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Consulting 101: Operations, Hierarchies, and Types of Firms

Tom Spencer

Your business just launched a new product and needs to market it. Market trends have changed, and you want to make sure the product will reach the correct target customer. Clients may need help with market research, competitor analysis, growth strategies, supply chain optimization, product development, or a range of other issues.

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To Little, Too Late: Why many Diversity and Inclusion efforts fall short

Kates Kesler

They need to consider the strategic implications or opportunities of diversity relative to customers, products, brand, geographic footprint. Many organizations have a diversity strategy as part of an overall talent strategy but fail to incorporate diversity considerations into their other strategies. Capabilities.

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To Little, Too Late: Why many Diversity and Inclusion efforts fall short

Kates Kesler

They need to consider the strategic implications or opportunities of diversity relative to customers, products, brand, geographic footprint. Many organizations have a diversity strategy as part of an overall talent strategy but fail to incorporate diversity considerations into their other strategies. Capabilities.

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Business Spotlight: Stanford GBS grad launches Returnships

Management Consulted

It’s their largest portfolio investment ever, and one of the things I did for them was to develop their MBA recruiting strategy, and their MBA internship program. You know, you start as a product manager, senior product manager, director of product management: that’s the way all these job descriptions are written.

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How We Think About Innovation at Cisco

Harvard Business

At Cisco, we are learning to answer these questions through three initiatives designed to broaden our knowledge base by bringing multiple perspectives together: embracing diversity within our walls; reaching out across industries; and building partnerships with former (and current) competitors. Partnerships with outside organizations.

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The Startups Most Likely to Succeed Have Technical Founders Who Quickly Hire Businesspeople

Harvard Business

Identifying, recruiting , and retaining the right employees are among the most important tasks in the formative stages of a new business — and among the most challenging. So why wouldn’t you take as much time as necessary to find all the A-players? … A small company depends on great people much more than a big company does.

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When to Decentralize Decision Making, and When Not To

Harvard Business

sales, procurement, recruiting, regulatory affairs) and the accountability for proper execution at that level. Think of compensation and benefits policies, product design standards, quality assurance methods, fraud reporting procedures, financial reporting systems, and the like. If the sources of these opportunities and threats (e.g.,