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Job Hub:T-Mobile Jobs and Culture

Management Consulted

T-Mobile, an American operating entity of a German company, is the smallest big player in U.S. T-Mobile’s history can be traced all the way back to the 1994 establishment of VoiceStream Wireless PCS as a subsidiary of Western Wireless Corporation. The company operates the fourth largest wireless network in the U.S.

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I'm a Rock Star.or just Insane. And this hotel doesn't have wireless.

The Crazy Lives of Consultants

Gotta be there for campus recruiting! I’m sitting in the hotel bar, and they don’t have wireless. At $250/night, wireless shouldn’t be that hard. Let’s not mention the fact that, if I was REALLY that cool, I’d be able to figure out how to use my crackberry as a laptop wireless connection. Interviews started at 9am sharp.

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Innovation Should Be a Top Priority for Boards. So Why Isn’t It?

Harvard Business

This isn’t all that surprising given the level of innovation activity in these sectors, but directors operating in similarly disrupted sectors should take note. Director Recruitment and Skills. Recruiting directors with technological expertise is one avenue through which boards can boost their innovative capabilities.

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The #1 Office Perk? Natural Light

Harvard Business

The fundamental health benefits of access to natural light are causing some firms to re-imagine their workspace and tout this as a recruiting tool. Airbnb has pushed the limits of designing its customer call center operation in Portland, Oregon. The benefits of these elements is is well recognized.

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An Ex-Consultant’s Jump into the Start Up World

Management Consulted

Jenny Rae interviewed him to hear about his journey from Yale, how he knew he wanted to be in management consulting, his recruitment process (and why he chose Altman Vilandrie over Oliver Wyman), his decision to leave management consulting and the challenges and rewards of entrepreneurship. *. So that was one.

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Even Life-Saving Innovations Don’t Sell Themselves

Harvard Business

While nonprofits, often starved for general operating funds, can’t match pharma’s marketing budgets, a recent Bridgespan study argues that it’s time they and their funders heed business findings on increasing noise in the marketplace and the need to make any new offering, even a life-saving one, stand out. A team of U.S.

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Success with the Internet of Things Requires More Than Chasing the Cool Factor

Harvard Business

With data analytics provided by Microsoft Azure and an informational infrastructure developed collaboratively by Industrial Scientific and Cisco, operators now have a dashboard to remotely monitor the people, equipment, and air quality in the mine in real time. The reason? These groups must work together. Not so cool.

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