Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. As the COO made another well-deserved toast to Anne, Aliyah thought back to her interviews with Ed and Molly. Meeting Ed Yu. “No problem,” she said. “Of course.”

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The Fearless Marketer

MARCH 19, 2018

By proprietary methodologies. When you have a different and more effective way of getting results, you stand apart from all of those using older methodologies. Good, in-depth testimonials and case studies prove that you not only produce great results for your clients but are also wonderful to work with.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Question: I recently completed six interviews with BCG and am about to receive my offer to join them as a Project Lead. I found your case study videos very useful, as is the one-page framework handout, to prepare me for the interviews. It's a good trade.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

As we were looking through your responses, we realized you were answering as if you were in an interview – and that’s smart. These days, it pays to practice being in “interview mode” so you’re ready for the real thing – whether it’s networking with a neighbor at Starbucks or sitting in the hot seat.

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Clarity Consultants

MAY 26, 2023

Typically this is done through interviews and observation. That’s why, according to a study done by Insivia , 94% of marketers reported that video content has helped increase user understanding of a product or service. That’s to say that there is no one-size-fits-all approach. Every business is unique and has its own set of problems.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

We chose Brazil’s beef industry as the location of our case study , both for the size and complexity of the industry and for its impact on the planet. Nonetheless, the case study demonstrates that measuring the value of sustainable business can be done, and that sustainable business itself can be cost-effective.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

Some trace agile methodologies all the way back to Francis Bacon’s articulation of the scientific method in 1620. A more reasonable starting point might be the 1930s, when the physicist and statistician Walter Shewhart of Bell Labs began applying Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles to the improvement of products and processes.

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Comatch

JANUARY 19, 2022

When you hire a consultant, ask them about their methodology for solving problems. That being said, case studies, testimonials, and the names of past clients can all help you to see the bigger picture when it comes to a potential consultant. Further, ask them how they might go about teaching these processes to your internal team.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2017

However, in our recent study , published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we were able to analyze trends in discrimination by performing a meta-analysis from all available field experiments pertaining to one area: racial discrimination in hiring. For black applicants we found no change in hiring rates over time.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Recently, our team interviewed 40 founders and venture capitalists and conducted two experiments to uncover whether startups, compared to more mature firms, are more likely to be the victims of fraud. In our experiments, performed with Christian Schlereth at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management and Craig R.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 29, 2018

I studied arts and it was my initial formal training. That led to a ten-year longitudinal study of more than 2,700 leaders. Many consulting firms spend time writing about their methodologies or writing about their own case studies to self-promote. I was doing something very different early in my career.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 4, 2019

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. In classic case study analysis, you’d ask them, "What are the market segments?"

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Management Consulted

JULY 12, 2015

The emphasis they place on subjects like public health, social sciences and international studies is a great indication of that. ABT ASSOCIATES INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. If you pass the initial screening, you will have different in house interview days, possibly preceded by a phone interview depending on your location.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Sustaining Results Achieved Through the Lean Methodology. Several healthcare organizations interviewed emphasized their reliance on practices that define high-reliability organizations (HROs), especially as related to patient safety. Brandon Carrus, a senior partner at McKinsey & Co. HRO Principles and Patient Safety.

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Healthcare Efficiency Methodologies System 28

Management Consulted

JANUARY 17, 2016

Welcome back to our case interview frameworks series, giving you a step by step approach to solve any case that’s set before you. Case interview frameworks are used to open a case and to solve a case. In the last article, we gave you an introduction to case interview frameworks and laid out our 4 frameworks: Market Sizing.

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Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

A great deal of research — using methodologies such as resume studies and other models — has found that employer discrimination and prejudice plays a large role in creating this gap. Consumer discrimination in the labor market has not been extensively studied, but other research has borne this out.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

The saying “You only have one chance to make a first impression” holds true in many situations, from job interviews to sales calls. That advice is easier preached than executed, of course, so Clark suggests, “using the methodology of power posing [before the meeting] to tamp down your cortisol levels.”

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Harvard Business

MARCH 15, 2018

” In a two-part study, we observed that venture capitalists adopt markedly different stereotypical notions of female and male entrepreneurs during their decision-making processes. Before presenting our study, some context is helpful. This is one of the most common beliefs among the VCs we studied.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

I am writing to share a method I have been using for case interview preparation. As I listen to the LOMS cases, I stop the player at the end of each interviewer answer and record my own response, and then play it back. I did the exact same thing when preparing for live national television interviews I did for Fox.

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Case Interview Interviews McKinsey Methodologies 40

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

” Numerous studies show that diversity alone doesn’t drive inclusion. Yet in a one-on-one interview he confided that he saw no future for his ambitions at that firm. As noted diversity advocate Vernā Myers puts it, “Diversity is being invited to the party. Inclusion is being asked to dance.”

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Harvard Business

APRIL 4, 2016

One study I did as part of my work at Genesis Advisers and IMD, of HR leaders in Fortune 500 companies, showed that new hires represented on average one third of all transitions in the executive ranks in a typical year. The study also looked at relative levels of support for executives vs. more junior managers.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

holders – one studied integral programming algorithms and the other researched the use of higher math in meal planning in the military – it’s safe to say that this is a company founded on intelligence, excellence, and genius insight. ZS ASSOCIATES INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. ZS Associates Revenue : $1B.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2017

Godbout: I have yet to see the case study of massive change management of innovation where a group of people came in and, like a whirlwind, changed everyone’s thoughts and executed the whole thing themselves. So that is not a methodology to build buildings. It just doesn’t happen that way. We need a larger army.

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Harvard Business

MAY 26, 2017

as many applications as “Sandra Bauer” to receive the same number of callbacks for interviews. The first stage of the hiring process, when personnel managers select candidates for job interviews on the basis of written applications, allows a particularly clean-cut test of labor market opportunities.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

The event will allow project managers to earn PDUs, learn from expert speakers during the educational sessions, acquire new skills, master new technologies and methodologies, and network with peers. The program of the symposium includes case studies, lessons learned, academic research, actionable tips, and more.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 8, 2017

Since 2004, the global tax, auditing, and advisory firm Grant Thornton has surveyed people around the globe — this year it interviewed more than 5,000 people from 36 countries — to track the progress women are (or are not) making into senior leadership roles in their companies. Methodology. That hasn’t happened.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

But the most powerful drivers of change are not necessarily technological; radical improvements increasingly also come from applying new innovation methodologies like design thinking that focus on developing a deep understanding of patient experiences and invite patients and partners into co-creation processes. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 27, 2017

This year, some of our most viewed and shared stories were based on studies about women — and, more specifically, stories looking at differences in how men and women are treated, and behave, at work. A Study Used Sensors to Show That Men and Women Are Treated Differently at Work. Is it because they have fewer mentors?

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