Management Consulted

APRIL 11, 2016

Founded in 1990, The Brattle Group is a relatively new kid on the block, but its story began in 1983, when Incentives Research Inc. The Brattle Group is now considered one of the European Union’s top consulting firms in the areas of energy, finance and competition. Regulatory finance. Brattle Group Engagement Cost: $300K.

Groups 100

Groups Interviews Culture Case Interview 100

Asamby Consulting

DECEMBER 14, 2022

These specialists usually have some valuable experience, sometimes through formal training (MBA etc.) Operations Consultants Operations consultants look into your company and help you make it run smoothly. Finance Consultants Finance consultants for small business help you analyze the numbers your business is producing.

Small Business 52

Small Business Cash Flow Consulting ROI 52

Brimstone Consulting

MARCH 21, 2023

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) measures the sustainability and ethical impact of a company’s operations. In fact, research shows that companies with strong ESG performance tend to outperform their peers in the long run. Companies that ignore ESG factors risk losing out on opportunities and facing reputational damage.

Government 14

Government Ethics Leadership Financial 14

Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

MD or PhD), is whether to pursue residency training for newly minted physicians or a post-doctoral research fellowship for PhDs. This is a very difficult decision for many because deciding not to follow further training may eliminate the possibility of going back to the academic and clinical realm that they spent so much time in.

Healthcare 60

Healthcare Consulting Recruiting Recruitment 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. BATES WHITE ORGANIZATION. headed by Chairman & Senior Partner Charles E Bates. Practice Areas. Antitrust & Competition. Intellectual Property.

Interviews 140

Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 140

Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2018

The company has also hired hundreds of workers to revamp production processes, train (and retrain) the robots, and swap them out when needed, among other tasks. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Some Training Required. To be precise, my mistake. Adding Humans to the Mix. Adopting AI.

Engineering 38

Engineering Training Training Analysis 38

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

The practice areas at Towers Watson reflect the operational nature of consulting projects at the firm: Communication and Change Management. Corporate Risk Management and Risk Financing. with over 54 offices in operation. Practice Areas. Employee Surveys. Executive Compensation. Global Data Services. Health and Group Benefits.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 11, 2015

Well, I grew up in Bethesda, MD, and attended the University of Vermont in Burlington, VT for – BS (finance), MS (nutritional sciences), and PhD (cell and molecular biology). A year after graduation, my rugby career started to show promise and I quit my analyst job to focus on training and competing. I’m doing great, thank you.

Interviews 100

Interviews Consulting Government Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

One reason for the paltry performance is that while other business areas, like sales or finance, are considered to be core functions, innovation is often considered to be something that’s “nice to have” rather than essential. Another pervasive reason is that senior executives are trained as operators, not innovators.

ROI 28

ROI Operations Enterprise Research 28

Harvard Business

MAY 26, 2016

Our research suggests an alternative to this race to the bottom. Workers specialize in simple, highly routinized operations. They are incentivized to complete operations as quickly as possible. Operations in a Connected World. Producers in less-developed countries compete by keeping costs low. Insight Center.

Apparel 34

Apparel Operations Development Accenture 34

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

It was then that I found, after researching here, that my passion actually lay in consulting.! ” “Consulting struck me as my ideal future career after I quickly began researching everything there was to know about it after simply hearing about it through word of mouth. It was like “Oh!! Here’s my destiny!”

Consulting 204

Consulting Case Interview Interviews Engineering 204

MishTalk

JUNE 27, 2014

Ghost cities, ghost malls, and empty train stations in China have been in the news for years. A Tianjin local-government financing vehicle connected to the developments said revenue fell 68 percent in 2013 to an amount that’s less than one-third of debt due this year. Malinvestment in China proceeds at a staggering pace.

Hotels 78

Hotels Banking Construction Government 78

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 7, 2014

In 2000, the group launched its first website, www.bridgespan.org, and started operations from a Boston-based office. Additionally, Bridgespan also has a Knowledge Advisory Board from which it draws insight and experience to ensure that its research and publishing efforts are guided by a clear understanding of the nonprofit sector.

Interviews 150

Interviews Culture Bain Consulting 150

Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2018

The report said that 44 percent of companies report that agile practices are widely used within the development team, and 41 percent say the same thing for IT operations, leaving a significant percentage still using it in pockets, or not at all. Production and operations (82 percent). HR, finance, and administration (78 percent).

Agile 29

Agile Survey Company Data 29

LSA Global

MAY 5, 2020

Sales leaders are responsible for building and scaling the sales team, designing meaningful compensation plans, training and onboarding new hires, and simultaneously meeting quarterly revenue and margin targets. Until you can answer these questions, your sales team will not be operating as the high performance team you desire.

Sales 36

Sales Culture System Talent 36

Asamby Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2022

This blog post gives you the comprehensive answer: Why compensation is important How to structure your fixed salary components What options for variable pay are there How to pick the right perks and benefits What allowances are and what to pay them for What long-term incentives are out there How strategy and finance influence compensation Let's go!

ROI 40

ROI Tools Travel Sales 40

Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

Compared to professions like engineering or business disciplines like Finance or Operations, the concept of a dedicated salesperson is relatively recent. ” As Walter Friedman documents in Birth of a Salesman , sales wasn’t seen as a function that required specialized training or education until well into the 20 th century.

Sales 28

Sales Education Training Training 28

Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2018

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. But there is a pattern among these critics, which is that they rarely ask how well the systems they analyze would operate without algorithms. What Does the Research Say? So what’s going on here? But humans can’t be all that bad, right?

