Harvard Business

JULY 9, 2018

Finding digital talent is one of the biggest challenges facing companies today. These are the three biggest challenges we’ve seen: Integrating digital talent into the core business. However, one serious challenge that often arises with accelerators is how to integrate new talent into the core business.

Talent 118

Talent Recruitment Recruiting Boston Consulting Group 118

LSA Global

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Yet, our organizational alignment research found that the alignment of strategy and talent accounts for 60% of the difference between high and low performing companies. To be effective, talent management strategies must be anchored by clear, believable, and implementable business objectives that company teams understand and commit to execute.

Talent 48

Talent Training Training Culture 48

Clarity Consultants

OCTOBER 25, 2016

It's important to recognize that even though your team might seem mission critical, there will inevitably come a time when you have to dive into the talent pool and select some more eager workers to help you do business. Are you ready to onboard, nurture, and let the next generation of talent drive your success? The Clarity Difference.

Talent 149

Talent Trends Advertising Recruiting 149

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

FTI CONSULTING INTERVIEWS & CULTURE. FTI is a large firm with a good reputation and the opportunity to work with some extremely talented individuals who are experts in their field. FTI CONSULTING CULTURE. The company shares extensively about cultivating a culture of mentorship and growth.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

Talent Assessment. Talent Management. Out of the massive laundry list of HR and benefits options for any old large global firm to choose from, Towers Watson specializes in the Health and Group Benefits, Insurance Industry Consulting and Talent Management practice areas. TOWERS WATSON CONSULTING CULTURE.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 4, 2015

ANALYSIS GROUP CULTURE. Analysis Group’s firm culture is one of its strongest selling points. – always a good hallmark of any culture. Without an MBA or a PhD, you won’t get very far up the ladder, which, no matter how talented you are, is going to have a huge bearing on your compensation. Analysis Group Events.

Analysis 100

Analysis Groups Interviews Culture 100

Harvard Business

JULY 1, 2016

When ERGs organize events to solidify member bonds, they might consider content with wider appeal and open the event to other ERGs—to bridge, as well as bond. Finally, leaders themselves need to acknowledge that invisibility for talent at the intersections is due to blinders they wear, and resist putting aside.

Banking 132

Banking Talent Groups Case Interview 132

Management Consulted

MAY 22, 2016

The firm is small and internally loyal – poaching talent from one group to haul it over to another is frowned upon. ARCHSTONE CONSULTING CULTURE. However, while your co-workers may be industry experts and overall nice people, the office culture at Archstone Consulting is limited when compared to a firm like Bain.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

APRIL 7, 2016

If any story demonstrates how far employers will go in today’s fierce war for talent, the tale of Snapchat’s geofilter recruiting campaign is it. These days, I advise Fortune 500 executives to treat talent as they would customers: Understand their behavior, and design recruiting strategies that meet them where they are.

Recruitment 70

Recruitment Recruiting Talent Strategy 70

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. This fits hand in hand with their culture of treating new hires as potential Partners, offering them opportunities early on to engage in important projects. OLIVER WYMAN CULTURE.

Oliver Wyman 201

Oliver Wyman Interviews Mercer NERA Economic Consulting 201

Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

What were the critical events, and what lessons did they learn? Others wanted power in order to bring out the best in their teams and foster an inclusive culture. I had a very diverse team with a very different and strong culture. It was a huge lesson for me in that, as a leader, [I had to] to learn the culture.

Management 132

Management Leadership Culture Development 132

Harvard Business

MARCH 15, 2017

This blending of internal and external talent can have huge benefits to the organization — cost savings, access to new capabilities, speed and flexibility — but having a blended workforce creates special challenges that most managers aren’t prepared to deal with. the culture of the organization and its implications.

Talent 122

Talent Training Training Examples 122

Harvard Business

MARCH 19, 2018

Our research over the past decade shows that replicating the network of an established employee in a strong culture typically takes three to five years. Greg Pryor, head of talent at Workday, which partnered with us on this research, describes the difference as working to pull people into your network rather than pushing your way into theirs.

Energy 134

Energy Enterprise Conference Talent 134

Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2018

In our research on family leave policies and parenting culture in Scotland, we heard repeatedly that fathers felt worried and even embarrassed to use offered leave and flexible working entitlements. Workplace culture has to be such that fathers feel that they can use their benefits without harming their career prospects.

Culture 73

Culture Case Interview Policies Research 73

Harvard Business

MAY 29, 2017

They reflexively grasp for the culture lever, assuming the act of crafting and publishing a set of values actually has the power to do something. Values hold the power to drive meaningful differences in performance by shaping a culture, and when misused, can undermine performance with toxic force.

Culture 127

Culture Company Study Talent 127

Harmonious Workplaces

DECEMBER 27, 2023

These professionals stand out as some of the best I’ve met in the biz When I worked as an executive or a consultant advising C-suite leaders and business owners, many of them complained about their inability to attract and recruit talent. Many recruiting firms keep a good handle on their available talent inventory.

Recruitment 98

Recruitment Recruiting Meeting B2C 98

Management Consulted

JULY 2, 2017

They also have something called the Around the World Celebration, where they enjoy and celebrate food, drink and décor from countries and regions around the world – a festive event that helps welcome ambassadors and transfers visiting from other offices. The Boston office, not surprisingly, also has a very good local alumni network.

Oliver Wyman 72

Oliver Wyman Mercer Consulting Deloitte 72

Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2017

Unicorns and near-unicorns actually are much more prone to self-induced internal breakdowns than they are vulnerable to adverse events in the marketplace. Some 55% of executives cite the problem of revenue growing faster than talent: The company grows so quickly that it has trouble attracting the quality and amount of talent that it needs.

