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How to Win Your Consulting Case Competition

Tom Spencer

For example, if a case is related to business, it is likely to involve questions about finance and accounting, strategy, and marketing. You might choose a finance major, a marketing major, and a sociology major. What is the logical flow of our presentation? Thus, it is useful to find people that have skill sets in those areas.

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Behavioral Economics and Behavioral Finance Manifesto

Steve Shu Consulting

As 2014 comes to a close, I’ve been reflecting on various books, presentations, research, tools and solutions, software and applications that I’ve been involved with and organizations I’ve been consulting to over the years. Behavioral Economics General Management Innovation Behavioral Finance Behavioral Science Nudge'

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Why Do Management Consulting Firms Hire MBAs?

Steve Shu Consulting

Prior to my current role, I spent many years in the traditional management consulting space. As I see it, the traditional segment of the management consulting industry values MBAs primarily because it facilitates a plug-and-play kind of model where people are interchangeable and can start working on a broad swathe of business problems.

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Consultants’ Conference Features Innovative Open Space Technology

IMC USA

Consultants’ Conference Features Innovative Open Space Technology. Consult-Con is IMC USA’s annual international consulting conference that takes place on October 4-6, 2019, at the Dallas/Addison Marriott Quorum by the Galleria. The theme of the 2019 Consult-Con conference is Vroom! Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

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Consulting Ethics Challenges

The Consultants Peer Group

Where’s the lead sentence of my March 28, 2023 Blog, Consulting Ethics Concern Once Again , “Lack of consulting ethics once again. I went on to describe some recent consulting ethics lapses and proposed fixes. It doesn’t have to be but here are my thoughts.”

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Want to Start a Consulting Business? 10 Reasons Why You Should!

Consulting Matters

This year marked my official 10 year anniversary of starting my own consulting business. It was back in 2010 when I officially launched my website and grew my consulting business from $0-$300,000 in the first 18 months. My youngest was two about turn three and this was my last chance to be a more present mom. I could write.

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Dr. Tony Alessandra Opens Consult-Con 2018 with Strategic Business Development for Consultants

IMC USA

Consult-Con 2018 takes place on October 5-7, 2018, at the San Diego Marriott Mission Hills in San Diego, California. Consult-Con 2018 takes place on October 5-7, 2018, at the San Diego Marriott Mission Hills in San Diego, California. The IMC USA mission is to promote excellence and ethics in management consulting.