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Career Bankers Alone Can’t Solve the Financial Industry’s Problems

Harvard Business

Some firms, like Deutsche Bank, are still trying to clamber out of holes they dug before the financial meltdown, negotiating multibillion-dollar settlements with the Department of Justice. The cornerstone of bank recruiting strategies should be experiential diversity enabled by a broad range of personal experiences and networks.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms in Washington, DC

Management Consulted

The Washington, DC office’s recruitment team hires highly intelligent people who start as great communicators but are trainable. The DC office management pushes training programs and the culture is all about grooming employees into McKinsey-bred consultants; they do everything they can to stay on top.

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From STEM PhD to Federal Consulting: An Interview with Josh

Management Consulted

Once I graduated with my Bachelor’s, I was a financial analyst by day and managed a bar a few nights per week. A year after graduation, my rugby career started to show promise and I quit my analyst job to focus on training and competing. As luck would have it, I was able to take an ownership role at the bar I was managing.

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Fixing the Gender Imbalance in Health Care Leadership

Harvard Business

This is despite women comprising 80% of the healthcare workforce and evidence that having women in upper management and on corporate boards is associated with improved financial performance and enhanced accountability. These numbers point to a clear need for better representation of female physicians in leadership.

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The Importance of a Good Success Story

The Nonprofit Consultant

The firm specializes in strategic planning, board development, financial management, program planning and evaluation and grants management. The old mission statement describes what the organization does day today - recruiting and training volunteers to act as host families. An old non-profit. But to what purpose?

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You Can Be a Great Leader and Also Have a Life

Harvard Business

That’s a question Jessica DeGroot sought to answer nearly 20 years ago when she started the nonprofit ThirdPath Institute, an organization dedicated to helping people find time for work, family, and life. Their strategies have since become the “ Vacation Checklist ” DeGroot shares with others at the nonprofit.

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As Machines Take Jobs, Companies Need to Get Creative About Making New Ones

Harvard Business

This practice helps companies recruit and incentivize workers. Imagine if Uber gave out stock to its drivers today — several years from now, if Uber becomes a successful autonomous car company, its former drivers would gain financially. It also offers a buffer against the downsides of technological unemployment for employees.

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