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Tap Existing Resources to Save Money on Your Technology Project

PM Alliance

Recruiting and hiring Some technology providers offer long-term staffing services for ongoing system maintenance and administration roles. These groups—including programmers, system admins, and web developers—can help orchestrate and execute tasks such as rolling out a beta testing program.

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How My Company Created an Apprenticeship Program to Help Diversify Tech

Harvard Business

Despite recent efforts to increase diversity in tech, the hiring and retention rates of underrepresented groups in the industry remain abysmal. I interviewed more than 50 people from underrepresented groups who have made it in the tech industry, asking them to help me understand why they weren’t applying for my open tech jobs.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

The office is incredibly diverse, with some of the best talent from 35+ countries and folks that speak 29 languages. 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.

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

Harvard Business

One of the most important and challenging decisions faced by corporate directors is whether to promote a new CEO from within or to hire new talent when a CEO leaves the company. Prior studies have two common methodological limitations. But if a new CEO must be found, then recruiters may want to look outside rather than in.

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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. million and $16.5

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

For our final project, the class was broken into small groups and each group wrote a 40 page paper examining a thesis in an industry of their choosing. My group chose to examine the U.S. This really motivates me to be a specific industry consultant who advises on overall group strategy to various business houses.”

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7 Factors of Great Office Design

Harvard Business

It’s one thing to note a person working solo in an otherwise empty seminar room, or a group of people huddling around someone’s desk because a conference room wasn’t available. Managers note that the fact that people linger there after meetings has increased inter-group learning. courtesy of HLW International.