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So You Want to Be a Product Manager

Harvard Business

Product management can be a great stepping stone for ambitious early career professionals, and it’s not just for those with an engineering background. Despite recent tech layoffs and a precarious job market, product management remains a vibrant and promising field for early career professionals.

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A Study of 16 Countries Shows That the Most Productive Firms (and Their Employees) Are Pulling Away from Everyone Else

Harvard Business

The corporate landscape has become increasingly unequal, with the most productive firms thriving and the least productive ones failing to keep up. And second, we are able to link it to firms’ productivity and several measures of labor market policies. The Most Productive Firms Are Pulling Ahead, Across Industries.

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How Cloud Computing Is Changing Management

Harvard Business

That makes it imperative to start thinking about how management will be changed by the most impactful information technology of our time: cloud computing. BPM reflected the interactions of different stakeholders, from product creation through supply chain to final assembly. How it effects product design and customer experience.

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Review of “Open Leadership” Framework (Leadership and Social Technologies Book)

Steve Shu Consulting

This part also frames open strategy in terms of four objective areas (applicable to company/brand/product) of learn, dialog, support, and innovate and increasing levels of engagement with constituents. customer service, marketing), and organizational models (e.g., centralized, distributed) and tradeoffs for implementing.

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Paying Skilled Workers More Would Create More Skilled Workers

Harvard Business

Nevertheless, few would argue that information technology permanently increased unemployment. Research that I and my colleagues have conducted suggests that the skills gap persists mainly because employers are unwilling or unable to pay market price for the skills they require. However, I argue that this view is not correct.

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Big Companies Don’t Pay as Well as They Used To

Harvard Business

And big companies tended to be more efficient than smaller firms, which meant their workers were more productive and therefore better paid. First, the catering companies hired employees at the going market rate, without any wage premium. Bigger companies could attract qualified, sought-after employees who could demand higher wages.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

Compensation and benefits are on par to the market, but not adjusted for NYC living (so for take-home pay you might be better off in Atlanta or Dallas as a young McKinseyite, unless the magnetic draw to the Big Apple is just too much). Accenture has a nearly-secret, much smaller, unofficial office on 11 Broadway.