Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Attracting workers skilled in advanced analytics will become increasingly important for the company (as will the technology and processes required to translate these skills into real sources of advantage); industrial engineering and plant management skills will become less critical to fueling the company’s long-term growth.

Company 146

Company Talent Engineering Insurance 146

Harvard Business

MARCH 7, 2017

Susan Fowler, a former site reliability engineer at Uber, recently wrote about her “very, very strange year at Uber,” characterized by a pervasive culture of alleged sexual harassment. That is like setting up a finance organization to do exotic risk hedging before putting in place basic reporting and compliance.

Recruitment 143

Recruitment Recruiting Finance Agile 143

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Engineering (Mechanical Engineering is the most operationally focused). Engineering majors are known as beasts at Excel, which is fundamentally the most important hard skill you will need for consulting (on day one, the best analysts at Bain were absolutely the engineers – until the rest of us could catch up).

Consulting 100

Consulting Engineering Finance Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

This prioritization process has to start before any new idea reaches engineering. This way, the innovations that do reach engineering will already have substantial evidence — about validated customer needs, processes, legal security, and integration issues.

Engineering 136

Engineering Government Productivity Data 136

Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2018

The worker must also possess robotics and controls engineering skills, according to our analysis of Tesla’s recent recruiting efforts. Just as the internet revolution ushered in completely novel jobs — for example, web designer and search-engine optimization engineer — so will the new era of AI.

Engineering 130

Engineering Training Training Analysis 130

Progressus

AUGUST 28, 2023

Consider reviewing resumes on project managers, project engineers and staff. This type of software will simplify billing and help you stay on top of your finances with greater ease. The post Subcontractor Management for Engineering Companies appeared first on Progressus Software.

Engineering 52

Engineering Company Management Financial 52

CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

For example, if I’m terrible at engineering, but I collaborate with an exceptional engineer, my personal weakness is irrelevant. If someone I work with is fabulous at sales but terrible at finance, when we work together, I benefit from their talent in sales, and they benefit from my talent in finance.

Finance 98

Finance Engineering Talent McKinsey 98

Harvard Business

MAY 9, 2018

She had launched her career 12 years earlier with no connections — she just picked up a camera and started making small-budget films, including one she financed out of her own savings account. After becoming the CEO of WebMD, Patricia Fili-Krushel met with an all-male group of engineers in Silicon Valley.

Film 134

Film Engineering Research Energy 134

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

The quickest way to flip this public perception on its head is to render AI genderless, something I advocate for tirelessly and practice with Sage’s personal finance assistant, Pegg. Engineers conduct testing in labs and research facilities before a product launches. Diversifying the AI talent pool isn’t just about gender.

Engineering 132

Engineering Talent Productivity Ethics 132

Successful Independent Consulting

OCTOBER 22, 2017

SpareHire is an online work marketplace for finance and consulting projects.” TopTal is a network of the world’s top 3% of software engineering, design, and finance talent — available on demand to help companies accelerate, adapt, and scale.” Rates to the client (not to you) range from $75-200 per hour. (Sounds intimidating.

Talent 150

Talent Finance Consulting Development 150

Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Services include architecture, building engineering, construction services, design + planning, economics, energy and environmental services. Founded in 1946 with an initial focus on structural engineering, Arup first came to the world’s attention with the structural design of the Sydney Opera House. Tel: +852 2528 3031.

Consulting 94

Consulting Intellectual Property Engineering Real Estate 94

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2018

It’s a lesson for countries around the world: Once manufacturing bids farewell, engineering and production know-how depart as well, and innovation activities eventually follow. For good reason: these firms are diverse, resilient, and geographically distributed engines of innovation. It’s that the U.S. based companies.

Engineering 129

Engineering Government Automotive Research 129

Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

This might include advice on asset management, tax structuring, or capital structuring to reduce financing costs and sources of risk (e.g. Finance, HR, Supply Chain, ICT, Legal). For instance, financial consultants provide advice to organizations on financial matters. liquidity risk, interest rate risk, default risk).

Consulting 135

Consulting Operations Financial Real Estate 135

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

For example, if a meeting charter has significant implications for finance, one person from finance can attend and keep their finance colleagues informed. There should also be metrics assessing how well a meeting is executing its charter.

Meeting 134

Meeting How To Government Finance 134

Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2018

The people analytics team was surprised — as was finance team in that country, which had no reason to benchmark themselves against other countries and had no idea that they were such a bright spot. One people analytics team in an engineering company was struggling to help develop the company’s managers, for example.

Culture 143

Culture Strategy Strategy Strategy& 143

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Similarly, when Starbucks baristas make your latte the same way across cafés, or when a software engineer delivers the expected features each sprint, you are witnessing tactical performance. Three finance professors once asked more than 400 executives what they would do if their quarterly earnings targets were at risk.

Metrics 134

Metrics Engineering Operations Sales 134

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Don’t let your engineers hack together workarounds that will need to be maintained down the road; provide real engineering solutions to the types of problems new software has. Your customer feedback is coming in through a variety of channels: phone calls to founders, emails to engineers, even the occasional text message.

Metrics 132

Metrics Engineering Efficiency Operations 132

Markovitz Consulting

MAY 19, 2021

Similarly, one of the primary drivers of GE’s fall from grace was the reckless pursuit of profits from its financing operations. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering. Yes—an elementary school for budding engineers, pre-K through grade 5 (10 years old).

Company 124

Company Balance Sheet Metrics Engineering 124

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Other managerial occupations that became majority-female were education administration, human resources, property and real estate, and finance. Among the new positions to emerge since 1980, women make up less than 10% of architecture, engineer, and construction managers. Several positions, however, remain dominated by men.

