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

The Management Centre

Tell us about what prompted you to commission training for your managers across the Calico Group? Another challenge for us was that we tend to attract people during recruitment who have great values and behaviours. Chris: The programme we implemented covered commercial thinking, finance skills, and innovation.

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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

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. If you happen to attend a non-target school then the next best thing would be to attend a virtual recruiting and case interview workshop.

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From STEM PhD to Federal Consulting: An Interview with Josh

Management Consulted

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.

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What If You Could Learn Design from Apple?

Harvard Business

The best ones are permeable membranes that transfer knowledge from the outside in: Steve Jobs recruited the Dean of Yale’s Business School to run Apple University, while Jeff Weiner recruited business coach and thought leader Fred Kofman to lead leadership development for LinkedIn. Ritz Carlton and Zappos follow a similar model.

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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. ” This ended up being the “true north” our employees rallied around.