Tom Spencer

JUNE 7, 2015

Alex Formstone is a Principal in Marakon ’s London office, and heads up recruiting in the UK for graduates and MBAs. I recently had the good fortune to talk briefly with Alex about his career, Marakon and its recruitment process. To date, a lot of our work in financial services has been focused on insurance and wealth management.

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Case Interview Interviews Recruiting Recruitment 60

Management Consulted

JANUARY 20, 2014

” This is an international training week to learn more about the company and build a personal network within the firm. Lots of excellent training is available and other co-consultants are very helpful. BEARINGPOINT INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. If BearingPoint comes to your school to recruit, let us know! Industries.

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BearingPoint Interviews Oliver Wyman Capgemini 139

Management Consulted

JANUARY 25, 2016

Another knock-on effect of working with a bunch of gurus is that meaningful on the job training is often hard to come across. Although it’s very common for large firms to offer health insurance, etc., ALIXPARTNERS INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING . The health care is good, that’s for sure. Core Values. 2 in restructuring and No.

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Interviews Culture Turnaround Case Interview 100

Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Industry Related Practices: Energy, Environmental Economics, Health Care and Life Sciences, Insurance, Postal Services, Communications Networks and Media, Transport, Water. . They post available internships during the winter months on Marsh & McLennan’s recruiting website. . Employee Lifestyle. .

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NERA Economic Consulting Interviews Oliver Wyman Consulting 147

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Managers rarely yell, coworkers try to help each other out whenever possible, and companies are organized to provide consultants support with training, expertise, etc. Call me biased, but I received the best years of business training possible in my time at McKinsey. This attitude permeates all interactions. 3 SKILL DEVELOPMENT.

Banking 272

Banking Boston Consulting Group Consulting Management 272

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Plus, it will be a bit of insurance to have a full-time offer if you do consider going through fall recruiting – it will relieve much of the stress. Plus, they have global staffing – which means that it’s easier to train you and slot you into project rotations off-cycle. Why not go for M/B/B too?

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Strategy Strategy Strategy& Case Interview 128

1 to 1

MAY 26, 2022

Business intelligence supports numerous functions across an organization from recruitment and hiring to training and compliance, as well as marketing and sales. An outlier model can also be used to predict fraud by highlighting outliers in financial transactions or insurance claims. A brave new data world.

Data 26

Data Tools Sales ROI 26

Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2017

These are areas in which recently available, off-the-shelf AI tools, such as Google’s Cloud Speech API and Nuance’s speech recognition API, can be used, and they don’t require massive investment in training and hiring. This all leads to the question of how best to recruit the resources for these efforts.

Insurance 37

Insurance Insurance Video Training 37

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 14, 2017

billion deal to buy DaVita Medical Group , bring together a very large national insurer and a large provider of health care services. Combining an insurance function with a delivery system has ample precedent in health care. Both CVS’s planned $69 billion acquisition of Aetna and UnitedHealth’s $4.9

System 28

System Insurance Insurance Pharmaceuticals 28

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

First, consulting services were added for property and casualty insurance claim adjusters and attorneys. FTI’s Summer Internship program has met with great success for the company and is fast becoming their main source for full-time recruitment. The move raised $11.1M 1997: FTI acquired LWG. This provided two major benefits.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Our business manager handles the rest of our “HR” functions like administering payroll, health insurance, and 401K enrollment issues.) Among the group, 30 had a written sexual harassment policy, 14 had held a company-wide meeting, and 10 had conducted a training session on the subject.

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Company Small Business Policies Case Interview 42

Harvard Business

MAY 26, 2017

Several studies have shown that a patient such as Janice might be less likely to have insurance, less likely to have a regular physician , less likely to report symptoms, less likely to seek preventive care, and less informed about the lifestyle changes she should make to improve her health. Insight Center. The Leading Edge of Health Care.

Culture 40

Culture Training Training Insurance 40

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Even though these programs were covered by insurance, making them essentially free, only 20,000 adults took advantage, or less than 1/1000th of 1% of the at-risk population. As one leader said, “We have scaled up a (youth job-training) program we are very proud of, but people are not coming through the doors.”

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Nonprofit Wireless Training Training 33

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Identifying, recruiting , and retaining the right employees are among the most important tasks in the formative stages of a new business — and among the most challenging. So why wouldn’t you take as much time as necessary to find all the A-players? … A small company depends on great people much more than a big company does.

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Knowledge Base Training Training Research 28

Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2016

In a recent report , the World Economic Forum identified high skills instability across all job categories and acknowledged that most businesses currently face major recruitment challenges and talent shortages. as several national nonprofit initiatives, such as EveryoneOn , are delivering training at the local level.

Accenture 34

Accenture Education Government Wireless 34

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 6, 2015

Recently, Alvarez & Marsal gained more territory in Europe and Asia by recruiting a new country head in Greece and by opening an office in Seoul, South Korea. ALVAREZ & MARSAL INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. ALVAREZ & MARSAL ORGANIZATION. Practice Areas. Performance Improvement. Turnaround and Restructuring. Industries.

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Interviews Culture Turnaround Case Interview 100

Confessions of a Consultant

JANUARY 27, 2019

There were a number of constraints… Simple Roadmap : The project had both organisation and HR elements, including strategy creation, revising the structure, recruitment impacts and so on. Insurance Company Example: ‘How can we ensure that the brokers are really happy with our service?’ Growth: Size matters!