Research 28

Research Policies Study Data 28

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Some of the major practice areas that the NYC region focuses on are corporate development, corporate finance, digital economy, globalization, growth, information technology, marketing & sales operations, people and organization, post merger integration, risk management, strategy, sustainability, and transformation.

Consulting 157

Consulting Deloitte Bain McKinsey 157

Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

And in January 2017, McKinsey’s research arm estimated AI-driven job losses at 5%. Yet our research also found that, in the shorter term, these fears may be overblown. . So that year, AP began working with an AI firm to train software to automatically write short earnings news stories.

Company 43

Company Survey Finance Engineering 43

Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2018

. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.” Truly, business interests and societal interests can be one and the same. Let’s take a closer look at each: 1.

Nonprofit 36

Nonprofit Government Company Operations 36

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Through informational interviews and background research (such as scanning leaders’ LinkedIn profiles), try to get a sense of their educational background. Formal degree programs excel at general education: an MBA, for instance, gives you a little bit of everything you might need as a leader, from finance to marketing to operations.

Education 28

Education Case Interview Course Finance 28

Management Consulted

JULY 2, 2017

Based on the (largely analytical) services they cater to in Boston, the firm has a never-ending supply of interesting work, wonderful benefits, and strong training programs. Lots of things – from strategy, operations, and risk management to organizational transformation and leadership development.

Oliver Wyman 72

Oliver Wyman Mercer Consulting Deloitte 72

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

As consulting firms go, FTI Consulting is a newcomer – but at just over 30 years old, the firm has made impressive strides to become one of the most respected name in legal analysis and data-driven research to support major initiatives for law firms, banks and the majority of the Fortune 500. Corporate Finance/Restructuring.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Behavioral science research tell us that households, small business owners, and CEOs of multinationals alike are prone to overweight recent adverse events, follow the decisions of their peers , compartmentalize risks , and engage in many other behaviors that economists have traditionally considered peculiar.

Insurance 28

Insurance Insurance Small Business Finance 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2017

In his recent Harvard Business Review article, Stanford’s Nicholas Bloom presents research on the role that firms play in explaining rising wage inequality in the U.S. Both the article and the research are revelatory in a number of respects, and I applaud Bloom’s efforts to return firms to the inequality conversation.

Marketing 28

Marketing Balance Sheet System Training 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Workers were carefully trained to follow processes exactly as they were laid out. Our research into over 20,000 workers of all skill levels across U.S. In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely.

Metrics 44

Metrics Engineering Operations Sales 44

Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2018

You can envision the high-level actions that might follow such as: Design a training program for all staff in made-to-order food handling procedures. This will be conditioned, of course, by customer research. Periodic special offerings to spur customer interest.

System 51

System Strategy Strategy Strategy& 51

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Even more recent technologies like deep learning are based on research that took place in the 1980s. New research is being conducted all the time, but the mathematical and statistical foundations of current AI are well established. System Development Time. Algorithms will also have to be continuously monitored for bias.

Company 28

Company System Engineering Data 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

AI systems must be built from the get-go to operate in trust-based partnerships with people. Bias could be introduced into an AI system through the training data or the algorithms. And because these are learning systems, researchers believe that AI systems can, over time, observe human behavior to fill in some of the gaps.

Ethics 28

Ethics System Data Development 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Virtually every company we spoke to relied on nonprofit intermediaries to find candidates who had committed to training programs or apprenticeships in both hard and soft skills for the chance of stepping onto a career ladder. A study conducted by Innovate + Educate , which uses research-based strategies to address the U.S.

Talent 28

Talent Education Engineering Software 28

Management Consulted

JULY 19, 2015

It made me do more research on BCG and name a couple things that I really think I would enjoy if I were to work there. What kind of training did you do, or what kind of reading did you do in order to prepare for this specific case so that you could get up to speed?” Do I not seem professional?” ” Does that make sense?

Interviews 100

Interviews Case Interview Bain Finance 100

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Our research identifies an underlying cause: what we call a “masculinity contest culture.” rogue traders in finance). Our research documents numerous negative consequences that harm the bottom line and put the organization’s effectiveness and reputation at risk.

Culture 28

Culture Research Finance Examples 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

To look into this question, I conducted a case study as part of my dissertation research involving 23 women of color at a Fortune 500 company. They were employed in midlevel to upper-midlevel management positions in strategy, finance, marketing, legal, operations, and technology functions.

Management 46

Management Leadership Culture Development 46

Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 17, 2023

UNDERSTANDING THE LOCAL CULTURAL CONTEXT Today many industries and organizations operate on a global scale. Usually, due diligence is conducted by lawyers and experts in finance or accounting rather than experts in understanding and diagnosing culture. Lack of cultural due diligence is often a problem.

Culture 52

Culture Resources Tools Leadership 52

Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2016

Digital transformation halts, or fails, for many reasons—but most often it’s because minor changes at the surface level do nothing to affect the fundamental operations of a company. In consulting, leaders invest in hiring and training people and then carefully track how they use their time.

Industry 28

Industry Metrics Transportation Strategy 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 27, 2017

In reality, “handoffs” and transitions prove to be significant operational problems. The firm effectively trains its people to hire and work with the world’s best and brightest algorithms. They use machine learning software to better train machine learning software.

Enterprise 28

Enterprise Software Data Engineering 28