Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Even though we were following the typical playbook — posting open positions on job boards that specialize in attracting candidates from underrepresented groups, sponsoring events, giving scholarships, and training our employees on inclusion and hidden bias — we weren’t seeing progress. Native American, 18.1%

Company 37

Company Recruiting Recruitment ROI 37

Tom Spencer

JUNE 14, 2015

Tom: What kind of training and mentoring can graduates expect to receive at Vivaldi Partners Group? As part of the mentor program, we assign a senior partner to a handful of people on the mentor team, and we have a learning and development guideline that guides the process. Tom: How many interview rounds are there?

Groups 60

Groups Case Interview Industry Interviews 60

Harmonious Workplaces

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Can you believe we still need to write about these interview sins? After a phone screen and an in-person interview, a potential employee met with one of the firm’s executives. However, they shrugged it off and went to the office for the interview prepared with questions. Review state-specific laws for additional guidelines.)

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Interviews Guidelines Resources Ethics 52

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2017

A doctor’s medical toolbox and supply of best-practice guidelines, ample as they are, do not address a patient’s fears, grief over a diagnosis, practical issues of access to care, or reliability of their social support system. We disagree. Unhurried medical care may be elusive, but it is practical. Reimagining Roles.

Guidelines 42

Guidelines Efficiency System Meeting 42

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2017

As one physician CEO we interviewed for our study confessed, “If you show me a prototype, I can say, ‘Well, you could do this better.’ We found that although expert users excelled at refining existing products, they couldn’t always recognize a potential breakthrough innovation when they saw one.

Engineering 28

Engineering Study Productivity Guidelines 28

Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2017

This involved information sharing, training, and in some cases cooperative investigations focused on the misclassification problem. With the retraction of employer guidelines amid a business climate that views independent contracting as the default, is this commitment being eroded?

Case Interview 48

Case Interview Insurance Insurance Government 48

Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The insight you glean through interviews and focus groups provide you an independent and outside point of view - one of the key reasons why executives hire consultants in the first place. And if you're looking for real-world guidance and examples on how to get started, this training tutorial is that guidance. So let's get started.

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How To Groups Interviews Methodologies 156

Nash Consulting

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Let’s form an interview team, then after the interviews let me know what you think, and I’ll make the final decision.” “I Now that we’ve interviewed three people, let’s decide together, using consensus, which person we will hire.” Should the team of people who interviewed the candidates be empowered to decide on their own?

How To 52

How To Groups Interviews Policies 52

Confessions of a Consultant

AUGUST 12, 2018

Follow these guidelines… Explain the purpose of the meeting and thank the person for their time. I found it hard to believe myself – until we factored in the ‘waste’ of very high raw cost materials (silicon) that a new employee destroyed during a 9-month training period. Refer to the ‘early warning signal’ you’ve detected.

Talent 40

Talent Case Interview Engineering Interviews 40

Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2016

GE vice chairman Beth Comstock spoke to the issues of speed and continual customer input in a 2014 interview, when she said, “We work in these very complex, deep industrial technologies. More flexibility about making changes to ideas as they progress from concept to “minimum viable product” to finished product.

Company 28

Company Airlines Survey Methodologies 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 22, 2018

As the #MeToo movement geared up, and as prominent men resigned or were fired, organizations rushed to create or update anti-harassment policies, complaint procedures, and training programs. Programs, policies, and training alone do not stop sexual harassment and abuse. This approach may be misguided.

Policies 28

Policies Case Interview Guidelines Resources 28

Harmonious Workplaces

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

People Make the Difference Celebrated quantum-theory physicist and author Michio Kaku highlighted in an interview the fact that AI such as ChatGPT, Bard, and Bing return the works of other people purely (JRE, 2023). Complain to an AI, and you may train it in a biased manner because of its inability to reason, think, or feel.

Software 52

Software Ethics Chemicals Research 52