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IMC USA Recognizes Its Members on International Consultants Day June 6, 2019

IMC USA

We wish our members a very Happy International Consultants Day as we honor their ethical and professional representation of the management consulting profession,” states Certified Management Consultant Constantinos A. He is IMC USA’s Lead Delegate to ICMCI and a 2017 recipient of the IMC USA Distinguished Service Award. Stavropoulos.

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Incentives vs Integrity: The BCG Bribery Scandal

Tom Spencer

Between 2011 and 2017, Boston Consulting Group ( BCG ), which is one of the world’s leading management consulting firms, engaged in high level bribery in Angola. BCG has admitted to paying millions in bribes to secure contracts with the Angolan Ministry of Economy and the National Bank of Angola.

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Stop Setting Goals You Don’t Actually Care About

Harvard Business

To begin thinking of your own professional development goals, start by asking yourself three questions: If I could accomplish just one major professional development goal in 2017, what would it be? Creating an Ethical Workplace. When I think about working on this goal, do I get excited about the process as well as the outcome?

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Recruiters You Should Meet to Staff for Success

Harmonious Workplaces

Retained search firms and recruiters play a crucial role in attracting and retaining human capital in organizations across cultures (Allen & Vardaman, 2017). However, I have found that the best results came from working with highly motivated, strongly competent, and extremely ethical recruiters who own and operate small businesses.

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Uber Is Finally Realizing HR Isn’t Just for Recruiting

Harvard Business

Today Uber is no startup, with 11,000 employees, not including its drivers, and a 2017 market value at IPO that is estimated as $28–$70 billion. As my colleague Ian Ziskin has noted, an entrepreneurial, agile, and performance-driven culture is not a substitute for an ethical, courageous, and people-friendly culture.

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Cybersecurity Has a Serious Talent Shortage. Here’s How to Fix It

Harvard Business

Some characteristics of a successful cybersecurity professional simply can’t be taught in a classroom: unbridled curiosity, passion for problem solving, strong ethics, and an understanding of risks. schools and 300 industry partners, with the goal of expanding to 80+ schools in 2017. The P-TECH model has expanded to over 50 U.S.

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The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies, 2016

Harvard Business

We break down empathy into categories: ethics, leadership, company culture, brand perception, and public messaging through social media. Additional geographies, including Africa, will be added in the next report, in March 2017. Empathy, we found, is correlated with ethics, and any ethical failure can prove costly.

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