A job description

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Some of the shared characteristics of our successful hires include:…..

Many PhD students could say ‘I can do that’

 

Responsibilities

- Arranging and conducting interviews with senior executives, academics, and industry experts in search of best practices
- Conducting significant amounts of secondary research and documenting those findings
- Analyzing business problems using root cause analysis, hypothesis generation, survey design, benchmarking, and other qualitative and quantitative methods
- Presenting interview and research findings to senior managers: verbally, and in writing
- Creation of research deliverables, including essays, executive summaries, case studies, essay graphics, presentations, and speeches; significant contribution to the idea generation of the team—framing both research questions and preliminary answers
- Assisting with program and research agenda development
- Supporting the team through other tasks such as scheduling interviews, coordinating meetings and teleconferences, and preparing research materials and summaries for the team.

Qualifications

Some of the shared characteristics of our successful hires include:

- Experience conducting primary and secondary research
- Curiosity for exploring the frontier of knowledge regarding corporate growth strategies
- Excellent oral communication skills and demonstrated ability to conduct research interviews
- Strong writing skills and experience creating graphical representations of data
- Ability to locate and procure sensitive data from original sources and senior executives
- High proficiency in distilling massive amounts of data into important relevance for senior managers
- Ability to analyze quantitative and qualitative data
- Strong project management and time management skills
- Ability to work either independently or in a team environment, depending on the task at hand