What Makes a Company Great at Producing Leaders?
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 8, 2023
GE is well known as an “academy company” — a talent incubator that exports effective leaders to other organizations and even industries.
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Advisory Board Company Interviews and Culture
Management Consulted
MARCH 9, 2014
THE ADVISORY BOARD COMPANY. Today we continue our firm profile series with an in-depth review of The Advisory Board Company. The Advisory Board Company (NASDAQ: ABCO) is a professional services firm that offers resources to players who are mainly in the healthcare industry. KEY STATS FOR THE ADVISORY BOARD COMPANY.
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The Talent Pool Your Company Probably Overlooks
Harvard Business
JUNE 22, 2017
Global companies such as SAP and Hewlett Packard Enterprise are customizing their hiring and onboarding processes to enable highly-talented individuals, who might have eccentricities that keep them from passing a job interview — to succeed and deliver uncommon value.
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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. Have an upcoming Oliver Wyman interview? Mercer took after its parent company and began building and acquiring its own businesses. KEY STATS FOR OLIVER WYMAN. Website: [link].
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3 Ways Social Entrepreneurs Can Solve Their Talent Problem
Harvard Business
JUNE 29, 2016
The research, conducted with analytical support from McKinsey and funding from Omidyar Network, included interviews with 37 investors and 10 social enterprise leaders. The second most important problem, finding and keeping talented people (36%), becomes crucial as entrepreneurs secure some funding. — money.
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BearingPoint Interview Preparation – Mystery or History?
Management Consulted
JANUARY 20, 2014
BearingPoint Interview and Culture. Preparing for a BearingPoint interview? In January 2000, KPMG made the business unit a separate company. On October 2, 2002, after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was passed, the company rebranded their name to BearingPoint Inc., public company boards, management and public accounting firms.
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Bridgespan Non-Profit Consulting Interviews and Culture
Management Consulted
DECEMBER 7, 2014
. BRIDGESPAN INTERVIEWS & CULTURE . Founded in Boston, MA , and containing the heart and DNA of consulting industry giant Bain & Company, Bridgespan is the key non-profit consulting firm in today’s consulting industry. Bridgespan is the offspring of none other than consulting industry giant Bain & Company.
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Employee Engagement and Experience Strategies: Are They Aligned Enough?
LSA Global
DECEMBER 23, 2024
These two concepts, while interconnected, serve distinct purposes within a talent management strategy. Misalignment between these people strategies can lead to decreased productivity, higher turnover, and a misaligned company culture. Are you using data to make the right talent management decisions?
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The Best Companies Invest Aggressively in These 3 Areas
Harvard Business
JUNE 30, 2016
When it comes to investments, here’s a general truth: the larger a company gets, the smaller it thinks. The process is insidious, and companies must always be on the lookout for signs that it is setting in. The company was making big bets on its acquisitions, but it had many companies in the family and treated them all equally.
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132 How My Company Created an Apprenticeship Program to Help Diversify Tech
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 2, 2018
At Treehouse, an online school that helps companies hire developers and designers, we’re seeing the same problem. We were nowhere near those numbers, and I believed it was a moral and business imperative to change my company. We do not see people like us succeeding in those companies. Why would we apply for your jobs?”
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Infosys Consulting Interviews & Culture
Management Consulted
NOVEMBER 27, 2016
After seeing just how successful the GDM was, Pratt began talks with Deloitte’s strategy group in the hopes of taking the whole company in this direction. adding a consulting arm came at just the right time, as it let the company transition from being a custom software provider to an end-to-end solutions provider.
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Measuring the Long-Term Impact of L&D Initiatives on Business Performance
Clarity Consultants
FEBRUARY 9, 2025
Companies rely on Learning & Development (L&D) programs – especially eLearning – to stay competitive as industries change. L&D initiatives are essential for attracting and retaining top talent. Moreover, a strong L&D program enriches company culture by fostering a growth mindset and encouraging innovation.
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The Skills Your Employees Need to Work Effectively with AI
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
Interviews with company leaders and CEOs shed light on a counterintuitive answer: invest more in two important human skills. Leaders understand that the future will involve humans working with AI and feel immense pressure to “do something” to implement AI solutions.
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How Companies Can Ensure Maternity Leave Doesn’t Hurt Women’s Careers
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 11, 2018
Diane’s experience represents the experience of so many talented women in our research on the return to work after parental leave. Our research suggests that many firms are failing to support female talent making this return and that women are often left feeling frustrated and disappointed by it. Takeaways for Organizations.
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How to Find the Grit Passion for Winning at Business and Life: Interview with Dave Saliaris
Consulting Matters
APRIL 9, 2019
Interview Transcript: Betsy Jordyn: Well hey there, it's Betsy Jordyn and I am so excited to interview our latest Consultants Institute grad, Dave Saliaris, who has his own consulting group that he is launching officially. So welcome. I'm so glad to have you here and I'm so glad you're willing to take the time to talk to us.
