To Increase Diversity, U.S. Tech Companies Need to Follow the Talent
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 4, 2020
A state-by-state analysis of where companies should recruit — now that employees can work from anywhere.
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Analysis Group Interviews and Culture
Management Consulted
OCTOBER 4, 2015
ANALYSIS GROUP CONSULTING. Today, as we continue our firm profile series, we’ll be looking at Analysis Group. Founded in 1981, Analysis Group is one of the largest economic consulting firms in North America. KEY STATS FOR ANALYSIS GROUP. Analysis Group Website: www.analysisgroup.com . ANALYSIS GROUP HISTORY .
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Experienced Hire Recruiting in Consulting
Tom Spencer
JANUARY 8, 2022
Experienced hire recruitment can be a puzzling, confusing environment. Compared to on-campus recruits (undergraduates and MBA students), experienced hires confront much more irregular processes, prolonged timelines, and unclear standards. Experienced hires are anyone in the recruitment pipeline that are already in the workforce.
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What If Companies Managed People as Carefully as They Manage Money?
Harvard Business
MAY 24, 2017
In contrast, today’s scarcest resource is your human capital, as measured by the time, talent and energy of your workforce. Difference-making talent is also scarce. Finding, developing, and retaining this talent is hard — so much so that the business press refers to a “war” for talent. Monitor it.
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Why the Australian Defence Organization Is Recruiting Cyber Analysts on the Autism Spectrum
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 7, 2017
To help address it, ADO has, with the help of some innovative business firms, leapt to the forefront with a new approach to sourcing cybersecurity talent: “Dandelion programs.” If we adapt a different managerial approach , however, we can access superior talent. Insight Center. The Human Element of Cybersecurity.
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How to Evaluate a Job Candidate’s Critical Thinking Skills in an Interview
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
It focuses on generating more questions than answers, where the answers are not a stopping point but the beginning of further analysis. The Socratic method uses thought-provoking question-and-answer probing to promote learning. Hiring managers can apply this model to create a different dialogue with candidates in a modern-day organization.
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Fireside Chat – Consulting Recruiting at Target and Non-Target Universities
Tom Spencer
FEBRUARY 8, 2020
A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to sit down with another blog contributor to the SpencerTom community, Jason Oh, to share our experiences about the consulting recruiting process. How is recruiting done at your school? Jeff : There are many advantages of campus recruiting at a target school.
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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story
Management Consulted
AUGUST 1, 2013
When seeking new talent, Oliver Wyman’s consulting team says they are looking for employees who are driven, risky, and innovative. NERA, focused on microeconomic and macroeconomic analysis, ranked as the #1 economic consulting firm every year between 2009 and 2013 (stay tuned for an upcoming NERA profile).
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How to Use Employee Referrals Without Giving Up Workplace Diversity
Harvard Business
MARCH 15, 2018
In a tight talent market, it’s tempting for organizations to rely even more heavily on employee referrals to fill open positions, but a new study from PayScale shows that doing so could lead to pay inequities and a less-diverse workforce. Gather data on talent sourcing. Conduct a pay equity analysis of new hires by source.
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Why Even AI-Powered Factories Will Have Jobs for Humans
Harvard Business
AUGUST 8, 2018
The worker must also possess robotics and controls engineering skills, according to our analysis of Tesla’s recent recruiting efforts. Our analysis has uncovered that entirely new categories of jobs are being created. As such, many companies are trying to grow the talent they need in-house.
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Holiday Human-Capital Culling Could Cost
Harmonious Workplaces
DECEMBER 5, 2023
In-person, low-paying positions in retail, hospitality, restaurants, and healthcare remain in strong demand, though they may not attract highly skilled talent with college degrees or advanced credentials. They may also add weaknesses and threats to their SWOT analysis, which could impose heavy costs.
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Research: When Boards Broaden Their Definition of Diversity, Women and People of Color Lose Out
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 3, 2018
” Similarly, Korn Ferry, a global management consulting firm, urges firms to reorient their recruiting efforts to emphasize “diverse perspectives, experiences, and contributions.” Director and recruiter interviews confirm evidence procured from company disclosures. Among the largest U.S.
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6 Things Successful Women in STEM Have in Common
Harvard Business
APRIL 27, 2018
In prior research , we at the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that women leave STEM fields in droves: 52% of highly qualified women working for science, technology, or engineering companies leave their jobs. They meet with external contacts or stay in touch with recruiters and headhunters in order to stay relevant in their industry.
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How to Solve 3 Modern Cross-Cultural Leadership Challenges
Organizational Talent Consulting
JUNE 5, 2023
A competitive talent landscape, technological advances, and global population shifts are rapidly increasing cultural diversity in the workplace. Cross-Cultural Strategy #2: Recruit for Intercultural Competence Talent acquisition is a critical process for any leader and business. Environmental scanning. Scenario planning.
