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Fireside Chat – Consulting Recruiting at Target and Non-Target Universities

Tom Spencer

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to sit down with another blog contributor to the SpencerTom community, Jason Oh, to share our experiences about the consulting recruiting process. However, you’ll grow your knowledge base much faster than most industry jobs. How is recruiting done at your school?

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Consulting 101: Operations, Hierarchies, and Types of Firms

Tom Spencer

In this short post, we will briefly explore how consulting firms work, the hierarchy within firms, the main types of firms, and a few ways to learn more about a particular firm as you chart your career path, prepare your applications, and get ready to matriculate into the consulting industry. How do Consulting Firms Work?

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Gallup Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Survey research was his passion and he began to apply these procedures to various fields of industry. He developed research methods and programs for the television and movie industry to help clients determine advertising effectiveness and how to identify what the market wanted to watch in film and television. Strengths-Based Selection.

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A.T. Kearney Interview & Culture

Management Consulted

Kearney becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of EDS in September, nearly doubling in size and vastly expanding its industry expertise and information technology capabilities. 1997 – First Global Prize, an annual business school case study competition for potential recruits, awarded. Industries. Firm hires 2,000th employee.

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How to Set Up an AI R&D Lab

Harvard Business

trillion, it’s clear why the battle to recruit from this scarce group has become the industry’s defining challenge. At the moment, AI is more of an open frontier than an industry-friendly space. In a knowledge-based economy, research becomes the means of production. trillion and $5.8

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Business Spotlight: Stanford GBS grad launches Returnships

Management Consulted

It’s their largest portfolio investment ever, and one of the things I did for them was to develop their MBA recruiting strategy, and their MBA internship program. When I left the University of Utah, I went to go consult with Medalia, which is one of the fastest growing companies in the Bay area. It’s backed by Sequoia.

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How We Think About Innovation at Cisco

Harvard Business

From drones to refrigerators, from massive industrial robots to tiny, implanted medical devices, machines already are communicating with other machines, sharing data and, without human guidance, accomplishing ever more sophisticated tasks. Experts from outside industries. No one doubts that the future belongs to the Internet of Things.