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Research: When the Economy Is Good, Employers Demand Fewer Credentials

Harvard Business

Using a new database from Burning Glass Technologies containing 83 million online job postings between 2007 and 2014, across all U.S. For example, only 15% of physician assistant jobs required a Bachelor’s degree or higher in 2007. As a result, education and training programs need to be designed with this cyclicality in mind.

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Leading Management Principles of the World’s Top Shipbuilders

Epicflow

The capacity of HHI is superior to its competitors — a four-kilometer Ulsan shipyard with nine huge “Goliath Cranes,” 16,000 well-trained and experienced people in production, R&D, management, and administration, and the ability to manufacture any ship of any size with superb quality and the highest deadweight tonnage in the world.

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IBM Consulting Interviews: Navigating the IBM GBS Maze

Management Consulted

Those divisions are IT Services, Global Business Services, Outsourcing Services, Training, and Additional Services – because it’s super clear to have an amorphous Additional Services bucket, right? IBM provides all the broad-business based training and offers some more specialized training subjects like sales training, if desired.

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Why Companies Overlook Great Internal Candidates

Harvard Business

In July, for example, voluntary turnover reached a level not seen since the pre-recession days of 2007, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Companies are planning for attrition rather than training for retention. It’s true that workers today are more open to opportunity (and more equipped to find it) than in years past.

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Does It Pay to Hire Consultants? Evidence from the Bordeaux Wine Industry

Harvard Business

From 1963 to 2007, wines were made by Jean-Claude Berrouet, an in-house winemaker. When he retired, in 2007, his son Olivier took over as the in-house winemaker. For instance, the owners of Pétrus have never used winemaking consultants.

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Consultant Ninja: When "hedging" is just speculation (part 2.

Consultant Ninja

2) United appears to have done minimal hedging through 2006 & 2007, only launching on a massive hedging action in 2008. In other words, they got off the avgas variation train at a specific time; that itself, to me, is a speculative move.

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Brews, News and Booz & Company: Interview and Culture Insights

Management Consulted

Marc Gerencser, managing director, noted in 2007 that returning to being a private firm allowed Booz & Company to make long-range investments that they may not have otherwise been able to make. In 2007, they had 150,000 applicants apply to 1,033 open positions. Even 30 years later, staff and partners applauded the choice.