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Managing Risks in Manufacturing Projects: Essentials and Best Practices
Epicflow
OCTOBER 4, 2024
Workforce shortage Manufacturing companies have been struggling with several ongoing workforce challenges: an aging workforce, a shortage of skilled professionals, competition for digital talent from other industries, persistent difficulties in retaining employees. is the most impacted by talent shortages [1].
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Investing in the Development of Young, Remote Employees
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Many young professionals started their careers during this tumultuous period, interviewing for and starting new jobs in remote environments. Smart companies are taking proactive steps to support this cohort’s professional development.
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This Pharma Company Stays Innovative by Doing Two Things
Harvard Business
MARCH 14, 2017
After extensive assessment, they settled on two initiatives: realigning incentives for employees and systematically introducing outside talent and practices. We believe these same measures can be successfully adopted and adapted by other companies in pharma and other sectors that seek to avert, or reverse, innovation stagnation.
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Towers Watson Consulting Interviews and Culture
Management Consulted
FEBRUARY 7, 2016
Wyatt established the Wyatt Company in 1946 as an actuarial consulting firm. Watson & Sons and the Wyatt Company formed a global alliance with the name Watson Wyatt Worldwide. . In 2010, these two storied companies joined forces to become Towers Watson. Talent Assessment. Talent Management. In the mid-1990s, R.
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Companies Can Address Talent Shortages by Partnering with Educators
Harvard Business
JUNE 4, 2018
” “Our goal,” it stated, “must be to develop the talents of all to their fullest.” The talents of all are not being developed to their fullest, and many U.S. million job openings , which companies are struggling to find the right talent to fill. industries face acute skills shortages.
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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture
Management Consulted
FEBRUARY 15, 2015
FTI CONSULTING INTERVIEWS & CULTURE. The tiny company brought major changes to the presentation of technical courtroom evidence using computer models built with a simple yet powerful goal in mind – to help jury members understand the technical merits in law cases. 1999: FTI Consulting began trading as a public company on the NYSE.
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How to Find the Grit Passion for Winning at Business and Life: Interview with Dave Saliaris
Consulting Matters
APRIL 9, 2019
Interview Transcript: Betsy Jordyn: Well hey there, it's Betsy Jordyn and I am so excited to interview our latest Consultants Institute grad, Dave Saliaris, who has his own consulting group that he is launching officially. So welcome. I'm so glad to have you here and I'm so glad you're willing to take the time to talk to us.
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5 Mistakes Companies Make About Growth Mindsets
Harvard Business
JULY 23, 2018
Hoping to learn how organizations put growth mindset to use in a rapidly changing work environment , the NeuroLeadership Institute has spent the last two months interviewing HR practitioners at more than 20 major organizations around the world. The first step is getting clear on how we define these things.
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How to Highlight Your Talents in a Job Interview Without Showing Off
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 28, 2017
In a perfect world, job interviewers would be able to gauge your talents with great accuracy, so that you wouldn’t need to engage in any form of boasting or self-promotion. One reason for this elusive nature of talent is that it is quite easy to fake, especially when people are deceived about their own talents.
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Why consulting?
Management Consulted
OCTOBER 3, 2012
As we were looking through your responses, we realized you were answering as if you were in an interview – and that’s smart. These days, it pays to practice being in “interview mode” so you’re ready for the real thing – whether it’s networking with a neighbor at Starbucks or sitting in the hot seat.
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Launching the Consulting Case Interview Bootcamp – Online
Management Consulted
MAY 5, 2015
What started off as an informal blog about management consulting with just a few readers became interview prep sessions, resume edits, videos on YouTube and Vimeo, books and the presentations we give at colleges around the world. The case interview is the great equalizer. And after all that, even with 1.5M Who is it for?
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100 Archstone Consulting Culture and Interview Tips
Management Consulted
MAY 22, 2016
Founded in 2003 by two former Deloitte partners, Archstone Consulting specializes in helping companies eliminate operational inefficiencies, cut costs and invest resulting savings back in to the growth of the firm. Although the firm lacks a long, storied history, it counts over 60 Fortune 500 companies as clients.
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Why the Millions We Spend on Employee Engagement Buy Us So Little
Harvard Business
MARCH 10, 2017
To understand this, I interviewed 150 psychologists, economists, and business leaders around the world. For instance, compared with the other companies I studied, those that invested most heavily in employee experience were included 28 times as often among Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, 11.5
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195 Analysis Group Interviews and Culture
Management Consulted
OCTOBER 4, 2015
On a day-to-day basis, you may could be helping a law firm critique their opponent’s expert analysis and developing financial models, or you may be working with government and corporate clients, helping them value companies, analyse markets and place for mergers and acquisitions. ANALYSIS GROUP INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. The good news?
