Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2018

For Tesla, adding more human labor to the mix means extending traditional jobs with additional responsibilities that would help ensure the smooth and efficient operation of the Alien Dreadnought. The worker must also possess robotics and controls engineering skills, according to our analysis of Tesla’s recent recruiting efforts.

Engineering 130

Engineering Training Training Analysis 130

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.

Recruiting 150

Recruiting Recruitment Finance Agile 150

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

Successful Independent Consulting

OCTOBER 22, 2017

SpareHire is an online work marketplace for finance and consulting projects.” TalMix is a bidding marketplace, offering consulting opportunities in strategy, market research, due diligence, competitive intelligence, operations, and program management. Rates to the client (not to you) range from $75-200 per hour.

Talent 150

Talent Finance Consulting Development 150

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. A great salesperson will operate much more efficiently with a defined process for reaching out to prospects. We made a number of operational changes to the call center.

Metrics 136

Metrics Engineering Operations Sales 136

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

Progressus

AUGUST 28, 2023

Since the performance level of sub-contractors is a reflection of the company that hired them, it’s critical to effectively manage them throughout the course of daily operations until a project is complete. Consider reviewing resumes on project managers, project engineers and staff.

Engineering 52

Engineering Company Management Financial 52

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

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. Healthy companies understand that they have a vital role to play in the health of the communities in which they operate. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering.

Company 124

Company Balance Sheet Metrics Engineering 124

Tom Spencer

MAY 31, 2012

Bain operates in 47 offices across 30 countries. In Ausralia, Bain operates out of Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. Founded in 1963 by Bruce Henderson, BCG operates in more than 75 offices worldwide. In Australia, BCG operates out of Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne and Perth. McKinsey operates in 98 locations worldwide.

Oliver Wyman 122

Oliver Wyman Strategy Strategy Strategy& 122

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 130

Data Management Real Estate Transportation 130

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 128

Engineering Government Automotive Research 128

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Some of Google’s products include Gmail, Google search engine, YouTube, Google Earth, Picasa, and Google Voice. If you onboard with Google doing strategy, you could find yourself working on mergers & acquisitions, operations, or even corporate finance in different business areas. How many Google services do you use?

Culture 100

Culture Case Interview Interviews Recruiting 100

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Among the findings: On average, HR leaders lag far behind other professionals in their ability to operate in a highly digital environment and use data to guide business decisions. For example, HR can work with marketing for guidance on search engine optimization (SEO), a skill that can help HR improve its recruitment efforts.

Data 132

Data Talent Survey Recruiting 132

Harvard Business

JUNE 25, 2018

Management concepts, by contrast, operate in poorly regulated environments where failures are often brushed under boardroom or faculty carpets. To this end, if we reverse engineer today’s sustainability agenda, it is clear that a powerful element of its genetic code has been the Triple Bottom Line (variously rendered as TBL or 3PL).

System 134

System Financial Report Benchmarking 134

Tom Spencer

JUNE 21, 2024

In my journey from university to the professional world, I, like many of my peers, initially gravitated towards the allure of prestigious roles in consulting or finance. For instance, acquiring coding skills such as SQL and Python empowered me to grasp technical complexities and collaborate effectively with our engineering team.

Transportation 88

Transportation Engineering Resources Productivity 88

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

This leaves operating managers, the ultimate “consumers” of talent, to choose between two talent acquisitions methods (or “sourcing channels”): Either engage HR to acquire employees or engage Procurement to acquire contingent workers. Create one integrated workforce strategy.

Talent 70

Talent Strategy Strategy& Strategy 70

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

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The complex calculations of the field known as Operations Research were enabled by mainframe computing. The cloud is also a common repository for the collection and analysis of new data, and the place where an increasing number of artificial intelligence operations, like image and speech recognition, are conducted.

Change Management 136

Change Management Management Software Productivity 136

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

We have algorithms for recommender systems, merchandise buying, inventory management, relationship management, logistics, operations — we even have algorithms for designing clothes! Don’t bury it under another department like marketing, product, finance, etc. You need to create an environment in which it can thrive.

Data 124

Data Engineering Metrics Resources 124

Harvard Business

MAY 11, 2017

A real-estate search engine might actually “sell” wise decision making, through the process of making the largest transaction their customers will ever make. That may be the journey from unhealthy to healthy living, or from being broke to being a good steward of their finances. CVS Health “sells,” well, health.

