Consultant Ninja

MARCH 23, 2009

It wasnt until 2001 that he admitted that he made up most of the data in the book. The investment bank still operates as FBR Capital Markets. One week before seeing FBRs stock price, I ran across a long story from Tom Peters of In Search of Excellence fame. Posted by Consultant Ninja. at 9:50 PM. Labels: Analysis , Consulting.

Oliver Wyman 100

Oliver Wyman Consulting Airlines McKinsey 100

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Clarke painted a picture of how computers would change our way of life by the year 2001. More than 80% of our work is done by teams of consultants and staff who operate out of their home offices. In his 1974 interview with ABC News , science fiction author Arthur C. The advisory firm we work for is one such company.

Management 130

Management Case Interview Leadership Interviews 130

Harvard Business

AUGUST 27, 2018

They operate as lean organizations, using cloud and internet-based infrastructure, and launch and distribute products more quickly than did firms that competed with factories, warehouses, inventories, and suppliers. Emerging digital firms compete with knowledge, strategy, and expert human capital, attacking even the largest established firms.

Company 128

Company Trends Finance Knowledge Base 128

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. The differences were dramatic. We calculate that U.S.

Management 70

Management Metrics Financial Company 70

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

In the 2001 recession, total sales for the S&P 500 declined by 9% from its pre-recession peak to its trough 18 months later—almost a year after the recession officially ended. Commercial operations groups tend to be early targets for cuts in a recession. Recessions catch many companies by surprise, with predictable results.

Sales 129

Sales B2B Tools Software 129

Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2018

This changed after Peter Dolan (Dartmouth, 1980) took the helm in 2001. ” The thinking on diversification later changed, turning into skepticism in the 1970s and outright criticism in the 1980s.

Research 132

Research Education Pharmaceuticals Finance 132

MishTalk

JUNE 21, 2014

He served as the 13th Secretary of Defense from 1975 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford, and as the 21st Secretary of Defense from 2001 to 2006 under President George W. What a riot. Thanks USAM, for seeing things as they are.

Operations 69

Operations Course Strategy& Strategy 69

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Microsoft ended the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). One of the strengths of visionary CEOs is that they build an executive staff of world-class operating executives (and that they unconsciously force out the world-class innovators among their direct reports).

Operations 70

Operations Productivity Software Talent 70

MishTalk

JULY 17, 2014

My guess still remains that the Ukrainians (unwittingly) repeated their Siberian Airlines stunt from 2001. Kiev operates 60 Buk 9K37s, according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Moscow operates 350, including a large number of more modern Buk 9K317s. Questions Du Jour Is Anyone Telling The Truth?

System 73

System Airlines Transportation Media 73

Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

Borrowing many of the HBR article’s key ideas and filling in specific operational practices, Sutherland created a new way of developing software; honoring the rugby imagery, he dubbed his approach “scrum.” Sutherland and other proponents of scrum were among them.

Agile 70

Agile Methodologies Software Development 70

Harmonious Workplaces

DECEMBER 27, 2023

However, I have found that the best results came from working with highly motivated, strongly competent, and extremely ethical recruiters who own and operate small businesses. Hire a Competent and Ethical Recruiter As I mentioned, since 2001, I have worked with various recruiters, executive search firms, and headhunters.

Recruiting 98

Recruiting Recruitment Meeting B2C 98

Management Consulted

MARCH 9, 2014

The Advisory Board Company is perhaps best known for its membership platform which provides information, research and tools specifically targeted to companies pursuing operational and strategic organization improvement in the U.S. Four years later, in 2001, The Advisory Board Company went public (NASDAQ: ABCO). Cost and operations.

Interviews 147

Interviews Culture Company Healthcare 147

Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

It is possible to further unpick the prism experiment to provide further insight on consultants and the way they operate in practice. It is possibly no coincidence that a number of consulting firms have referred to it, most recently in 2001, when a consulting firm called ‘Newton’ entered the market.