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Advisory Board Company Interviews and Culture
Management Consulted
MARCH 9, 2014
The firm also launched their Talent Development Division – The Advisory Board Academies – to address “the leadership gap in health care” In 2003, The Advisory Board began to branch out into business intelligence and analytics launching the business Compass in the process. Felsenthal), a Chief Talent Officer (Mary D.
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Two Powerful Ways Managers Can Curb Implicit Biases
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 1, 2018
” The problem is that, when hiring, evaluating, or promoting employees, we often measure people against our implicit assumptions of what talent looks like — our hidden “template of success.” Run a gap analysis. ” We often perceive being quickly promoted as an indicator of someone’s talent.
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How Companies Are Using Simulations, Competitions, and Analytics to Hire
Harvard Business
APRIL 22, 2016
Based on one recent analysis of the over 300 NFL prospects who participated in the Combine, only two of the top ten players with the strongest performance for their position went to nationally ranked schools. Contrast this model to the one that most companies use to source new talent. Competitions.
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How the Best Global Employers Convince Workers to Join and Stay
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 11, 2016
Companies spend a lot of time and money building strong brands to win over customers—but they often fall short when it comes to strengthening their employer reputation to win talent. If companies can’t attract, engage, and retain the right talent, they’re unlikely to achieve their business objectives.
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70 Access to Digital Technology Accelerates Global Gender Equality
Harvard Business
MAY 17, 2016
Our analysis found strong evidence that digital fluency is helping women gain employment and attain higher levels of education, and that it is increasingly important in helping women advance at work.
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120 How a Fast-Growing Startup Built Its Sales Team for Long-Term Success
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 4, 2017
.” The biggest problem with a short-term approach is that managers develop blind spots around crucial processes such as recruiting, hiring, and training and development. But ignoring talent processes and strategies can have unintended consequences and stall one’s scaling efforts. Recruiting. Talent matters.
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How a Fast-Growing Startup Built Its Sales Team for Long-Term Success
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 4, 2017
.” The biggest problem with a short-term approach is that managers develop blind spots around crucial processes such as recruiting, hiring, and training and development. But ignoring talent processes and strategies can have unintended consequences and stall one’s scaling efforts. Recruiting. Talent matters.
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73 A Guide to Finding and Hiring the Best Contractors
Harvard Business
JULY 17, 2017
The rise of — and demand for — contractors is starting to rewrite the rules of talent. Contractor status was determined through member-supplied position titles and based on profile and behavioral analysis. Twenty to thirty percent of the workforce in the U.S. Design competitive compensation.
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To Better Train Workers, Figure Out Where They Struggle
Harvard Business
JUNE 30, 2017
The metrics we track include: productivity, cost savings in recruitment and training, quality, retention, and speed to promotion. It has trained and placed 11,000 graduates into entry-level jobs in four sectors: health care, tech, retail/sales, and skilled trades. These metrics can be converted into an estimate of ROI for the employer.
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135 Management Consulting Salary Guide for 2019
CaseInterview.com
MARCH 5, 2019
Junior consultants (recent college or MBA programs) fuel the collection and analysis of data. Some consulting firms recruit individuals quite early. Here are some of the top MBA programs that consulting firms recruit from, and the first-year consulting salary figures associated with these MBA programs. rawpixel.
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81 A Study of Hospitals Found That Outsider CEOs Make Their Organizations More Productive in the Long Run
Harvard Business
MAY 8, 2018
One of the most important and challenging decisions faced by corporate directors is whether to promote a new CEO from within or to hire new talent when a CEO leaves the company. To conduct the analysis, we identified 490 hospital CEO succession events. Lee Powers/Getty Images. Both have advantages. This ticked our second box.
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Do you think culture and collaboration require an office? Think Again
Brimstone Consulting
AUGUST 16, 2021
Tsipursky cautions that these biases are causing leaders to “fall victim to mental oversight,” and “doing what they feel comfortable with, even if it devastates employee morale, engagement, and productivity; seriously undercuts retention and recruitment; and harms diversity and inclusion. Rob Cross, Edward A.
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97 A Commercial Pilot’s 2-Year Plan to Break into Consulting
Management Consulted
SEPTEMBER 24, 2014
So I started searching for programs that consulting firms recruit from. Georgia Tech is a program that two firms recruit from that I would be interested in. And a host of others, like North Highlands, Deloitte, and some other places recruit from there as well. One is Bain, and the other is McKinsey. Let’s see here.
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125 Study: A CEO’s Decision Making Is Shaped by Whether Their Parents Were Immigrants
Harvard Business
MARCH 28, 2018
We replicated our analysis for the Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) of each bank and other members of the top management team, but we did not find a relationship between their cultural heritage and firm performance. This superior firm performance was strongest for second-generation CEOs, and the effect weakened with each later generation.