Culture 40

Culture Insurance Insurance Engineering 40

Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2018

A study of health insurance claims among World Bank staff and consultants found that travelers had significantly higher claims than their non-traveling peers for all conditions considered, including chronic diseases such as asthma and back disorders. Our results are backed up by several other pieces of research.

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Travel Data Hotels Exercises 29

Management Consulted

JULY 2, 2017

The industry focus in Boston is on Financial Services, Wealth & Asset Management, Banking & Capital Markets, Insurance, Technology, Life Sciences & Health, and Private Equity. is quite inconsistent – it’s a huge name at Dartmouth (recruiting for Boston and New York) but is almost unknown at Stanford.

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Oliver Wyman Mercer Consulting Deloitte 72

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Every year, cadets spend about four months training in teams to prepare for a two-day competition of simulated war games. During the training period we sent them several surveys. Our first study was of cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point. The average age of our participants was 39, they had an average of 15.6

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Research Study Survey Groups 28

Management Consulted

MARCH 29, 2015

And how was the actual recruitment process for you? One of the guys does mostly investment banking, and he gave me a tough insurance case. I really didn’t know what to expect on my first day, even after I went through the on-boarding and training process. Were you expecting to get hired? That was rough.

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McKinsey Interviews Case Interview Consulting 100

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

You are trained on how to get into a CEO’s mindset within a lifetime of an engagement while being an outsider. There I advised only insurance companies’ business models – it is a different type of consulting, yet invariably an enriching learning experience. ’ As you may guess, I enjoyed my work in Asia and learned a lot.

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Consulting Case Interview Interviews Engineering 204

Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2017

Funded largely with revenue from general taxation and National Insurance contributions, only 1.2% One of the reasons for the current lackluster response is that the NHS is increasingly struggling to recruit and retain its health workforce. APR on all pre-existing student loan agreements), malpractice insurance, and exam fees.

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Recruiting Recruitment Training Training 28

Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2017

Major organizational changes, covering everything from recruiting and branding to regulatory approvals and marketing, happened in rapid succession, with a hard deadline of 12 months to get it all done for the IPO — and 18 months from the IPO until our full separation from GE. Would employees have the same number of vacation days?

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Management Change Management Culture Leadership 39

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

In an interview, Peter Harmer, CEO of Insurance Australia Group, emphasized the need for managers who foster collaborative creativity in the digital enterprise: “We need people who can actually layer ideas on ideas. Develop training and recruitment strategies for creativity, collaboration, empathy, and judgment skills.

Management 28

Management Survey Report Development 28

Harvard Business

JULY 23, 2018

Companies and governments increasingly rely upon algorithms to make decisions that affect people’s lives and livelihoods – from loan approvals, to recruiting, legal sentencing, and college admissions. The algorithms logic is mostly learned from training data and is rarely reflected in its source code.

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Intellectual Property System Data Examples 28

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Those divisions are IT Services, Global Business Services, Outsourcing Services, Training, and Additional Services – because it’s super clear to have an amorphous Additional Services bucket, right? IBM provides all the broad-business based training and offers some more specialized training subjects like sales training, if desired.

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IBM GBS Interviews Consulting Case Interview 203

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 9, 2016

This bias shows up in numerous aspects of our lives, including algorithms used for electronic discovery, teacher evaluations, car insurance, credit score rankings, and university admissions. They are typically trained to learn from past successes, which may embed existing bias. At their core, algorithms mimic human decision making.

Resumes 28

Resumes Recruiting Recruitment Software 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

To be sure, anonymized insurance-claims data and electronic health record (EHR) data has been accessed and analyzed for many years. Historically, the pharmaceutical industry has recruited SAS programmers who have executed well-defined analyses of clinical trials in a standardized, efficient manner.

Data 28

Data Pharmaceuticals Biotechnology Methodologies 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2017

Primary care delivery faces additional challenges for scaling because it operates on thin margins, often is not highly valued by patients, and has difficulty attracting trained providers. For instance, after completing medical training in the U.S. Insight Center. The Leading Edge of Health Care.

Development 28

Development Operations Education Efficiency 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 15, 2018

With the support of partners, they design, train, and fine-tune AI solutions for the company. This is the case at German insurance company Allianz, which funded Europe’s first global AI equity fund to position itself as a “pioneer in AI investments.” Supporting business units in applying AI technology.

Data 28

Data Tools Education Talent 28

MishTalk

JANUARY 26, 2015

The cost of finding, recruiting, training and keeping drivers is steadily rising,” Shevell says. Tires, insurance, terminal costs have all risen substantially. Equipment costs are through the roof. A new Class 8 truck costs about $135,000. Plus, we’re hit with rising health care costs for our people.”

Education 28

Education Hotels Transportation Industry 28

Confessions of a Consultant

MAY 28, 2017

The banks and insurance companies later ‘aped’ this structure and essentially became the white-collar factories that they are today. While the cost of labour turnover is seldom measured – substantial recruitment and training lead times represent an enormous cost in some businesses.

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Exercises System Banking Talent 40

Harvard Business

MAY 29, 2018

The first was independent baby-boomer physicians — particularly those in primary care — found themselves unable to recruit new partners. A third apparent motivation was to corner the local physician market in order to obtain more favorable rates from health insurers. Pursue reality-based contracts with insurers.

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Enterprise Insurance Insurance System 28

Management Consulted

APRIL 6, 2014

You will have specifically designated training to increase your technical skills, both at the beginning of your tenure and throughout. You will be on a team focused on real company assignments and needs, but many of the training programs will not be real-time (PwC will have worked for the client in the past, for example). Technology.

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PricewaterhouseCoopers IBM GBS Case Interview Interviews 221