Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. Eliminating layers of management. One thing that distinguishes the typical nonprofit from a comparably-sized investor-owned hospital is the number of layers of management. PM Images/Getty Images. As the U.S.

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Management Consulted

MAY 13, 2015

Reintroducing Black Belt Supreme 2015 ! It’s easy – just sign up for Black Belt Deluxe by May 31, 2015 and email us that you want in on Black Belt Supreme. And up until last year, we’ve given them hours of DIY homework and answered questions 1:1. However, we’ve come up with a better way to prep.

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David A Fields

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

A consultant asked me the following question: How can I best manage project changes to avoid scope creep while pleasing clients? Text and images are © 2015 David A. What would your advice to this consultant be? How do you stay flexible, delight clients yet avoid costly scope creep? Please share your thoughts below.

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David A Fields

MAY 20, 2015

Will building relationships with managers win you business? Text and images are © 2015 David A. Should you always try to reach the CEO? minute video below shows you the three criteria that determine your target. Plus there’s a worksheet you can download using the button below the video.) Was this helpful?

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 21, 2016

And with over 89% of graduates in the Class of 2015 receiving job offers within the first 3 months of leaving, you’ll be primed to excel as soon as you graduate. In the Class of 2015, 96% of the LBS graduating class received offers, with an annual starting salary of over $113,000. No, we didn’t think so either.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 15, 2017

aren’t taught management skills in medical school. A popular way of bringing physicians up to speed is to elevate them into management roles and team them with business executives. Fair or not, they believe it’s harder for leaders without clinical expertise to see how cutting costs impacts quality of care.

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David A Fields

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

FYI, this builds on an article I published January, 2015.) If you’ve been in consulting a while, you’ve faced an unhappy client. It happens. How you handle the situation makes all the difference to your consulting practice. For instance, one of life’s little pleasures [ ]

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Halo Psych

JANUARY 13, 2025

Create FAST goals If you manage a team and are setting goals with each of them, then FAST goals might be helpful. An article from MIT Sloan Management Review suggests that while SMART goals can be helpful, they tend not to include ambitions within the framework, nor are they explicitly set up to encourage regular discussion about the goal.

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Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2016

Writing for the Harvard Business Review in 1988, Peter Drucker predicted that in 20 years the average organization would have slashed the number of management layers by half and shrunk its managerial ranks by two-thirds. Between 1983 and 2014, the number of managers, supervisors and support staff in the U.S. in 2001 to 16% in 2015.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 10, 2016

Welcome to the New Year Management Consulted Subscribers ! In 2015, consulting firms experienced an overall 12-18% increase in revenue. First, the compensation data is specifically for those in management consulting roles at each of the firms. Manager/Project Leader (2-3 years out of MBA): ~ $250-$350k.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 7, 2016

For a look at salaries at all the top firms, check out our latest Management Consulted salaries post. Senior management is generally quite accessible, and we have heard that project leaders and experienced consultants are overall very willing to provide feedback and advice. Anderson School of Management at UCLA. Target Schools.

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Rick Conlow

AUGUST 4, 2021

Consequently, 82% of managers fail and 85% of employees are sadly disengaged worldwide. Adam Grant, management researcher and professor at the Wharton School of Business, shows in his book Give and Take that servant leaders are more productive and more highly regarded by employees. Servant Leaders Outperform Others.

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Steve Shu Consulting

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

However, we can get a lot smarter about things and about how to manage companies that can better implement and navigate behavioral science. The book is not intended to explore detailed behavioral science principals as covered in other great books like Thinking, Fast and Slow (Kahneman 2013) or The Last Mile (Soman 2015).

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Since at least the time of Frederick Taylor, the father of “scientific management,” control has been central to corporate organization: Control of costs, of prices, of investment and—not least—of people. When a new project comes in, the manager does not devise a plan to complete it.

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Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 25, 2024

Strong manager-employee relationships through great leadership leads to positive outcomes After hearing so many people talking about the Apple TV show Ted Lasso and using it in the context of business leadership, I had to see what caused all the buzz. Workers with great managers tend to perform well and experience higher positive affect.

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Steve Shu Consulting

JANUARY 4, 2023

employers, advisors, platforms, systems providers, investment managers). Harvard Business Press, 2015. In the case of Secure Act 2.0, one way to look at this is in terms of an exogeneous event that constituents have to react to (e.g., However, there will also be those that look at this as an opportunity. ” (Working Paper 2022).

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2018

In 2015, we conducted a workforce analysis that revealed a significant shortage of women in leadership at our company. While this number was comparable to the percentage of women executives at Fortune 500 healthcare companies in 2015, it was not a number we were proud of. At Lilly, we have tackled this problem head-on.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department. Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Former employees have alleged a “soul-crushing” culture of fear and daily intimidation by managers, where they were pressured to reach extreme sales goals, some by breaking the law. Along with fixing the sales culture, the bank will have to address these critical management issues to prevent the next scandal.

