Management Consulted

AUGUST 28, 2013

He began by helping firms recruit competent executives, acquire new customers, and establish conducive office space. After 2 years, he recruited 2 friends from Chicago and formed the Business Research and Development Company with $500 borrowed from the bank. BOOZ & COMPANY INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. Automotive. Industrials.

Interviews 181

Interviews Culture Company Case Interview 181

Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2017

Jobs in retail, transportation, manufacturing, and agriculture are highly vulnerable to technological change. First, companies, especially those with big brick-and-mortar stores that are being pinched by online retail, can turn their strategically located buildings into stores that benefit communities.

Company 129

Company Retail Transportation Film 129

Effective Managers

JUNE 24, 2024

The potential for bias in AI algorithms, particularly in HR and recruitment processes, is a significant concern. For example, a retail giant might use AI for inventory management and predictive analytics in customer purchasing behavior, leading to reduced operational costs and improved sales.

Ethics 130

Ethics Efficiency Operations ROI 130

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

A few have announced year-end bonuses ( AT&T, Comcast ) or wage increases ( some retailers ). In a world of tight labor markets, where recruiting and retention are at a premium, investing to make frontline employees more productive should be a priority. But most have been reticent to say anything about their plans.

Cash Flow 115

Cash Flow Retail Fashion Efficiency 115

Harvard Business

AUGUST 6, 2018

The right recruiting strategies are crucial. As a job and recruiting site, Glassdoor has a unique vantage into these near real-time migration trends happening among job seekers today, with nearly 40 million reviews and insights on workplace factors at more than 770,000 companies around the world. Movers Are Less Diverse.

Recruitment 123

Recruitment Recruiting Talent Real Estate 123

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. However, as someone who recruited the full two years, I can say that my summer internship was instrumental to my preparedness for consulting recruitment.

Consulting 142

Consulting Recruitment Recruiting 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 rallying cry for new ways of working in the digital age must start at the top. ” Give Employees Direct Access to Consumers.

Media 135

Media Fashion Agile Sales 135

Harvard Business

APRIL 10, 2017

” Databases and job search websites, such as Glassdoor, Indeed, Ladders, and Salary.com are a good starting point, but Lees recommends talking to recruiters and headhunters and others in the industry. She also talked to recruiters and other people in her LinkedIn network to determine her worth. ” Job content.

How To 135

How To Recruitment Recruiting Case Interview 135

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2018

She also explained how the HR department was redoubling its efforts to speed up the recruiting process and add more rigor to interviews to ensure new hires were more likely to be high performers. A large European retail bank modeled this well during an organizational overhaul. Involve Individuals at All Levels.

Interviews 133

Interviews Banking Retail Survey 133

Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

Some of our recent additions to the security team came from unexpected career fields such as retail, education, entertainment, and law. Improve your engagement and outreach: Don’t limit yourself to the same old career fairs and recruiting programs of yesteryear. The two things they all had in common?

Talent 132

Talent Education How To Recruitment 132

Management Consulted

JANUARY 29, 2017

Have you missed the undergraduate recruitment window? Here would be 3 bad ideas: 1) Go into a field that seems related (financial services) and do something that doesn’t use the same skill set – like personal finance, working in a mortgage brokerage, or retail bank.

Consulting 100

Consulting Finance Resumes Healthcare 100

Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2018

In January, fashion retailer H&M came under fire for an advertisement featuring a young black boy in a green hoodie bearing the words “coolest monkey in the jungle.” Over the last year, there has been no shortage of avoidable PR nightmares for leading corporate brands.

How To 119

How To Survey Advertising Recruitment 119

Management Consulted

JANUARY 20, 2014

BEARINGPOINT INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. BearingPoint recruits students from the top business management schools around the world, but has had an inconsistent presence at many due to its own internal drama. If BearingPoint comes to your school to recruit, let us know! Capital Markets. Chemicals & Life Sciences. Government.

BearingPoint 139

BearingPoint Interviews Oliver Wyman Capgemini 139

Harvard Business

JUNE 30, 2017

It has trained and placed 11,000 graduates into entry-level jobs in four sectors: health care, tech, retail/sales, and skilled trades. The metrics we track include: productivity, cost savings in recruitment and training, quality, retention, and speed to promotion.