Real Estate 136

Real Estate Video Productivity Analysis 136

Tom Spencer

AUGUST 16, 2024

Despite many current applications being small-scale pilot projects, the promise of Gen AI to revolutionise banking operations and enhance customer experiences is becoming clear. The AI model aims to help financial advisors quickly find and synthesize answers to investing and finance queries and offer highly personalized insights on the spot.

Banking 78

Banking Financial Operations Data 78

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

Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2018

The experience of the typical intrapreneur looks less like Spencer Silver, who developed the Post-It note while at 3M, and more like Steven Sasson, the engineer at Kodak who invented the portable digital camera. As is now well-known, instead of propelling Kodak into the future, the digital camera became a massive missed opportunity.

System 94

System Talent Research Resources 94

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 133

Insurance Insurance Industry Balance Sheet 133

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Given that those companies were all venture-financed and emerged from Silicon Valley, you might assume that the key ingredients that have ensured their success were cutting-edge technologies, digital platforms, and customer bases that were chiefly made up of digital natives.

Advertising 132

Advertising Turnaround Resources Comparison 132

Harvard Business

AUGUST 2, 2018

” Even if you cannot change your circumstances, “you might be able to change the microenvironment in which you operate.” “It really helped to inject purpose and happiness into my career and those of my colleagues in engineering.” Finances were a consideration.

How To 133

How To Case Study Case Studies Finance 133

Management Consulted

JULY 2, 2017

You are able to (or have to – depending on how you look at it) work with industry engineers and consultants. Despite the teeny-tiny footprint (compared to most McKinsey locations), several global practice leaders – in Corporate Finance, Marketing & Sales, Innovation, Strategy, Consumer and Transactions – are based in Boston.

Oliver Wyman 72

Oliver Wyman Mercer Consulting Deloitte 72

Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Many of the world’s thought leaders believe that data will unlock a huge transformation in the way that businesses operate and thrive in the 21st Century. Prateek Natani is an Associate Consultant at KPMG, and completed a Computer Science Engineering degree in June 2020. Data Proliferation. Required Skills.

Data 88

Data Trends Information Technology Information Technology 88

Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2016

LTCM was founded, in 1994, by some of the best minds in finance theory, including two Nobel Prize winners. It comprises a range of conceptual and analytical operations, including problem definition, signal processing, pattern recognition, abstraction and conceptualization, analysis, and prediction.

Strategy 70

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Engineering 70

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Digital startups had begun producing virtual products that ZF did not know how to compete against, and engineers in logistics, operations, and other functions were finding that their traditional approaches couldn’t handle the complex issues they faced. ZF, a global automotive supplier based in Germany, was no exception.

Company 126

Company Data Automotive Energy 126

Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

From technology and finance to healthcare and marketing, data scientists are at the forefront of extracting meaningful insights from vast amounts of data. Most data scientists hold a bachelor’s degree in computer science, statistics, mathematics, or engineering. The Impact of Data Scientists 2.1 However, a master’s degree or Ph.D.

Data 78

Data Healthcare Tools Trends 78

Harvard Business

AUGUST 5, 2016

Under this financing structure, the company contracts to buy kilowatts, not the turbines and panels. They had framing conversations with the CEO and CFO early on to discuss any financial or operational challenges. The Texas site alone produces more energy than what Owens Corning uses across its significant Texas operations.

Energy 70

Energy Industry Finance Operations 70

Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

2024 Healthcare Project Delivery Conference January, 30-31, San Diego, USA This year’s conference will focus on implementing developments in procurement, design, financing, and O&M in healthcare projects. The participants will learn how healthcare providers overcome resource constraints and deliver new developments.

Industry 130

Industry Automotive Pharmaceuticals Management 130

Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2016

The latest nuclear reactor designs, promising higher safety, longer operating life, and lower operating costs, cost up to $25 billion after factoring in the huge budget overruns. The common idea behind these models is that the company does not have to be the (full) owner of the asset to be its (sole) operator.

Operations 70

Operations Examples Insurance Insurance 70

Epicflow

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Eli’s innovative approaches and insights continue inspiring professionals and organizations worldwide to achieve operational excellence. Beyond just time, buffers can cover finances, manpower, and more. For instance, if a particular engineering team is stretched thin, all projects dependent on that team will experience delays.

Resources 130

Resources System Tools Management 130

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Do you sweat when nervously thinking about how Disney can expand its operations in Brazil? I knew your course focused on strategy consulting – but after reading everything you covered, I figured much of the stuff would overlap with technology and operations consulting too. Am I glad I bought it!! I almost laughed out loud.

Case Interview 175

Case Interview Bain McKinsey Interviews 175