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What is consulting?
Tom Spencer
FEBRUARY 1, 2020
When people think of consultants, they tend to visualize professionally suited employees, degrees from the best schools, high pay-checks and fancy travel stories.
How to Generate More Revenue Without Working More Hours with Tony Signorelli: Podcast #23
Consulting Success
FEBRUARY 12, 2018
He read all that he could about new sales methodology and began differentiating what ideas were actually novel or distinct from all of those available. Increase your billable rates by becoming an educated expert, working your network, and avoiding one major (but common) mistake.
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Artificial Intelligence: It’s Current and Future Role in Healthcare (Part 2 of 2)
Tom Spencer
OCTOBER 20, 2018
Most notably, at the 2018 World Medical Innovation Forum , which focused on advancements in artificial intelligence, a number of notable healthcare faculty and thought leaders presented specific devices and treatment methodologies that are likely to be used in the healthcare industry.
Conversation with Partners in Performance
Tom Spencer
MARCH 22, 2015
Amanda: All new hires receive two weeks of training on the PIP consulting toolkit and methodologies within their first month of joining. Tom: What is the firm’s travel model? Potential candidates should expect heavy travel days.
Conversation with Cartesian
Tom Spencer
JUNE 28, 2015
Adam Fraser: At the business analyst level, you have the opportunity to engage with, and present to, clients and have quite a bit of client interaction, including traveling to client sites. Tom: What is the firm’s travel model? Some projects may require you to travel to another country and be on-site every day. However, the candidates are not fully judged on obtaining the correct answer, but rather the methodology with which they approach the scenario.
A.T. Kearney Interview & Culture
Management Consulted
JANUARY 18, 2015
Kearney boasts about its Fit Transformation™ methodology, designed specifically to align companies’ strategy, operating model, and people to bring lasting transformation. Transportation & Travel. You’ll start off learning about the necessary tools and methodologies the firm uses for their engagements, paired with information about A.T. Summer Associates are given the opportunity to travel as they will be stationed both at client sites and in the office.
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Fiscal Crisis in Chicago: Pensions 31% Funded, Moody's Downgrades Debt 3 Notches, Pension Liability is $61,000 Per Household; Mish's Proposed Solutions
MishTalk
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
Chicago Public Schools closed nearly 50 schools this year, forcing children and families to travel across gang lines. Under new Moody’s methodology, Chicago’s unfunded pension liabilities are at least $23 billion higher than what’s officially reported. Move over Detroit.
ZS Associates Firm Profile
Management Consulted
NOVEMBER 6, 2016
Travel & Transportation. Below are some of the skills they are looking for in interns: Familiarity with formal software development life-cycle (SDLC) methodology. ZS offers its employees many opportunities to travel to its international locations; however, be open to working nights and early US mornings with teams across cultures and geographies such as India. ZS ASSOCIATES. Welcome back!
Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York
Management Consulted
FEBRUARY 5, 2017
Interesting, the office in New York is very transient and has a hoteling system (so you don’t have an assigned desk) – so if you sign up for Deloitte NYC, be prepared to travel all the time. With HQ in New York, firm practices are based on the EVA methodology. This week, we bring you the Top 10 Consulting firms in New York – the power center of the world. How do we know New Yorkers think the universe revolves around them?
Zero-Based Budgeting Is Not a Wonder Diet for Companies
Harvard Business
JUNE 30, 2016
Rather, the most visible outcomes of many ZBB efforts are burdensome policies (such as travel cost restrictions) that fail to address the underlying fundamentals (such as who needs to travel, why, and when).
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Why consulting?
Management Consulted
OCTOBER 3, 2012
“I am competitive in nature and always give the best in whatever I do and my passions include photography, travelling and embracing new cultures and languages. The perks were fantastic – travel to new locations, work in different industries, client pays for the travel.
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Parthenon-EY Interviews and Culture
Management Consulted
JUNE 12, 2016
This makes sense, as Parthenon’s founders (and Parthenon-EY Senior Managing Director Bill Achtmeyer) are ex-Bain and the methodology and persona of the two firms are similar. Due to the firm’s private equity focus, you will be traveling less than you would at other strategy firms. PARTHENON-EY. A household name in the consulting world, Ernst & Young (EY) has gone through some dramatic changes in the past few years.