Training 131

Training Training ROI Metrics 131

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 Recruitment 125

Management Consulted

JANUARY 25, 2016

Popular fields for AlixPartners alum include venture capital, private equity, financial services, investment management and retail. ALIXPARTNERS INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING . Financial Services. Healthcare. Heavy Equipment. Life Sciences. Media & Entertainment. Oil & Gas. Private Equity. Restaurant & Foodservice.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Turnaround Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Director Recruitment and Skills. Recruiting directors with technological expertise is one avenue through which boards can boost their innovative capabilities. apparel, automobiles, retailing, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

Telecommunications 126

Telecommunications Survey Biotechnology Industry 126

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. News of layoffs or companies reporting the deferment of hiring decisions until mid-January.

Recruitment 96

Recruitment Recruiting Talent Case Interview 96

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

retail chains. Conversely, Target hired an outsider who gained experience in other retail firms. Our results suggest that CEOs hired from the outside change the strategy more drastically — be it more or less entrepreneurial — than their internally recruited counterparts.

Research 70

Research Recruiting Recruitment Retail 70

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

Harvard Business

JUNE 22, 2016

We’ve seen how dramatically digital platforms have upended long-established industries across the spectrum from hotels (Airbnb and VRBO) to music (Apple and Pandora) to recruiting (LinkedIn) to retail (Wayfair and Amazon).

How To 123

How To Metrics Pharmaceuticals Hotels 123

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

Successful Independent Consulting

MARCH 15, 2017

Use keywords that recruiters and potential clients may use in their searches. Not using it is like having a corner retail store but putting merchandise in only one of the two windows. Don’t just describe who you are and what you do. Write a headline that contains a benefit to the viewer.

Consulting 150

Consulting How To Advertising Engineering 150

Tom Spencer

JANUARY 18, 2020

Since graduation, I have had the pleasure of working for both a boutique and a large strategy consulting firm and wanted to share my insights on the differences in: Undergraduate recruiting. Undergraduate recruiting. Projects and client types. Workplace culture. Exit opportunities. With that said, why not give both a try?

Consulting 78

Consulting Recruitment Recruiting Case Interview 78

Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2016

Research has shown that music in retail settings can add value to the shopping experience: It can improve the moods of customers, increase engagement, and increase the chances of a purchase. In our case, we recruited students to participate in a 20-round public goods game , placing them in teams of three.

Retail 70

Retail Groups Fashion Research 70

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Excellence in Retail. IBM GBS INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. Consumer Products. Electronics. Energy & Utilities. Financial Markets. Government. Healthcare. Life Sciences. Media and Entertainment. Metals and Mining. Travel and Transportation. Office Locations. Tokyo, Japan. Moscow, Russia. Petersburg, Russia. Ha Noi, Vietnam.

IBM GBS 203

IBM GBS Interviews Consulting Case Interview 203

Harvard Business

JULY 17, 2017

Its recent launch of Marcus , an online retail bank, is a particularly promising signal. But instead of recruiting new talent, many of these institutions are losing people to the tech industry.

Financial 134

Financial Industry Banking Company 134

Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2017

Corporate job openings pull in about 250 résumés apiece, and over half of surveyed recruiters say shortlisting qualified candidates is the most difficult part of their job. Retail shelf analysis. Hiring the right people.

Company 134

Company Software Data Sports 134

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 130

Marketing Advertising Media Video 130

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

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 Recruitment Recruiting Analysis 70

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. The third factor is, which country?

Industry 79

Industry Consulting Oliver Wyman McKinsey 79

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. Generally, recruiters will make their demands for previous experience or knowledge crystal clear.

Case Interview 78

Case Interview Interviews Consulting Case Study 78

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

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.

Management 130

Management Change Management Culture Leadership 130

Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

For one recruitment-process-outsourcing client, consultants found that the existing process involved the same data being checked by several teams in different countries. The first, Lloyds Banking Group, the largest retail and commercial bank in the UK, is currently deploying enterprise-wide RPA rollout as part of its end-to-end $4.1

Company 136

Company Process Improvement Case Interview Banking 136

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 Recruitment Recruiting 60