Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2017

One of the reasons for the current lackluster response is that the NHS is increasingly struggling to recruit and retain its health workforce. million on locum agency fees, and only £55,000 recruiting doctors. using the UK Retail Price Index). This loan repayment system could operate similarly to how the U.S.

Recruiting 71

Recruiting Recruitment Training Training 71

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2018

These are major changes that will affect every aspect of how the firm operates — from the services it offers to the structure of her organization. A large European retail bank modeled this well during an organizational overhaul. Involve Individuals at All Levels. A transformation won’t succeed without broad involvement.

Interviews 133

Interviews Banking Retail Survey 133

Management Consulted

JANUARY 20, 2014

However, today BearingPoint is emerging as a player in the operations and technology scene, especially in Europe, and has re-established an impressive growth trajectory. Now, BearingPoint is operated as a Netherlands-based partnership which consisted of 120 partners in 14 countries throughout Europe. Supply Chain & Operations.

BearingPoint 139

BearingPoint Interviews Oliver Wyman Capgemini 139

Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

We relied on marketing professors to learn current market analysis techniques and tools, online retail platforms for data, and customer surveys to generate a majority of our insights. With a team of five, we delved into 3+ years of sales data and operational costs to create an effective final presentation.

Consulting 142

Consulting Recruiting Recruitment Sales 142

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

At L’Oréal, CEO Jean-Paul Agon signaled the company’s digital transformation when he recruited Lubomira Rochet to be the chief digital officer and a member of the executive team. The team was structured to operate like a startup, with a particular focus on user research, feedback, and a commitment to lean operations.

Media 135

Media Fashion Agile Sales 135

Management Consulted

JANUARY 29, 2017

Have you missed the undergraduate recruitment window? Here are 6 ways to prepare for consulting as you wait for the next chance to drop that resume: 1) Go work for a brand name company, but do something that is sales, operations, or strategy related. Didn’t make the break you expected this year for careers?

Consulting 100

Consulting Finance Resumes Healthcare 100

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

This isn’t all that surprising given the level of innovation activity in these sectors, but directors operating in similarly disrupted sectors should take note. Director Recruitment and Skills. Recruiting directors with technological expertise is one avenue through which boards can boost their innovative capabilities.

Telecommunications 126

Telecommunications Survey Biotechnology Industry 126

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Recognizing client’s needs for help managing IT operations and resources, IBM Vice President Robert M. During this same year, IBM introduced Business Recovery Services as a formal business offering for customers, enabling them to continue operations in the event of an unplanned outage or disaster. Operations and Supply Chain.

IBM GBS 203

IBM GBS Interviews Consulting Case Interview 203

Tom Spencer

JUNE 30, 2023

The financial services industry comprises firms that operate across a range of sectors: Asset & Wealth Management, Banking & Capital Markets, and Insurance.

Banking 78

Banking Management Real Estate Insurance 78

Harmonious Workplaces

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In-person, low-paying positions in retail, hospitality, restaurants, and healthcare remain in strong demand, though they may not attract highly skilled talent with college degrees or advanced credentials. In that case, these professionals can help manage the transition smoothly, ensuring minimal disruption to operations.

Recruiting 96

Recruiting Recruitment Talent Case Interview 96

Harvard Business

JUNE 15, 2018

The supply chain is the heart of a company’s operations. Robots are improving productivity and margins in retail warehouses and fulfillment centers. Rio Tinto, the global mining-and-metals company, is exploring how digital technologies can automate mine-to-port operations. Alistair Berg/Getty Images.

Management 72

Management Retail Operations Data 72

Harvard Business

JULY 17, 2017

It’s far from the only case of a failure to embrace a more digital approach; the larger shift to digital is changing the way every industry operates. Its recent launch of Marcus , an online retail bank, is a particularly promising signal. Some industries, like photography and media, were impacted earlier.

Financial 134

Financial Industry Banking Company 134

Harvard Business

JUNE 22, 2016

Fourth, begin to operate a pilot of your network business by shifting small amounts of capital (including time, talent, and money) to the new initiative. Consider also the digital platform that would enable this collaboration, but to remember to start with a small investment and plan on iteration as you learn.

