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Research: Stale Office Air Is Making You Less Productive

Harvard Business

How often do you consider the air quality in your office and how it affects employees and their productivity? Given these studies tying air quality to health, we wanted to see whether improved ventilation affects cognitive function, an indicator of worker productivity. In most buildings, managers can take action immediately.

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Consultant Ninja: Why PowerPoint is Bad: Management Consulting.

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. Go to [link] to see thousands of management consulting templates. Many managers think that complex issues can be shown on a single PowerPoint slide. Management Advies.

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A Survey of 1,700 Companies Reveals Common B2B Pricing Mistakes

Harvard Business

Top performers are more likely to: employ truly tailored pricing at the individual customer and product level. By contrast, more-advanced companies tailor their pricing carefully for each combination of customer and product, continually working to maximize total margin. the alternatives and competitive intensity in the industry.

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Reinvigorate Your Career by Taking the Right Kind of Risk

Harvard Business

Innovate a product or service from within your position. Craig Hatkoff, now a successful investor, philanthropist, and cofounder of the Tribeca Film Festival, was then fresh out of business school, working for Chemical Bank, and about to lose his job.

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How to Lose Your Best Employees

Harvard Business

After all, she’s super-productive, her work is flawless, and she always delivers on time. I’ve always liked mentoring and coaching people, so I approached a senior executive about moving to a management track. When people can no longer grow in their jobs, they mail it in — leading to huge gaps in productivity.

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IBM Consulting Interviews: Navigating the IBM GBS Maze

Management Consulted

Recognizing client’s needs for help managing IT operations and resources, IBM Vice President Robert M. Eastman Kodak Company and IBM completed an agreement hiring IBM to design, build and manage a new state-of-the-art data center for Kodak in Rochester, NY under the brand name Integrated Systems Solutions (ISSC). Finance Risk.

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What follows after the Eureka Moment: Consulting for Innovation Start-ups

Tom Spencer

‘Technological innovation’ has recently become an ossified catch-all term not only in venture capital circles, but in management consultancy as well. Although start-ups are welcoming employers for newcomers of management consultancy, they face very specific problems, which you need to be prepared for. Start-up in the Plastics Industry.