Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2016

Even without speaking the local language, you can learn a huge amount about a country’s culture from tuning into local television shows, especially comedy programs. Being able to tune into a culture without pre-conceived biases or judgment is a skill all leaders need in complex, global organizations. Managing Across Cultures.

Culture 70

Culture Turnaround Interviews Hotels 70

Harvard Business

APRIL 3, 2018

Through historical research and many interviews, we found several ways in which early stumbles in the organic wine market created marketing problems that the industry still struggles to overcome. The Turnaround. Why the difference? ” Organic wine was not strongly embraced by distributors and retailers, either.

Chemicals 127

Chemicals Retail Case Interview Turnaround 127

CaseInterview.com

MARCH 26, 2019

The PARADE Method (tm) is an approach to answering resume-oriented job interview questions. It is an approach I developed that is tailored for answering these questions in job interviews for management consulting, as well as interviews for senior executive positions in industry. Interviewers want to know what you did.

Case Interview 81

Case Interview Interviews Resumes Retail 81

Harvard Business

AUGUST 11, 2017

We interviewed roughly 30 LCPs to get a sense of how this new role is shaping up. Most of the LCPs we studied began with the task of ensuring the PE firm itself had the right talent, culture, and leadership, and then moved on to do the same for portfolio companies. The LCP’s Role in the PE Firm.

Leadership 71

Leadership Talent Culture Turnaround 71

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

A series of jarring experiences have taught you that: Your management authority is meaningless in a culture that worships engineers. Dense geographic concentrations in regions such as Silicon Valley, Seattle, Boston and Bangalore foster even more cultural idiosyncrasies. We then interviewed more than a dozen U.S.

Talent 70

Talent Culture Turnaround Interviews 70

Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2016

I’ve interviewed thousands of candidates for managerial roles and tracked the performance of those I successfully hired. Japan’s educational institutions and cultural work ethic give its managers a jump-start in their careers, but most companies don’t continue the development process as far as it could go.

Turnaround 70

Turnaround Leadership Engineering Case Interview 70

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

He developed a three-year plan for his turnaround vision, which was translated into annual and quarterly operating plans, and biquarterly responsibilities for his executive team. ” Many CEOs in our interviews emphasized the importance of choosing the right metrics to support both/and decision making. Has something changed?’

Metrics 112

Metrics Study Financial Operations 112

Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Volvo’s turnaround over the last decade offers a great example. “Technically, cars today are very different from ten years ago,” says Sällström, whom we interviewed for our book, Talent Wins. Developing what we call an “M&A strategy for talent” is one way to overcome this.

Talent 71

Talent Engineering Case Interview Turnaround 71

Harvard Business

APRIL 4, 2016

This is confirmed by my follow-up interviews with these leaders, which revealed that these internal transitions can be every bit as tough as onboarding, involving combinations of promotions and moves to new units or new geographies, as well as dealing with different cultures and political networks.

Turnaround 70

Turnaround Chemicals Study Company 70

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Since 2009 we have interviewed and surveyed 181 executives who run PE-owned companies, as well as eight to 15 people who work with each of these 181 executives (supervisors, board members, director reports, and others). He quickly recognized that he had to institute a new strategy and culture.

Company 70

Company Engineering Turnaround System 70

Peter Stark

OCTOBER 13, 2019

One employee we were interviewing told us that working at his corporation was almost like a religious experience. For example, we recently interviewed an employee who described her work environment as toxic. Most often, they’re going to need additional help in developing the strategies and actions to make a positive turnaround.

Survey 38

Survey Turnaround Leadership Interviews 38

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Our study of the actions and impact of 411 leaders of UK academies found that only 62 of them managed their turnaround successfully and sustainably transformed their school. And we interviewed the leaders and their teams to understand the challenges they faced, when they occurred, and how they overcame them.

Research 71

Research Study Education Recruitment 71

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

We then conducted a series of in-depth individual interviews, delving into pivotal experiences in their personal history and career progression, and using Korn Ferry’s executive online assessment to measure key personality traits and drivers that had an impact. Women could be ready for the CEO role sooner. But what else did you do?

Interviews 71

Interviews Benchmarking Case Interview Talent 71