How To 123

How To Metrics Pharmaceuticals Hotels 123

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% We set about investigating the financial costs and benefits of the uptake of sustainable and deforestation-free beef by ranchers, slaughterhouses, and retailers in Brazil. of revenues).

Methodologies 72

Methodologies How To Case Study Case Studies 72

Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

I got a part-time job in a retail store, and in my downtime I just started a learning a lot of the tools necessary in order to be a producer/project manager in media. So I started searching for programs that consulting firms recruit from. Georgia Tech is a program that two firms recruit from that I would be interested in.

Consulting 125

Consulting Resumes Bain Recruiting 125

Management Consulted

JANUARY 25, 2016

Popular fields for AlixPartners alum include venture capital, private equity, financial services, investment management and retail. Sean Sternbach – Director of Operations – Pet Lodge Pet Resort. ALIXPARTNERS INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING . Financial Services. Healthcare. Heavy Equipment. Life Sciences. Oil & Gas.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Turnaround Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Its unrivaled base of knowledge allows it to use price as a communications tool, a recruiting tool, a psychological weapon, and a value driver in ways that transcend the basic mechanics of supply and demand and profit and loss. Now Amazon can supplement that knowledge with direct, proprietary insights about the offline retail world.

Retail 72

Retail Productivity Operations Study 72

Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2017

So four years ago, when I was CEO of GE Capital Retail Finance and tapped to lead a mega change initiative — splitting off our unit into a new, publicly traded company, Synchrony Financial — I’ll admit I viewed it as a huge challenge. We have hired more than 5,000 new employees since beginning the effort in late 2013.)

Management 130

Management Change Management Culture Leadership 130

Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

It operates at the task level and not the end-to-end process level.” The company may have collections of standard operating procedures, but they are often poorly documented and out of date. As Andrew Spanyi , the author of four books on process management, put it to us by email: “RPA does not redesign anything.

Company 136

Company Process Improvement Case Interview Banking 136

Management Consulted

MAY 21, 2015

T-Mobile, an American operating entity of a German company, is the smallest big player in U.S. Power and Associates, a global marketing-information-services firm, as the highest in retail store satisfaction amongst its competitors consecutively for the the past four years and also the highest for customer care two years consecutively.

Wireless 100

Wireless Culture Telecommunications Interviews 100

Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Birthed in 2004 as a spin-off of Indian tech outsourcing behemoth Infosys Technologies, Infosys Consulting is quickly climbing the charts as an industry leader in IT Operations and Strategy consulting. IT Operations. Supply Chain and Operations Processes. SAP Operational Excellence. INFOSYS CONSULTING. IT Strategy.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Consulting Deloitte 100

Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

As such, I’ve increasingly seen case interviews being used to recruit for corporate strategy roles in all sectors and business operation (“BizOps”) roles at startups. If you are applying to retail, you will have a retail case. Now, case interviews for non-consulting industries tend to really intimidate candidates.

Case Interview 78

Case Interview Interviews Consulting Case Study 78

Tom Spencer

JANUARY 6, 2018

Simply put, management consulting is a profession that requires practitioners to possess solid and wide business common sense, deep professional knowledge in 1-2 domains (such as Marketing, Retail, Operation), and most importantly, intellectual capability to solve complicated business problems for clients.

Industry 79

Industry Consulting Oliver Wyman McKinsey 79

Harvard Business

JANUARY 31, 2017

While some have invested significantly in technology, operational, and cultural changes, others are lagging behind. billion, including most major firms in the manufacturing, consumer packaged goods, financial services, and retail industries. Other financial and operating indicators showed similar disparities.

Company 70

Company Operations Data Benchmarking 70

Management Consulted

MARCH 26, 2017

Although historically not known for consulting services (unless you were consulting – ahem, lobbying – government officials), strategy, operations, and even tech consulting have exploded inside and outside the Beltway in the last 10 years. – Washington, DC.