Data 129

Data Management Real Estate Transportation 129

MishTalk

AUGUST 18, 2014

Spain is again dependent on foreign financing. Via translation from Libre Mercado, Spain Again Borrows Abroad to Finance Consumption. It is the foreign sector, one of the few economic engines of the country in recent years. Spain''s trade deficit doubled in the first half as imports soared.

Finance 74

Finance Engineering Energy Productivity 74

Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2017

Just as we wouldn’t rely on a single marketing tactic or a single source of financing for the entire life of an organization, we need to build up a portfolio of innovation strategies designed for specific tasks. Some large enterprises, like IBM and Procter & Gamble , have the resources to invest in labs to pursue basic research.

Research 195

Research Enterprise Video Energy 195

CaseInterview.com

JANUARY 31, 2022

Many applicants to college engineer their class selections and extra-curricular activities to be more competitive. If you get into Harvard Business School (HBS), you’re implicitly taught that you don’t really need to take the finance classes very seriously. None of them had gotten into college because none were even in high school yet.

Culture 121

Culture McKinsey Finance Engineering 121

Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2016

In venture capital-financed, high-growth technology startups, only 9% of entrepreneurs are women. Of course, VC-financed tech startups are different from the general workforce. Tech startups imply a science and engineering focus, two fields that are known to be less popular with women. That’s really low.

Research 70

Research Finance Comparison Small Business 70

CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

If you can articulate the finance department’s concerns better than they can, you’re trusted by those in that department. If you can articulate the concerns that engineering has better than they can, they trust that you grasp the key issues (as they see them). When you can do that, each group sees you as “one of them.”

Media 98

Media Advertising Finance Engineering 98

MishTalk

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

China Momentum The world is now reduced to: Japan QE Infinite (Helicopter money next) – BOJ is buying more than 100% of issuance from Ministry of Finance now! Yes, world should rejoice, take stocks & US dollar higher making sure EM engine is killed totally. World only has two engines of growth: EM and US.

Banking 71

Banking Engineering Finance Policies 71

Management Consulted

APRIL 11, 2016

The Brattle Group is now considered one of the European Union’s top consulting firms in the areas of energy, finance and competition. In 2013, the New York office was established, providing a home base in one the most important finance and legal markets in the world. Regulatory finance. Commercial damages. Accounting.

Groups 100

Groups Interviews Culture Case Interview 100

Tom Spencer

APRIL 1, 2022

These include offsetting greenhouse gas production by purchasing carbon credits, investing in more efficient gas turbine engines, using sustainable aviation fuel, and manufacturing with novel materials and 3D printing methods. When it comes to understanding the carbon footprint of these aircraft, the primary culprit is the engine.

Trends 88

Trends Engineering Travel Airlines 88

Harvard Business

MARCH 14, 2017

When one of us (Vivek) and his team launched Roivant Sciences in 2014 and began developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease — they were determined to learn from the pharma industry’s innovation issues and build a more sustainable innovation engine.

Company 121

Company Recruitment Recruiting Talent 121

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

This will almost surely go beyond what can be considered “side work” and they’ll need to collaborate with others for engineering and process changes. Don’t bury it under another department like marketing, product, finance, etc. They saw an unexplained phenomenon, had a hunch, and started tinkering.

Data 124

Data Engineering Metrics Resources 124

Tom Spencer

JANUARY 31, 2021

For example, if you want to pursue a career in finance, the ideal candidate would have a degree in economics or extensive background in finance. Some online estimates suggest that the starting salary at one of the top companies is higher than $100,000 annually, which is in line with other very high earning industries such as finance.

Consulting 88

Consulting Finance Industry Study 88

Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2017

Automating finance. This lets organizations reduce the amount of work outsourced to service centers and frees up finance staff to focus on strategic tasks. If a person with an engineering degree wishes to run the division someday, what additional education and work experience should they obtain, and in what order?

Company 134

Company Software Data Sports 134

Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Engineers and designers work in concert in small teams; 90% of meeting spaces at the company’s offices are built for eight people or less. Then comes the meat and potatoes of the interview: three one-hour sessions of pair programming with a veteran engineer. 28% of Management Consultants Pursue Finance.

Culture 100

Culture Case Interview Interviews Engineering 100

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

For example, HR can work with marketing for guidance on search engine optimization (SEO), a skill that can help HR improve its recruitment efforts. At most companies, other departments use data and technology in ways that HR could apply to their own work.

Data 132

Data Talent Survey Recruiting 132

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 4, 2016

And we continue to hear stories about sexual harassment in academia , medicine , science , and engineering driving women out of STEM. For example, Megan, a woman we spoke to who works in finance, explained that after being harassed by a colleague, she went to HR and asked to move to a different position. I said, ‘I sure have.

Report 133

Report Case Interview Culture Training 133

Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2016

These entrepreneurs typically have an engineering background, and schools that support this approach have strong engineering departments. They typically hire third parties to help them with IT and never make it part of their core business. A second set of entrepreneurs focus on information goods and think of IT as the product.

Construction 121

Construction Airlines Data Travel 121

Harvard Business

MAY 19, 2016

Encouraging universities to educate more physicists and engineers will not make a difference if these additional STEM graduates then choose to work for investment banks that offer higher salaries.

Education 132

Education Data Training Training 132

Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2017

In effect, they all had skin in the game, which remains one of the most elusive elements of modern finance. Thus a trust and efficiency engine like blockchain technology has the potential to drive radical change in the insurance industry while improving transparency and outcomes across the entire value chain.

Insurance 132

Insurance Insurance Industry Balance Sheet 132