Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

During my undergraduate education, I was always mesmerized by the sessions run by the MBB consulting firms: McKinsey , BCG, and Bain. My career path has taken me through consulting, joining a startup and becoming an operator, and then returning to consulting at an MBB firm. Why choose an MBB consulting firm? Three main reasons.

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Clarity Consultants

APRIL 26, 2023

Instructional designers are professionals who focus on creating and delivering learning products, such as company training and coursework for educational institutions. Education and communication are both critical components. The world of instructional design includes a few specific disciplines.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Buell is faculty chair of the HBS Executive Education course Transforming Customer Experiences , which explores how service leaders can create distinctive and sustainable service organizations that “turn customers into raving fans and employees into dedicated stewards of the mission.” Learn more.

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

Executive education students at Harvard Business School. HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. From here, firms have to make a creative leap to discover the unique combination of products and services that may address those needs.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 13, 2014

Britain’s finest educational name … ignores the explosion in online learning and fails dismally to exploit its intellectual property commercially … It lives off past glories, and is doomed to fade unless it reforms vigorously. After 800 years as one of the world’s leading educational institutions, Oxford has lost its way.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 4, 2018

one widely acknowledged indicator of a crisis in the making appeared in 1983, with the release of “ A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform.” One approach that has proven to be successful in recent years consists of targeted partnerships between business and education.

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Chad Barr

JANUARY 8, 2025

” This is not just a tech milestone—it’s a harbinger of a seismic shift in how businesses operate, innovate, and grow. Education: Personalizing learning for every individual, at scale. Manufacturing: Optimizing production processes far beyond human capability. What’s Next?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2016

A piece of machinery to meet a product need? This question has been top of mind lately among manufacturers aiming to drive profitable growth, triggering a fundamental shift to the way a business operates that increasingly focuses on outcomes. Operations in a Connected World. What are you really looking for? Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2016

A new set of relationships is being formed within companies around how people working in data, analytics, IT, and operations teams work together. Data and analytics represent a blurring of the traditional lines of demarcation between the scope of IT and the responsibilities of operating divisions. Data and analytics embedded in IT.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

It is worth noting this issue has nothing to do with education level: Roughly half (48%) of low-literacy consumers are college educated and nearly all (97%) have at least a high school diploma. Education has a role to play in reducing costs for health insurers, but it alone will not eliminate the problem. health expenditures.

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Harvard Business

JULY 25, 2017

In July 2013 we implemented a randomized controlled trial in five factory units in Bangalore operated by Shahi Exports Pvt. Workers within and across production lines were randomized into treatment (PACE training) and control (no PACE training) groups. percentage points more productive than control workers and working 7.8

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Buell is faculty chair of the HBS Executive Education program, Achieving Breakthrough Service , which explores how service leaders can create distinctive and sustainable service organizations that “turn customers into raving fans and employees into dedicated stewards of the mission.” How to Brand a Next-Generation Product.

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Successful Independent Consulting

APRIL 27, 2022

By contrast, professional independent consultants operate as microbusinesses. Freelancers use artistic or technical skill to generate work products. Like independent consultants, they often operate as microbusinesses, and are hired as independent contractors rather than employees. Freelancers are less expensive than contractors.”

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 1, 2013

They seized this opportunity to establish a firm that would help firms gain clarity about their business models, products, and clients and then advise them by creating long term strategies. The firm offers consulting services including strategy, operations, risk management, organizational transformation, and leadership development.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Capital-intensive factories have a high-fixed-cost, low-variable-cost operating model. If you greatly reduce the production volume, the cars that do come out have to absorb more of the fixed costs, and that eventually sends the product into a profitability death spiral. When and how are the best ways to do it?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 6, 2017

For instance, in 1880 most inventive activity was the result of inventors operating outside the boundaries of firms. history have tended to be highly educated, in contrast to the common portrait of the uneducated amateur. Much of the link between family income and invention appears to have been due to education.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 28, 2024

For non-business undergraduates, the MBA curriculum covers fundamental business topics such as finance, marketing, operations, strategy, leadership, and entrepreneurship. Before this role, he spearheaded the creation of an innovative final-mile logistics product at a startup, later acquired by Shopify.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

This story exemplifies one type of empathic design, namely by a user-designer who combines deep knowledge of product use with the ability to foresee new possibilities for it. By definition, empathy includes emotion — a connection beyond satisfaction with the operational. An emotional connection between design and its users.