Oliver Wyman 100

Oliver Wyman Consulting Deloitte Bain 100

Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

In 2004, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) awarded Andy and Prabha the Marketing Science Practice Prize for outstanding implementation of marketing science concepts and methods, recognizing the sales territory alignment system they had developed and implemented through the work of ZS Associates.

Case Interview 100

Case Interview Interviews Sales Pharmaceuticals 100

Management Consulted

JANUARY 18, 2015

Now known to be THE best sourcing, procurement and operations consulting firm in the world, A.T. 1997 – First Global Prize, an annual business school case study competition for potential recruits, awarded. Operations. Mir Aamir - Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer, Coupons.com. Automotive. Communications.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Case Interview McKinsey 100

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Retailers routinely pay credit card companies 3% payment processing fees, while gas stations pay even more. Every time they open the app and spend at least a minute on it, the retailer can pay them a few cents or loyalty points’ worth of store credit, up to a maximum per day. The Marketing Impact of Near-Zero Transaction Costs.

Marketing 129

Marketing Advertising Media Video 129

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Jobvite’s Recruiter Nation Report also says that just 10% of recruiters anticipate automating some jobs in the next 2–3 years (compared to 2015’s 25%). We’ve seen it happen already across manufacturing, food service, and retail operations.

Education 70

Education Recruiting Recruitment Analysis 70

Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2016

Thanks to Bezos’s vision and a highly successful, user-friendly website, by 1997 Amazon.com was the first online retailer to boast one million customers. And, determined to protect its own, India enacted a rigid FDI policy restricting foreign multibrand retailers from selling directly to consumers online. and to other countries.

Retail 70

Retail Productivity Accenture Transportation 70

Management Consulted

JANUARY 15, 2017

Currently, Kalypso LP operates as a subsidiary of Palladius Inc. Kalypso’s day-to-day operations are run by George Young (Chairman), Mick Broekhof (Founding Partner, Head of Kalypso Europe), and Bill Poston (Founding Partner, Managing Director). KALYPSO INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. KALYPSO ORGANIZATION. Practice Areas.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Case Interview Intellectual Property 100

Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

Some companies that made the list were obvious choices; for example, the biggest online retailer now gets most of its profit from cloud services (Amazon). While Amazon has expanded its core retailing platform into new categories, such as food and streaming content, in parallel it has built the world’s largest cloud computing enterprise.

Methodologies 134

Methodologies Culture Company Metrics 134

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

They did much of the work piecing together Mr. Madoff’s money trail and just recently flew over to Puerto Rico for the Puerto Rico Government, who hired FTI to improve operations of utilities and highway units (2014). Retail & Consumer Products. FTI CONSULTING ORGANIZATION. FTI Consulting has a board of 9 directors. Real Estate.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

MAY 11, 2016

They operate platforms that make it easy and efficient for participants to connect and exchange value. Instead, they recruit participants, and then sell each group of participants access to the other group of participants. Westfield Malls operates shopping malls that help retailers and shoppers to get together.

Operations 70

Operations B2B Groups Software 70

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 6, 2015

Combining their industry experience, the pair were forerunners in what became a specialty area in professional services: turnaround management, corporate restructuring and operational performance improvement for companies and stakeholders. ALVAREZ & MARSAL INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. ALVAREZ & MARSAL ORGANIZATION. Healthcare.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Turnaround Case Interview 100

Tom Spencer

MAY 2, 2020

During the recruiting process, it was interesting to hear consultants talk about how much of their job is about conducting learning activities. This is learning that takes place at a third-party learning center rented out or operated by the practice. It may also just be learning about how the practice operates.

Consulting 68

Consulting Operations Recruitment Recruiting 68

Tom Spencer

JUNE 7, 2015

Alex Formstone is a Principal in Marakon ’s London office, and heads up recruiting in the UK for graduates and MBAs. I recently had the good fortune to talk briefly with Alex about his career, Marakon and its recruitment process. Tom: I assume that Marakon uses the case interview as part of its recruitment process?

Case Interview 60

Case Interview Interviews Recruiting Recruitment 60