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Successful Independent Consulting

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

January 2015: I email Joe via LinkedIn: Hello Joe, I see you've been in your new job 6 months already. July 2015: Joe changes jobs again, going back to a company where he worked years before. I have a need for an independent change management consultant in LA. He replies: Will do Liz. I certainly hope it’s going well!

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. The returns to society and the overall economy were equally impressive.

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Successful Independent Consulting

DECEMBER 30, 2017

First published January 12, 2015, it’s just as relevant today as it was then. Over the last 20 years I’ve interacted with probably a thousand management consultants, from local independent practitioners to global “big four” advisors. Manages expectations — Doesn’t over-commit. Photo © Vectomart via Dreamstime.com.

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Halo Psych

APRIL 7, 2025

Inheriting problems is a common issue to come up in coaching sessions and workshops with managers. Here are six things I advise managers in this situation to do: Check your assumptions and dont judge too quickly First things first, difficult people arent necessarily bad people. Often, we can get uncomfortable as managers with this.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 17, 2017

In 2015, around 40% of new PV installations were accompanied by a battery. Countries that manage to transition effectively to low-carbon generation technologies will be home to competitive energy solutions and manufacturing firms that are more resilient to energy shocks and weather disruptions. For example, in Germany, more than 1.5

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

It offered a competitive salary and extensive training, and it could point to several minority leaders in management. When I joined the company, my branch sales manager — someone I considered a field office general — was black, as were many of my instructors. representation in non-management professionals.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2016

The company manages a large, disaggregated workforce of “driver-partners” that deliver a relatively standardized experience to passengers, while simultaneously promoting drivers as independent entrepreneurs whose work is characterized by freedom, flexibility, and independence. Customers act as managers.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

Between 2015 and 2025, the 167 million workers entering the workforce will barely outpace the 166 million workers retiring (McKinsey & Company 2015). Demographics suggest the talent shortage will become more acute in the years ahead.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

All of the 500+ BCGers in New York will be moving to the spacious office location; a birdie told us that the consultants at the New York office helped design the office space for the new location because their current Managing Partner said “People should be the author of their own space” – classic BCG creativity at work. .

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Big Bang, a Korean pop (K-Pop) boy band, earned $44 million in 2015, making it among the highest paid in the industry. Three factors have made the difference: Strategic talent management. The main difference between K-Pop and the rest of the music industry is talent management. billion views on YouTube. The answer is no.

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Harvard Business

JULY 28, 2017

Compare that with 67% and 66% in 2016 and 2015, respectively. In 1980, 49 million workers had jobs that required average or above-average levels of training and education; in 2015, that number was at 83 million — a 68% increase, compared with a mere 31% increase in jobs that required below-average levels of education and training.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2016

Managers understand that clear-eyed analysis — both quantitative and qualitative — is the key to building a resilient business. In a 2015 report entitled “The Happiness Study” from Blackhawk Engagement Solutions, respondents ranked their jobs eighth out of a list of 12 contributors to overall happiness.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

military’s Joint Staff network, which the Washington Post reports was compromised in August 2015 via a measly phishing e-mail. There is one area where more training would pay off: for CEOs and other senior managers — the people who are least likely to take training or take it seriously. In 2015 , the U.S.

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Management Consulted

MAY 7, 2017

Vault recognized Bain as the “Best place to work in 2015” in the entire U.S. If you’re an engineer, designer, software architect, into strategic design, or just in general thrilled with the combination of IT consulting and Management consulting, BCG is after you! The firm was ranked No. Accenture , 560 Mission St.

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Harmonious Workplaces

DECEMBER 12, 2023

During the month of October, I had the pleasure of learning Organizational Development (OD) and Change Leadership from The Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance, 46 , 36–55. Putting the “Performance” Back in Performance Management.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 23, 2021

In a 2015 study, Deloitte reported that diverse companies earned 2.3 times higher cash flow per employee. And while diversity may just be a measure of success, inclusion is the ultimate goal. An inclusive workplace can improve the wellbeing of your employees, boost moral, and increase productivity.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 4, 2015

It’s not just their impressive credentials that sets employees apart; Analysis Group has a strong reputation as a great place to work and has scooped up a hatful of awards, including Glassdoor’s 2015 Employees’ Choice Award for small and medium businesses. Clark Kibler – Director of Product Management – MPARTICLE.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 9, 2015

OC&C Strategy Consultants Chief Executive: Chehab Wahby (Worldwide Managing Partner). Their head or “Worldwide Managing Partner” is Chehab Wahby. Each region is managed by the group of Partners elected to represent it; local ownership means local accountability and autonomy. Practice Areas . Internships .

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