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Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2016

At MyEdu, we had developed a college student profile product, and Blackboard – one of the largest educational software companies in the world – purchased our company to supplement their existing product portfolio with this rich new capability. I was at a startup that got acquired. It might be to buy talent.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

“Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything,” wrote Paul Krugman more than 20 years ago. Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. During much of this time, it has been shareholders, not workers, who have reaped the benefits of higher productivity.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 16, 2018

Note the far-reaching production changes Jean-Dominique Senard has made at Michelin to empower and engage workers. Companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.” Networks and communities spreading new norms and new forms of capitalism.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2018

If all went well, AI-powered robots would enable the company to achieve a weekly production of 5,000 Model 3 electric cars to keep up with burgeoning demand. According to CEO Elon Musk, the sophisticated robots actually slowed down production instead of speeding it up. Adding Humans to the Mix. Insight Center. Adopting AI.

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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

I asked my partner Jen Hamilton - our community Chief Operating Officer to be my guest today and share all the deets on the what you'll need and how much it all costs so that you can plan in advance for both the startup and ongoing costs. If you have an online product, maybe it’s an e-book. It matches the bank account.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Leveraging Cutting-Edge Technologies Under current conditions of economic turbulence, workforce shortage, and supply chain disruptions, manufacturing organizations should work towards increasing the efficiency of their operations, achieving business agility and resilience. Here are some of the examples. AI-driven applications).

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

When partners in an alliance come into conflict, it can be just what is needed to produce a technically and commercially successful product. ” Members from each partner organization rate the alliance in areas related to strategic fit, operational fit, and cultural fit. The results were fascinating.

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2016

Self-cannibalization occurs when a company chooses to proactively replace one product or process with another that is potentially worth less. Forward-looking incumbents recognize the need to cannibalize their own products, rather than leaving it to other startups, who are more than happy to take on the challenge.

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Tsavo Neal

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

It’s a Money Thing provides credit unions with a library of financial literacy content that enables them to supercharge their education efforts. Young & Free is a spokesperson-driven program that gives a young person the tools to create content and build awareness of a region’s credit union, its products and its services.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2017

User education is a long-term industry effort, but educating a society and then creating consistent behavior change is a multi-decade solution to a problem that needs to be fixed now. Large enterprises typically operate dozens of security products with growing headcount in all areas of their security organizations.

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Rick Conlow

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Sometimes that change means operating on yourself! Begin operating on your own situation by simply counting the how many times the letter f appears. To manage yourself to increase your effectiveness you must be willing to change some habits to increase productivity. Enroll in 4-6 education and training programs every year.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 24, 2016

Build quality into a product throughout production. Work to constantly improve quality and productivity. Eliminate work standard quotas for production. Educate with self-improvement programs. To say that there are such gaping flaws in how we educate is really to say that society is fundamentally ill.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

To date, business leaders have lacked two key pieces of information they need in order to act on the finding that meaning drives productivity. More importantly, though, employees who find work meaningful experience significantly greater job satisfaction, which is known to correlate with increased productivity.

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Harvard Business

MAY 29, 2017

Interestingly, all these intrusions into business operations typically do not come from the Kremlin but from local officials who seem eager to gain the Kremlin’s favor amid instances of elevated international tensions. This environment is altering how multinational firms operate in the country and market their products.

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Epicflow

JUNE 10, 2024

In addition, their focus on effective resource allocation, stakeholder engagement, and change management contributes to enhanced operational efficiency, increased agility, and improved project outcomes. What is the difference between a Chief Project Officer (CPO) and Chief Operating Officer (COO)? What organizations require a CPO?

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Recognizing client’s needs for help managing IT operations and resources, IBM Vice President Robert M. During this same year, IBM introduced Business Recovery Services as a formal business offering for customers, enabling them to continue operations in the event of an unplanned outage or disaster. Operations and Supply Chain.

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CaseInterview.com

APRIL 8, 2020

Here in the United States, we had and continue to have a major problem in scaling up the production of coronavirus test kits. There’s a growing concern around having enough medical staff available who know how to operate a ventilator. After all, an incremental one million machines aren’t going to operate themselves.

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Harvard Business

JULY 4, 2016

presumably you get marginal increases in productivity and decreases in inefficiency — less burn-out, a better working environment, less staff turn-over, etc. All of their expertise is in the program areas that they fund – poverty, education, etc. Precisely the opposite. This is not a judgment. We all have our disadvantages.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Female managers are concentrated in fields that emphasize people-centered caring skills, while men are concentrated in fields dealing with production-centered skills. Even in fields with mostly female workers, such as education, it was primarily men who managed female employees. Third, the bad news.

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