Consulting 88

Consulting Industry Operations Course 88

Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2017

I’ll fast-forward through the next decade, when Garvin, trained in operations, helped to answer the question much of America was obsessed with at the time: How Japanese automakers could make higher-quality, more-reliable cars than Americans, while charging less for them. .”

Management 108

Management Turnaround Engineering Benchmarking 108

Management Consulted

MAY 21, 2015

T-Mobile, an American operating entity of a German company, is the smallest big player in U.S. Spun off from parent Western Wireless on May 3, 1999, VoiceStream Wireless was purchased by Deutsche Telekom AG in 2001 for $35B and renamed T-Mobile USA, Inc. The company operates the fourth largest wireless network in the U.S.

Wireless 100

Wireless Culture Telecommunications Interviews 100

Women in Consulting

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

:: Since founding my consulting company in 2001, I’ve been serving Silicon Valley CEOs as an interim VP marketing. Either way, my clients are wise enough to realize that they’re operating under a handicap – likely losing both mindshare and market share — if this role is vacant. Anything less is going to produce less.

Marketing 70

Marketing Engineering B2B Guidelines 70

Organizational Talent Consulting

JUNE 26, 2023

An excellent virtual coach has the ability to: Operate the tools and functions of collaborative technology. 2001, February–March). Virtual Coach Attribute #3: Virtual Technology Competence Just like your fit matters, the technical competence of the coach moderates the effectiveness of virtual coaching. Newberry, B. Sass, M., &

Research 83

Research Handbook Journal Media 83

MishTalk

JANUARY 20, 2014

The city of Highland Park is operating on financial fumes and the pensions of its retirees could be in jeopardy if Fifth Third, one of the banks providing loans to the municipality, cuts of the money stream. As is typically the case, public union pensions are at the heart of the problem. The city has a $4 million electric bill it cannot pay.

Banking 75

Banking Finance Financial Report 75

MishTalk

JULY 17, 2014

According to Patrick Megahan, a research associate for military affairs at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, the Ukrainian military has been operating Buks in the area near the crash-site, raising the possibility that Ukrainian forces made a mistake. "It''s They Did Once Before : SA Flight 1812 Erroneously Downed by Ukraine in 2001.

System 71

System Airlines Policies Report 71

Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2016

But amid these changes, how many organizations have ever taken a close look at how performance reviews actually operate in their own workplace, over the long term? corporation between 2001 and 2007.

Exercises 70

Exercises Data Study Groups 70

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Take Anne Mulcahy, who stepped into the CEO role at Xerox in 2001, during a particularly tough time in the company’s history. He labeled the summit with his ultimate goal, “zero footprint,” and called his transformation effort “Mission Zero.”

Turnaround 70

Turnaround How To Survey Enterprise 70

Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

Back in 2001, Enron collapsed in spectacular fashion and Arthur Andersen , Enron’s auditor of 16 years, was implicated in the accounting scandal and ultimately went out of business. Less than half of PwC’s revenues now come from its assurance business, and consulting is one of its fastest growing operations.

BearingPoint 92

BearingPoint Talent Culture Industry 92

Harvard Business

JANUARY 11, 2017

Since 2001 LVMH has studied its life cycle carbon footprint, focusing on both the obvious energy hogs — its stores and distribution — and brand-specific issues, such as packaging in spirits and personal care. The sustainability and operating execs at LVMH talk openly about some of the challenges they face. ”

Energy 70

Energy Productivity Financial Retail 70

The Nonprofit Consultant

OCTOBER 26, 2006

Confidence in charitable organizations stands roughly 10 to 15 percent lower today than it did in the summer of 2001. Today, nonprofits need to operate like a business. First off, his comparison of confidence ratings is to "the summer of 2001" - before 9/11, and before the resulting Red Cross scandals.

Nonprofit 40

Nonprofit Comparison Education Efficiency 40

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

More than half that reached the top quintile in terms of economic profit generation between 2001 and 2005 had been knocked off their perch a decade later, in 2010-15. Indeed, it is much harder for this plethora of emerging-market firms in the outperforming countries to get to the top and then stay there.