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The Promise and Challenge of Big Data for Pharma
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 29, 2016
For the industry, the biggest challenge by far has been talent: upgrading skill sets from those sufficient to analyze relatively small amounts of clinical trial data to those required to gain insights from the vast amount of real-world data, including unstructured data such as physicians’ notes, scans and images, and pathology reports.
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How to Become a Coach or Consultant After You Retire
Harvard Business
MAY 12, 2017
Do a skills analysis. Start recruiting clients. All of that is a moot point until you have actual clients, so recruiting them should be your first priority. that your retirement and new career might entail. Over the years you’ve probably become an expert in your field. ” Prepare your marketing.
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94 When to Stick with Something — and When to Quit
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 28, 2018
They have found the capacity to stick to a task — particular when faced with difficulties – is a crucial factor in explaining the success of everyone from kids in the national spelling bee to recruits at West Point to Ivy league undergraduates. Other research challenges these findings, however.
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What We Learned from Improving Diversity Rates at Pinterest
Harvard Business
JULY 11, 2017
The goal was based on a legal analysis of the current workforce, industry graduate rates, and co-founders Ben Silbermann and Evan Sharp’s desire to push far beyond the status quo after two years of flat data. Perhaps the most immediate impact was on our recruiters, who faced new sourcing and relationship challenges. referrals).
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Why consulting?
Management Consulted
OCTOBER 3, 2012
Shortly after this, the junior enterprise organized a recruitment fair in which I had the chance to talk to major consulting companies about their career opportunities, the kind of projects they worked on and what their daily activities were. At the end, we delivered to our client a great report and it helped him a lot. ” Pure humor.
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204 FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture
Management Consulted
FEBRUARY 15, 2015
As consulting firms go, FTI Consulting is a newcomer – but at just over 30 years old, the firm has made impressive strides to become one of the most respected name in legal analysis and data-driven research to support major initiatives for law firms, banks and the majority of the Fortune 500. Internships. Exit Opportunities.
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Robots and Automation May Not Take Your Desk Job After All
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 22, 2016
Jobvite’s Recruiter Nation Report also says that just 10% of recruiters anticipate automating some jobs in the next 2–3 years (compared to 2015’s 25%). But while computers can do the rote analysis, even they have limits. But it turns out that those actually in charge of hiring aren’t there yet.
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70 Leading Effectively When You Inherit a Mess
Harvard Business
AUGUST 7, 2017
Recruited from outside the organization, she faced multiple problems: The business was losing money, costs were bloated, customer loyalty was fading, and key talent was defecting. The consistent data from each analysis allowed for more-confident priority setting. Juan Díaz-Faes for HBR.
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How “Neutral” Layoffs Disproportionately Affect Women and Minorities
Harvard Business
JULY 26, 2016
But my analysis shows that because companies rely heavily on position and tenure to make those calls, they wipe out most or all of the gains they’ve made in diversity. But that method gets rid of strong employees, often people the company worked hard to recruit in the first place. Here’s how that plays out.
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How to Become a Better Mentor
Tom Spencer
JUNE 13, 2020
When I was recruiting, my most memorable interaction with a mentor was when he referred me to other people he knew in his network. Recruiting is tough, regardless of profession or industry. Recruiting is tough, regardless of profession or industry. Empower and motivate your mentees. Image: Pexels.
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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 13, 2017
Specifically, our analysis found that the net benefits to ranchers ranged from $18 million to $34 million (12% to 23% of revenues) in net present value projected over 10 years. We chose Brazil’s beef industry as the location of our case study , both for the size and complexity of the industry and for its impact on the planet.
Ensuring Good Performance: How Consultancies Keep Their Employees Motivated
Tom Spencer
AUGUST 11, 2018
Since a typical project only runs for a few weeks or months, variety is also given – each problem is different from the previous one and especially the younger consultants are encouraged to work on a variety of tasks, ranging from client interviews and qualitative research to model building and financial analysis.
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Top 10 Consulting Firms in Boston
Management Consulted
JULY 2, 2017
is quite inconsistent – it’s a huge name at Dartmouth (recruiting for Boston and New York) but is almost unknown at Stanford. Analysis Group, Inc. Narcissistic people are a big no-no here. Interestingly, the brand presence of Oliver Wyman across the U.S. Some good news? Oliver Wyman Boston is collegial and fast-paced.
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Automotive Industry 2022: Overcoming Project Challenges
Epicflow
JANUARY 21, 2022
Talent deficiency . Read more: How to Handle the Issue of Slow Recruitment with Resource Management Techniques. What-If Analysis makes it possible to predict outcomes of project environment changes based on the real-time information. This means that financial resources allocated for projects can be limited. .
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130 Define Success Profiles for Key Jobs – The Top 7 Steps
LSA Global
JULY 8, 2024
The inability to define success profiles for key jobs makes it difficult to align top talent with strategic priorities and drive peak performance. Sadly, culture alignment is the most common step for leaders to skip during talent management projects. strategic clarity ) and how you want to make the journey together (i.e.,
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