, 2014

In 2003, Bridgespan created the “Bridgestar” initiative to focus on leadership development and to help professionals transition into nonprofit careers. Leadership Program: Leading for Impact. Leadership Effectiveness. Their services emphasized analytical consulting. Nonprofit Job Board. Networking Groups.

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Interviews Culture Bain Consulting 150

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Practice will only help for future interviews or next year’s recruiting cycle. Explore alternatives such as grad school, finance, and entrepreneurship. Suggested areas include finance (eg, investment banking and sales & trading) and the corporate track (eg, corporate management and product management).

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Resumes Consulting Case Interview Interviews 147

Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

Every now and then, I meet students in their final year at university who are worried about applying for graduate jobs in consulting. “It Not only is having a big brand name on your CV a valuable gain, you will also meet people from all over the organization who can give you advice and help you get a summer internship the year after.

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Oliver Wyman Banking How To Consulting 60

Management Consulted

JULY 3, 2016

Though antitrust remains Bates White’s largest practice area, the firm is recognized as an expert in environmental product liability, healthcare and life sciences, energy, and finance. Though the structure is flat, consultants work on niche projects and do not have too many levels of leadership to deal with. Practice Areas.

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Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 140

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Consultants get to travel quite a lot and meet different kinds of people and this makes them diverse and enables them to have insights, which others can only strive for. When I started out in the program, I quickly realized I was never cut out for finance or accounting. This left me with few options.

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Consulting Case Interview Interviews Engineering 204

The Nonprofit Consultant

JUNE 23, 2010

Any fewer and you will burn out your members quickly with multiple duties, have difficulty making a quorum when even a couple of people are ill or out-of-town, and you will fail to build in new leadership development into your regular board activities. Is the board leadership out-of-control and chasing good people away?

Nonprofit 69

Nonprofit Recruiting Recruitment Government 69

Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2017

In later-stage ventures, important skills include recruiting specialist employees, communicating vision to new employees, and managing company culture. A founder must be able to assess their own strengths and weaknesses and know how to recruit and motivate complementary founding team members.” ” Finance is less important.

Engineering 41

Engineering Survey Finance Recruiting 41

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

FTI Consulting has 5 areas of expertise, but excels in Forensic & Litigation Consulting and Corporate Finance/Restructuring. Corporate Finance/Restructuring. Promotions are dependent on how quickly you meet functional competencies and skill requirements set out for you by the powers that be. Leadership Forums.

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Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Today we highlight tremendous business analyst and post-consulting leadership jobs at Square. Engineers and designers work in concert in small teams; 90% of meeting spaces at the company’s offices are built for eight people or less. Are you an employer, recruiter, or hiring manager? Let us help you. Prepare for interviews.

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Culture Case Interview Interviews Engineering 100

Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2017

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. Change management certainly tested us. I just didn’t know in what ways.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 23, 2015

We’re not going to send you to Canary Wharf to work in finance. We also have particular training courses around client engagement, presenting in meetings, and presentation skills so that people get an equal balance of hard analytical skills and soft engagement skills. We recruit for experienced hires on a rolling basis.

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Cover Letters Recruiting Recruitment Case Interview 60

Halo Psych

JUNE 8, 2020

Of that time, Trevor Manuel, who worked with Mandela, first as the Minister of Trade and Industry and then Minister of Finance, says “There was a high degree of flux at that time: There was no paradigm, there was no precedent, there was nothing. Something I’m always reminding leadership teams to do. We had to carve it.”

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The Nonprofit Consultant

OCTOBER 23, 2007

An engaged board does more than simply show up for scheduled meetings and vote to approve minutes and budgets. Meetings of involved boards are not boring. Reports are sent out ahead of time, and members have read them before the meeting. Meetings are reserved for discussion of the reports, and decision making by the entire team.

Nonprofit 61

Nonprofit Journal Recruiting Recruitment 61

Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

Facing interconnected operational issues, members of the eight-person senior leadership team were turning against one another. The director of finance grumbled that overtime costs were too high, due to high turnover and the fact that employee sick time had spiked. And something was wrong.

Operations 29

Operations Hotels Case Interview Finance 29

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The executives I’m meeting are understandably nervous. Leadership is changing — fast. The second World War had left business slow and finances strained. Insight Center. The 21st-Century CEO. Sponsored by Cognizant. Anecdotal evidence supports this view. Just look to the early days of Hewlett-Packard.

Management 28

Management Talent Enterprise Financial 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 18, 2018

In regular phone calls and meetings for nearly two decades, as well as a biennial Pioneering Leaders summit, the group has been helping each other figure out how to work more effectively so they could have time for their lives, sharing successful strategies and learning from failures. “But weren’t sure how.”

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Conference Nonprofit Banking Groups 53

Harvard Business

MAY 2, 2016

Mindfulness meditation — the practice of cultivating deliberate focused attention on the present moment – has caught on as a way to bring focus, authenticity, and intention to the practice of leadership. Is the answer to simply recruit leaders and board members who engage in contemplative practices? It can’t hurt.

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Strategy Strategy Strategy& Exercises 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 27, 2017

The methodology: An analysis of email communication and meeting schedule data for hundreds of employees in one office over four months. Students also rated their leadership abilities and professional ambition. Women were also denied financing 53% of the time, while men’s applications were dismissed 38% of the time.

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Research Methodologies Analysis Travel 14

The Nonprofit Consultant

JUNE 21, 2006

Perhaps you are looking to add a leadership component to your volunteer activities and resume. You will have the opportunity to use your special knowledge - be it in marketing, finance, or event planning - in a manner that will help shape the organization for years to come. Use this as an opportunity to ask about the organization.

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Nonprofit Resumes Interviews Meeting 45

Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2018

For many of us, it’s finances that keep us from making a career change. A well-respected HR manager in the public sector, leading his own recruitment team and earning a decent salary. He considers himself risk-averse, so when he made the move from nonprofit leadership to starting his own business, he did so with caution.

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Nonprofit Financial Insurance Insurance 40

Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. Being able to recruit globally is supposed to help tech powerhouses like Facebook and Amazon find the talent they need. But in April, just after U.S. jobs overall.)

Engineering 31

Engineering Talent Information Technology Information Technology 31

Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

We recruited a panel of expert judges (see the list below), who evaluated the companies through the lens of their own expertise and gauged which transformations were most durable and had the highest impact in their industries.

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