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The Right Way to Spend Your Innovation Budget

Harvard Business

Most innovation investments, such as product improvement, technological innovation, and research and development (R&D) traditionally aim at strengthening the innovation capacity of the organization. Nokia did have resources to develop a new operating system, but chose to stick with Symbian.

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How to Increase Your Influence at Work

Harvard Business

Develop expertise. This won’t happen overnight, but you can take steps to develop business-critical expertise and knowhow. Take steps to develop expertise by attending conferences or taking on a leadership role in a professional organization. Make it clear to your colleagues that you value their opinions.

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Advisory Board Company Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

As we worked with clients who have been granted positions at this firm, we’ve developed some interesting perspectives on this company. Physician manpower planning and medical staff development. Talent Development. Is The Advisory Board Company is a good company for you to work for? Physician practice M &A. Labor cost.

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IBM Consulting Interviews: Navigating the IBM GBS Maze

Management Consulted

Revenue: $20B+ (2011). IBM was founded in 1911 and has a rich history of ingenuity, deep convictions, premier research and development, and trend setting. IBM’s premier internship program for students pursuing software development and MBA degrees (but focused on those with technical backgrounds). Locations: 170 countries.

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Good Management Predicts a Firm’s Success Better Than IT, R&D, or Even Employee Skills

Harvard Business

As Chad Syverson at the University of Chicago wryly noted in his 2011 round-up of the evidence on what drives productivity : “…no potential driver of productivity differences has seen a higher ratio of speculation to actual empirical study” than management.

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9 Out of 10 People Are Willing to Earn Less Money to Do More-Meaningful Work

Harvard Business

“Meaning is the new money, an HBR article argued in 2011. A case study of entry-level steel mill workers found that when management instituted policies to take advantage of workers’ specialized knowledge and creative operational solutions, production uptime increased by 3.5%, resulting in a $1.2M

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IMS Consulting Group (IMS Health) Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

After having provided consulting services for their clients under the IMS Health umbrella for a while, it was high time for them to segment the consultancy services out into a different arm – thus IMS Consulting Group was born in 2011. Business development and licensing. Market development strategies. Decision analysis.

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