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Evidence That Minorities Perform Worse Under Biased Managers

Harvard Business

When identical resumes — one with the name Emily and one with the name Lakisha, for example — are sent to job openings, Emily’s resume gets substantially more callbacks. In other words, managers’ biases can become self-fulfilling prophecies.

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4 Ways to Develop Practical Business Understanding for Consulting

Management Consulted

A prospective management consultant without basic business understanding is like a camera tripod with 2 legs — it just won’t work out for you. Here are a couple that we’d recommend — The Wall Street Journal , Harvard Business Review , Business Week , Fortune , and The Economist. management consulting'

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From STEM PhD to Federal Consulting: An Interview with Josh

Management Consulted

Once I graduated with my Bachelor’s, I was a financial analyst by day and managed a bar a few nights per week. As luck would have it, I was able to take an ownership role at the bar I was managing. In this job I managed investigator initiated clinical trials, scientific messaging and key opinion leader development.

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How Research Says to Avoid Bad Sales Hires

LSA Global

The problem with hiring salespeople is the very fact that they’re salespeople – they are good at persuading sales managers in job interviews that they can do things they can’t. The Results of Hiring Too Fast Too often sales managers end up hiring unqualified or unsuitable candidates that they have to replace within a few months.

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Options for Post Consulting Careers

CaseInterview.com

I imagine someone interested in product/marketing management is better off going into industry. Or are clients unhappy because your products stink? Or are retail partners selling the product in such a way that is somehow incomplete? Work in product management. Ran a product management group at Paypal.

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Top 5 Consulting Resume Mistakes by Ph.D’s, Postdocs, and Other Advanced Degree Holders

Management Consulted

5 Resume Mistakes Advanced Degree Holders Should Avoid At All Costs. All power to you for your impressive brain, but all those brains don’t mean your resume is good. But if you’re one of the chosen few who can solve a Rubik’s Cube in 6 seconds, should you make it a featured section of your resume?

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Why Write and Publish Business Articles? For 5 Good Reasons!

Emerson Consulting Group

In a world filled with tweets, ever-breaking news, a thousand TV channels and podcasts galore, is there any point to toiling away at an article, then seeking a journal or magazine willing to publish it? From there, the production stage of publishing a book will complete the job, e.g., editing, cover design, printing, etc.

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