Harvard Business

JANUARY 24, 2023

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Harvard Business

MARCH 10, 2025

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 3, 2025

Corporate executives often use war metaphors like declaring war on the competition to project strength and confidence in their strategies. Research reveals that these aggressive metaphors may provoke negative reactions from a critical audience: financial analysts.

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Successful Independent Consulting

MARCH 28, 2025

Here are several strategies you can use to achieve these objectives and improve the health of your business. Leverage low-risk, short-term financing. If youre charging hourly, consider a new pricing strategy like fixed fee, package pricing, or hybrid pricing. Top Ten Cash Flow Boosters 1. Speed up the money coming in.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In their work on purpose activation with more than 150 firms, the authors have developed three strategies to help employees maintain that connection. The second strategy is to reframe your measures of success. Think about the difference between “number of accounts added” and “number of people we are helping to improve their finances.”

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

A review of more than 3,500 research papers shows how “field building” helps investors have a more positive impact on the environment and society.

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Effective Managers

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

When business is booming and your strategy is paying off, it’s easy to feel confident in your direction. It’s easy to assume that if growth is steady, there’s no need to make significant changes or seek out new strategies. Introduction As a CEO, there are few things more satisfying than seeing year-over-year growth.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Business schools must incorporate interdisciplinary approaches in their programs, combining environmental and climate science with traditional business skills like carbon accounting, strategy, and governance.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 11, 2023

In the ever-evolving world of finance, where data analysis and informed decision-making are vital, the emergence of artificial intelligence has proven to be a transformative force. This article will delve deeper into four ways in which AI is reshaping the world of finance, improving data analysis, and redefining decision-making processes.

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Harvard Business

JULY 29, 2024

In any other election cycle, the predictable increase and decrease in uncertainty offers shrewd managers unique opportunities for operating, investment, and financing decisions. In the U.S., it’s normal for policy uncertainty to increase before a major election, then decrease once the results are in.

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Successful Independent Consulting

JANUARY 28, 2025

strategy development, market research, transformation initiatives). On-Demand by RGP : Specializes in operational and implementation support; projects tend to be longer-term roles focusing on functional expertise like accounting, finance, HR, IT, and supply chain.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

EVEN if you feel the crunch on the finances, you do not want to under-value what you can bring to the table. Do you focus your energy on selling yourself, your mission or methodology OR do you position yourself as a strategic partner who is ready to help solve a clients most pressing business performance challenges.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Managers tend to think about liquidity as a finance issue, but in face the behaviors of the sales and operations team — and how they communicate and work together — can have a direct affect on a company’s cash position.

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Consulting Success

JULY 23, 2021

They aren’t on top of their finances. Do you have a consulting invoice template that enables you to create and send professional invoices quickly? We see many consultants who are successful and generating good levels of revenue. But on the financial side, they are slow to invoice.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

EVEN if you feel the crunch on the finances, you do not want to under-value what you can bring to the table. Do you focus your energy on selling yourself, your mission or methodology OR do you position yourself as a strategic partner who is ready to help solve a clients most pressing business performance challenges.

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Clarity Consultants

APRIL 16, 2025

Businesses in regulated industries such as healthcare, finance, and manufacturing can use eLearning to ensure strict adherence to industry standards and guidelines. Organizations should use data analysis and feedback loops to refine training strategies continually.

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Epicflow

AUGUST 30, 2024

Supply chain management aims to regulate the flow of materials, information, and finances across the entire supply chain. The purpose of inventory management is to make sure that the right material resources are available when needed, minimize storage costs, and reduce the risk of stockouts. Supply chain management. Maintenance management.

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Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2018

Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. 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. Insight Center. Competing in the Future. How to make your company more nimble and responsive.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

With thousands of management consultants applying to top MBA programs each year, consulting is one of the most overrepresented candidate pools, alongside finance. By employing these strategies, you can effectively differentiate yourself in the highly competitive consulting applicant pool for top MBA programs.

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Epicflow

DECEMBER 10, 2024

engineering, marketing, finance, etc.) Overcoming resource management challenges in matrix organization s requires thoughtful resource management strategies. A matrix organizational structure means that a companys employees report to multiple managers, e.g., a project (or product) manager and a functional manager.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 8, 2022

I initially started out my career in management consulting, exited to an internal strategy team in industry, and pivoted back to consulting. This two part article series will provide valuable perspective for those who are considering internal strategy teams as their next career option as I unveil my personal thoughts and experiences.

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Steve Shu Consulting

APRIL 19, 2018

Back in 2010, I was part of a team that started one of the early behavioral finance centers with one of the investment manufacturing firms in the United States. One key observation I’ve had is that certain companies can have different strategies for implementing behavioral economics. Mercer UK – Personalised Pension Videos.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Intense competition drove centralized crypto finance platforms to take on hidden, unsustainable risks. But DeFi might offer a path forward.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2021

Four strategies to reduce friction between these sometimes reluctant partners.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 1, 2013

Oliver Wyman’s strategy consulting practice has made waves specifically in the financial services sector , and beyond as well. Now a subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan, Oliver Wyman is known to give MMC its strong reputation as experts over other insurance providers because of the firm’s focus on strategy. Public Policy.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

If you’re not a numbers person, finance is daunting. After all, if you’re trying to sell a product or strategy, you need to be able to demonstrate that it is both practical and high margin. Here are some strategies to improve your financial intelligence. Stop avoiding finance because you’re afraid of numbers.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 12, 2014

You are valued for your ability to review/cut/analyze data and use the results to come up with solutions and strategies to your clients’ dilemmas. It focuses on branding strategies, customer centricity and new market entry. What should your strategy be? Corporate Finance Essentials. IESE Business School.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Add to your list all the ways procrastinating on retirement saving could affect your social life, finances, stress, happiness, health, and so on. While it’s not worth spending 20 minutes listing the costs of not going for your evening run, listing the costs will significantly help for a task such as saving for retirement.

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Steve Shu Consulting

JULY 25, 2014

Yet as another example, at Allianz Global Investors we took another approach by setting up a Center for Behavioral Finance with a Chief Behavioral Economist and then establishing a number of initiatives within the Center to provide thought leadership and support the larger business. Strategy Development. How might we change the game?

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 31, 2025

This means there is likely to be huge demand for consultants with life sciences expertise to work on a range of projects from navigating the complex regulatory landscape to developing business growth strategies. Olivia Tan is a biochemistry student at Imperial College London with prior experience in business, consulting, and finance.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

New ideas and strategies while working on the projects, finding different ways of doing things more effectively; I started feeling enthralled. ” “I became interested in consulting while doing a PhD investigating regional economic integration in East Asia and Japan’s international trade strategy. .”

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Harvard Business

JUNE 9, 2020

How experimentation, judicious risk taking, and entrepreneurship in finance and capital markets could lead to a Covid-19 vaccine.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 28, 2025

In this article, we will explore the rise of digital currency, potential impacts on the global financial system, and strategies traditional financial institutions are employing to keep pace. Lets take a closer look at some of the strategies being employed by the worlds leading banks and financial firms.

Banking 88

Banking Financial System B2B 88

Steve Shu Consulting

DECEMBER 21, 2022

If you believe some of these perspectives, it seems as though many investors will need new investment strategies (e.g., As a behavioral finance person, I see some perils of using fast, autonomous thinking and the need to try to use more slow, reflective thinking. rebalancing of portfolios from equity to credit instruments).

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 11, 2024

As companies navigate todays complex business and geopolitical landscape, CFOs have seen risk management rise to the top of their priorities. Theyre increasingly using scenario planning as a key tool to manage risk and strategically unlock new value-creation opportunities.

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