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What Kind of Leadership Works Best at Your Company?
Harvard Business
MARCH 19, 2018
Inventive companies like Amazon and Tesla are constantly churning out new products and services, but there is something else that they, and other distinctive enterprises, are also in the business of producing: their version of leadership. That sense was redoubled when we started interviewing people we saw getting big things done here.
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135 Do You Really Know Why Employees Leave Your Company?
Harvard Business
JULY 31, 2019
Three ways to find out what exit interviews won’t tell you.
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132 What You Can Do to Improve Ethics at Your Company
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 29, 2016
In-depth interviews with these leaders provide some insight and solutions that can help us when we do face these quandaries. Companies can warp their own ethical climate by pushing too much change from the top, too quickly and too frequently. Companies become ethical one person at a time, one decision at a time. and the U.K.,
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Why You Should Interview People Who Turn Down a Job with Your Company
Harvard Business
AUGUST 1, 2016
Successfully competing for top talent involves both selling jobs to the best candidates and retaining the highest performing incumbents. Like “exit interviews” these “declined offer” interviews can yield a lot of information about your own organization as well as valuable data about your industry and competitors.
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70 How Some Companies Are Making Child Care Less Stressful for Their Employees
Harvard Business
APRIL 14, 2017
These are the very same cities where employers struggle to recruit and maintain skilled talent. As Enbar explained, “Most companies offer the option for child care Flex Spending Accounts to cover child care costs pre-tax. FSA accounts are a generous benefit. for infants through kindergarten.
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The Secret to Leading Organizational Change Is Empathy
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 20, 2018
I’m working with a CEO who’s in the midst of rethinking her company’s strategy so it can better meet customer demands and thrive financially. ” If you are a company leader hoping to undertake a successful organizational change, you need to make sure your team is onboard and motivated to help make it happen.
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133 How Johnson & Johnson and American Express Are Developing Young Leaders
Harvard Business
JUNE 8, 2018
workforce — and companies will increasingly grapple with how to accelerate the development of those individuals for leadership positions. When the research showed the growing premium that companies place on high-speed development, we decided to follow up with some of the study’s participants to hear more. American Express.
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141 Using Online Platforms to Boost Your Billings
Successful Independent Consulting
OCTOBER 22, 2017
“Catalant connects the world’s leading companies with over 40,000 experts and firms to meet on-demand business needs.” Formerly HourlyNerd, the company claims to have 650 client companies in 120 countries. The company prefers to pay on a 1099 tax basis, although some clients still insist on a W-2 payment to the consultant.
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150 How Companies Are Using Simulations, Competitions, and Analytics to Hire
Harvard Business
APRIL 22, 2016
Contrast this model to the one that most companies use to source new talent. Finally, they assess candidates using loosely structured interviews—which are often not calibrated with later performance, and are rife with opportunities for implicit and explicit bias.
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3 Common Hiring Mistakes New Managers Should Avoid
Harvard Business
JULY 4, 2018
The recruitment, interviewing, hiring, and on-boarding of even one new employee is a time-intensive process every manager takes seriously. But you’ll have trouble attracting talented people to a job that’s mostly boring work. It’s a waste of talent and experience. No one wants to hire the wrong person.
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135 Google’s Secret Formula for Management? Doing the Basics Well
Harvard Business
AUGUST 24, 2017
First, the company has nothing to lose by doing it. We found many reasons for weak adoption of basic things like target setting and talent management, but some of the most prominent ones include: A lack of awareness that better processes may be needed. Why would Google release its management processes? I see three reasons.
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195 Why Companies Should Add Class to Their Diversity Discussions
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
Employers who exclude class from discussions about diversity and inclusion risk losing or alienating talented employees. Many companies use some sort of “culture fit” criteria to judge whether a candidate would fit in. After all, your company’s success depends on everyone working together well.
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How to Find and Hire the Right Digital Talent for Your Organization - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DXC TECHNOLOGY
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 3, 2017
Talent wars will decide the winners and losers in the next decade. Getting access to great talent and unleashing motivation and discretionary effort are arguably the most important jobs for leaders in all areas of every business and government agency. To win the talent war, companies need to change. Accessing Talent.
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72 Building Trust Between Your Employees and Freelancers
Harvard Business
MARCH 15, 2017
More companies and nonprofits are turning to external experts, on a project or temporary basis, to tap into unique skill sets and experience that they otherwise might not be able to access, afford, or locate in their market. At the same time, more individuals are turning to freelancing as an alternative to full-time company employment.
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128 Two Powerful Ways Managers Can Curb Implicit Biases
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 1, 2018
The workshops companies invest in typically teach them to constantly check their thoughts for bias. ” 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.”
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