How We Nudged Employees to Embrace Flexible Work
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 3, 2017
We did this in partnership with Transport for NSW’s Travel Choices program, which works with businesses to identify ways to encourage more commuters to avoid traveling to work during peak hours. Using behavioral insights, and methodologies borrowed from behavioral sciences, you and your organization can test out simple behavioral tools to find what works for you. Chris Rogers/Getty Images.
The Value of the Owner to the Business’s Value
Martinka Consulting
OCTOBER 22, 2013
This on the days he was actually in town, not traveling around the country or to his place in Central America. A business’s value is a partially theoretical number based on proven and accepted methodologies and it’s called a valuation. Every so often I hear the statement, “the business is so well run you can hire a manager for $50-60,000 a year to keep it running.”
How Agile Teams Can Help Turnarounds Succeed
Harvard Business
JULY 2, 2018
All are putting that “hip” methodology to work in exactly the places where so many people have believed it was inappropriate. They reduced unnecessary work and process inefficiencies, proposing and then implementing everything from an overhaul of the firm’s IT infrastructure to a ban on business-class travel. Patrick Smith/Getty Images.
Do You Know What Your Company’s Data Is Worth?
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
Definitions for what constitutes EvD, and methodologies to calculate its value, remain in their infancy. Had the Delta ground stop lasted for a week, the burn rate would go well beyond refunds, travel vouchers, and other costs and begin eroding EvD. Accurately measuring enterprise value (EV) has never been more important or challenging.
More Universities Need to Teach Sales
Harvard Business
APRIL 26, 2016
paul garbett FOR HBR. For decades, Sales and Academia remained worlds apart and the business world did fine. But Sales is changing, Academia is out of touch, and this is bad for business and the academy.
Are You Accurately Measuring Your Company’s Digital Strength?
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 7, 2017
A full explanation of our methodology and the rigorous process of residualization that was required of our hedge fund clients can be found here.). Some, but not all, of this disparity is related to Southwest’s refusal to sell through online travel agencies such as Priceline and Orbitz. There are few business leaders around the world not thinking about digital transformation in some shape or form.
What Research Tells Us About How Women Are Treated at Work
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 27, 2017
The methodology: An analysis of email communication and meeting schedule data for hundreds of employees in one office over four months. The methodology: Career center questionnaires were completed by 355 incoming business school students (241 men and 114 women) regarding their job preferences (desired compensation, hours of work, and days per month of travel). The methodology: A study of more than 10,000 senior executives in the U.K.
What the Best Transformational Leaders Do
Harvard Business
MAY 8, 2017
The list includes a health care company that was once near bankruptcy (DaVita), a software firm whose stock price stagnated for a decade (Microsoft), a travel website that faced overwhelming competition (Priceline), a food giant that seemed to lose its focus (Danone), and a steel company that faced new pressure from lower-cost rivals (ThyssenKrupp). We always urge you to read the methodology carefully. Companies that claim to be “transforming” seem to be everywhere.
Why GE, Boeing, Lowe’s, and Walmart Are Directly Buying Health Care for Employees
Harvard Business
JUNE 8, 2017
HDP is a third-party administrator with expertise in the development and management of travel surgery programs, providing strategic and operational management of this program. ECEN provides employees of participating companies with 100% coverage for all travel and medical expenses at carefully selected healthcare systems; patients pay no out-of-pocket costs. Bundled payments in health care have gained favor because they can reduce costs and help improve outcomes.
How to Make a Great First Impression
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 12, 2016
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.” ” It could be a new assignment at work, upcoming travel, or a new product lineup. The saying “You only have one chance to make a first impression” holds true in many situations, from job interviews to sales calls.
The Most Attractive Cities to Move to for Work
Harvard Business
MARCH 6, 2017
Methodology The Global Cities 150 Index is based on data collected by AIRINC’s in-house survey team, which continuously researches the costs and living conditions of more than 400 cities around the world to evaluate international mobility for its clients. Put another way: greater financial freedom in a location could help ex-pats work around some lifestyle restrictions by offering more recreation, more travel, bigger and safer housing in better neighborhoods, and so on.
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