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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

As usual getting into McKinsey is tough, but it’s even tougher in NYC – with many target recruiting schools nearby and hundreds of aspirants swarming to locate in NY, it’s a highly competitive office. The Boston Consulting Group. With HQ in New York, firm practices are based on the EVA methodology.

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Startups Are More Vulnerable to Fraud. Here’s Why.

Harvard Business

We recruited 250 experienced purchasing and sales managers and allocated them between the experiments. We divided each study’s sample into three sub-groups: We informed the first group that the firm they were negotiating with (that is, their counterpart’s employer) was a startup.

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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business

Our research has found that embedded sustainability drives financial performance through mediating factors such as innovation, operational efficiency, risk reduction, employee recruitment, engagement and retention, customer and supplier loyalty, competitive advantage, reduced cost of capital, and improved marketing and sales.

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A.T. Kearney Interview & Culture

Management Consulted

1997 – First Global Prize, an annual business school case study competition for potential recruits, awarded. Marketing & Sales. Kearney boasts about its Fit Transformation™ methodology, designed specifically to align companies’ strategy, operating model, and people to bring lasting transformation.

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A Study of Hospitals Found That Outsider CEOs Make Their Organizations More Productive in the Long Run

Harvard Business

Prior studies have two common methodological limitations. We reached these conclusions by comparing 490 CEO succession decisions with a control group of 1,150 firms in the health sector. When both groups were compared with hospitals that hadn’t changed CEOs, however, both groups fell behind over the five-year period we studied.

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The Deep Flaw in MBB Strategic Planning

CaseInterview.com

When I first started recruiting for consulting jobs, an interviewer at Bain shared a story (arguably a legend at this point) about how Bain (or it might have been McKinsey) was asked to advise Motorola on whether or not they should enter the mobile phone market. But what happens in smaller markets or with smaller clients?

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Pay your team right: A comprehensive guide to compensation

Asamby Consulting

Next to effective recruiting, getting compensation right is one of the most important tools to position your company well in the market. Very common in sales roles, the commission is a percentage of some form of transaction that the employee gets. For a sales role, the commission might be 0.5% of the transaction volume.

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