Comparison 70

Comparison Research Productivity Policies 70

Harvard Business

MAY 28, 2018

It was 2001, and online advertising was at its nascent stage. After digesting all of this data, Albert identified and bought more than 6,400 keywords to improve performance across RedBalloon campaigns in the first 24 hours of operation. Not Albert. In fact, she’s challenging the notion of a “budget” altogether.

Retail 71

Retail Advertising Media Data 71

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 4, 2017

recessions (1991, 2001, 2007–09) have been jobless, meaning that employment was slow to rebound despite recovery in total economic output. production and operatives). Whether adjustments to new technology are gradual or sudden is important for policy and for our understanding of economic recoveries.

Trends 75

Trends Education Policies Research 75

Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

Ofek cites the example of Intel, which in 2001 introduced a 64-bit processor called Itanium, indicating that the product was markedly different than Xeon, its 32-bit predecessor. These types of processors power huge computer servers, which play vital roles in companies’ day-to-day operations. And then came Windows 7.

Education 85

Education Productivity How To Research 85

BCG

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Throughout most of the spring of 2001, while the US economy was spiraling into the post-dot-com recession, President George W. Incoming administrations historically have underestimated the demands of transition, from creating a roadmap for policy implementation to planning the operations and administration of the White House.

Case Study 40

Case Study Case Studies Policies Enterprise 40

Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

It’s worth noting that the companies and business units in my study were tracked between 2001 and 2007. One of JLL’s main clients, Bank of America [BofA], told JLL in 2001 that it no longer wanted to deal with each of JLL’s business units independently. Bagged salad would not have risen to what is now, a $2.5-billion-a-year

Education 91

Education Real Estate Research Company 91

Harvard Business

JULY 15, 2016

Before Mark Zuckerberg wrote a line of Facebook’s code, Kodak made a prescient purchase, acquiring a photo sharing site called Ofoto in 2001. Today the company has annual revenues above $20 billion, competes in healthcare and electronics operations and derives significant revenues from document solutions. It was so close.

Film 70

Film Balance Sheet Chemicals Engineering 70

Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

And yet without Box 2, organizations don’t truly transform; they persist in limiting ways of operating. ” His Box 2 speech had an impact within Elfun and its turnaround became a symbol of transformation for GE as a whole: “…Today [2001] Elfin has more than 42,000 members, including retirees.

Company 70

Company Culture Turnaround Productivity 70

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2017

When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated. Several years later, in 2001, I was working as chief of staff to then-Harvard University President Larry Summers when we unveiled Harvard’s Sustainability Principles. we have a responsibility to lead.

Energy 71

Energy Efficiency Policies Data 71

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

For example, Carbonite now operates several directly-owned or reseller-owned data centers deployed across Europe. That was in 2001. Executives of companies that resell cloud services told me that many of their end customers do not trust that American companies will be able to keep their data safe from prying government eyes.

Government 70

Government Intellectual Property Data Software 70

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This means all R&D is subtracted from operating income in the year it’s expended, while the payoffs to R&D don’t occur until future periods. Thus the further out the fruits of R&D, the less likely operating divisions are to conduct it. This is not a surprise.

Company 71

Company Research Trends Case Interview 71

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2017

So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. Increase operating margins to 18% (by cutting expenses). In June 2017 the board “retired” Immelt and promoted John Flannery to CEO. Since then Flannery has replaced Immelt’s vice chairs responsible for innovation. Comstock is out.

Balance Sheet 71

Balance Sheet Financial Journal Company 71

Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2016

. “The company charged wholesalers on average about $97 for a bottle of the 10-milligram pills, the smallest dosage, while the maximum strength, 80 milligrams, ran more than $630, according to 2001 sales data the company disclosed in litigation with the state of West Virginia.

Pharmaceuticals 70

Pharmaceuticals Sales Marketing Report 70