Talent 132

Talent Company Culture Bain 132

Organizational Talent Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Thriving company cultures are possible. They just require an actionable understanding of company culture and the ability of leaders to transform values into actions. Here is how you can set your company up with thriving culture. Why a positive company culture makes a big difference. Organizational culture is complex.

Culture 52

Culture Company Leadership Resources 52

LSA Global

JANUARY 13, 2025

Turning a group of talented individuals into a team with greater collective impact requires clarity, connection, and the ability to align everyone toward a shared vision. To be effective, talent management strategies must be strongly aligned with a clear, believable , and implementable business strategies.

Leadership 68

Leadership Talent Development Enterprise 68

Harvard Business

AUGUST 11, 2017

In phase 3, successful portfolio transformations require financial discipline that is not an event, but a pattern; strategic clarity that is not a direction, but a commitment; operational excellence that is not a tool, but a mindset. LCPs also increasingly participate in fund-raising meetings with deal teams.

Leadership 71

Leadership Talent Culture Turnaround 71

LSA Global

MAY 30, 2018

Let’s use sexual harassment training as an example to highlight Training Events versus Learning Solutions. To systemically prevent harassment, organizations need to shape a workplace culture in which everyone is treated fairly and with respect. Training Events versus Learning Solutions. Training Does Not Always Makes Sense.

Training 34

Training Training Talent Survey 34

Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2018

While biases can affect any of an organization’s talent decisions, they can be especially harmful when it comes to diversity and inclusion efforts. True to its name, distance bias describes the brain’s tendency to think people and events that are closer to us, in space or time, are more important than things that are further away.

How To 132

How To Journal Groups Sales 132

Comatch

JUNE 21, 2022

As the CTO at COMATCH, part of my job is to help our businesses formulate strategies to attract, find, and recruit top talent to fill high-skill digital positions. Various new trends and cultural shifts have led to a demand-heavy market. Recruiting digital talent is one of the main problem statements facing engineering managers.

Recruitment 40

Recruitment Recruiting Talent How To 40

Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Organizations, processes, and cultures will be integrated for weeks and months after the organizations come together, causing disruption and uncertainty. It makes the culture too risk averse and squelches momentum. These five behaviors, when used in concert with each other, create culture shifts that increase change agility.

Agile 136

Agile Efficiency Culture Trends 136

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. Telegraph confidence. They are also open about parts of their personal lives that connect them to others at the company.

Case Interview 136

Case Interview Recruiting Recruitment Engineering 136

Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2017

In coaching, while Eric focused on learning ways to motivate the talent on his team, he didn’t address deeper issues, like his perfectionism, that could hold him back in the long run. Nondefensiveness: whether they tended to accept personal responsibility for interactions or events that went awry.

Emotional Intelligence 134

Emotional Intelligence Case Interview Talent Pharmaceuticals 134

Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2017

We live in a culture of “yes.” But here’s the trouble with having a corporate culture built around likability: When people are afraid to turn down noncritical projects, good ideas get smothered. This misuse of talent is rampant in large organizations today. In fact, we’re hardwired for it.

Metrics 134

Metrics Culture System Course 134

LSA Global

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Talent Management Questions to Test If You are On the Right Track. If you truly want to attract, develop, engage and retain a high performing workforce, you have to break through talent management barriers – outmoded ways of thinking about talent in old-fashioned and ineffective ways. The Goal of Talent Management.

Talent 41

Talent Management Recruiting Recruitment 41

Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 17, 2023

Culture is acutely critical during notable changes, such as M&As, which offer an opportunity for a renewed start on culture. When two organizations combine through mergers and acquisitions for economic reasons, it is doubtful that the two cultures will remain precisely the same.

Culture 52

Culture Resources Tools Leadership 52

Tom Spencer

MAY 31, 2024

Unlike larger firms that offer a broad range of services across various sectors, boutique firms possess deep domain expertise, and attract top talent who are passionate about their chosen niche. It also allows for the most current, up-to-date advice, as the culture is more collaborative.

Agile 88

Agile Advertising Travel Consulting 88

Rick Conlow

JUNE 19, 2023

Bottom-line, companies with people-first culture led by Servant Leadership principles outperform their competitors. These benefits include increased flexibility, access to a broader talent pool, reduced commuting, and potential physical office cost savings. And, of course, management commitment and skills in supporting remote work.

Leadership 101

Leadership Training Training Productivity 101

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Ralph Terrazas, chief of the Los Angeles City Fire Department (LAFD), agrees: “[We] will provide a higher level of service to the communities we serve when the people of that department respect the culture, language and beliefs of the people within that community.” All I care about is if you can do the job.” However, as L.A.

Training 132

Training Training Groups Recruiting 132

Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2016

.” Beyond those three recommendations, we offer some additional tips for lowering your chances of being caught in a scandal and surviving one if you are: Know the law and cultural climate where you work. In the event of a corporate scandal, distancing one’s self from the stigmatized organization is crucial.

Company 114

Company How To Industry Ethics 114

Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

These are the very same cities where employers struggle to recruit and maintain skilled talent. I spoke with BirchBox’ s VP of People and Culture, Melissa Enbar. We spend the time to educate employees during onboarding or after a life change event so they understand how to use these accounts for significant savings.”

Company 134

Company Education Banking Travel 134

Harvard Business

APRIL 10, 2018

We also performed an event-study analysis to examine whether the market was more favorable to newly appointed CEOs when they had a more diverse network than their predecessors.

Research 130

Research Finance Study Analysis 130

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

” Mastromonaco brings tremendous talent to her workplace — but she also brings her anxiety. We’re hesitant to ask for what we need — flex time, or a day working from home — until we experience a major life event, like a new baby or the illness of a parent. Professional support needs to get better.

Education 133

Education Talent Management Meeting 133