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Short blogging break plus preview of what’s coming up at Management Consulted

Management Consulted

Hi readers: I hate to pause the blog train, but for the next few days I will be traveling and enjoying the last moments of 2008. You’ll learn everything I know about recruiting for and working at the top businesses in the world. You can expect my posting to start again on Friday, January 2.

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

Management Consulted

He began by helping firms recruit competent executives, acquire new customers, and establish conducive office space. After 2 years, he recruited 2 friends from Chicago and formed the Business Research and Development Company with $500 borrowed from the bank. BOOZ & COMPANY INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. Intellectual integrity.

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Bridgespan Non-Profit Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

In 2008, Bridgespan redesigned its website in an attempt to provide better knowledge transfer. Many that serve clients with strategy come from organizations (like Bain or McKinsey) that offer excellent toolkit and skills training pre-Bridgespan; the training at Bridgespan is there, but not as thorough. BRIDGESPAN ORGANIZATION .

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Advisory Board Company Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

The firm also started growing rapidly through M&A, acquiring Crimson, an analytics, data, and business intelligence software provider focused on analytics related to physician performance, healthcare practice quality and cost management in 2008. THE ADVISORY BOARD COMPANY INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. We said it.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

You are trained on how to get into a CEO’s mindset within a lifetime of an engagement while being an outsider. I was impressed by consultants’ presentations, recruiting events and private conversations with alumni from one of the Big 3 consulting companies. At the end, we delivered to our client a great report and it helped him a lot.

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The Startups Most Likely to Succeed Have Technical Founders Who Quickly Hire Businesspeople

Harvard Business

Identifying, recruiting , and retaining the right employees are among the most important tasks in the formative stages of a new business — and among the most challenging. Established in 2008, the KfW/ZEW Start-Up Panel is a representative survey of German startups. — Steve Jobs.

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Now is the time to snag a boatload – not a busload, but a boatload — of great people

Brimstone Consulting

In an economic downturn, the top actions leaders typically take are to lay off employees and cut back on recruiting, company events, bonuses, and individual (e.g., computer skills) training. In fact, history shows us that leaders do not adhere to this advice. coaching) and functional (e.g.,

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