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Consultant Ninja: How Consultants Manage Frequent Flyer Miles.

Consultant Ninja

Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. How Consultants Manage Frequent Flyer Miles. February 11, 2011 at 8:30 AM. March 11, 2011 at 1:43 AM. March 14, 2011 at 2:57 AM. March 14, 2011 at 6:27 AM.

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Research: Can a More Detailed LinkedIn Profile Boost Your Salary?

Harvard Business

In this article, the authors explain how the intentional management of our online personas can have a positive and measurable connection to pay. To measure the effects of digital presence on compensation, they analyzed a sample of 1,741 executives who changed jobs between 2004 and 2011.

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The Challenge of Retaining Startup Talent After an Acquisition

Harvard Business

Census Bureau data from 1990 to 2011 that encompasses 230,000 acquired startup workers, the author researched these questions and discovered significantly higher turnover rates among acquired workers compared to regular hires. Why do so many startup employees leave, and how do startup acquisitions impact their careers?

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What If Companies Managed People as Carefully as They Manage Money?

Harvard Business

Today’s executives spend a lot of time managing the balance sheet, despite the fact that it doesn’t represent their company’s scarcest resource. Financial capital is abundant but carefully managed; human capital is scarce but not carefully managed. How can we manage human capital better? Measure it.

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2017 price changes at Management Consulted

Management Consulted

Thanks to your support and loyalty, Management Consulted is the #1 resource for consulting news and prep in the world. In 2011, Apple had just launched the iPhone 4S (feel old yet?). The post 2017 price changes at Management Consulted appeared first on Management Consulted. A lot has changed in the past five years.

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Book review: "Steady Work," by Karen Gaudet

Markovitz Consulting

Gaudet traces Starbucks’ budding lean journey with its “A Better Way” program in 2009, to its full flower with “Playbook” in 2011, and (sadly) to its eventual abandonment around 2015. Store managers naturally chose some best practices and ignored others. Critically, the Playbook was made by each manager at their specific store.

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Why The Best Hospitals Are Managed by Doctors

Harvard Business

A study published in 2011 examined CEOs in the top-100 best hospitals in USNWR in three key medical specialties: cancer, digestive disorders, and cardiovascular care. A simple question was asked: are hospitals ranked more highly when they are led by medically trained doctors or non-MD professional managers?