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Going into Consulting in a World Changed by COVID-19

Tom Spencer

Any recessions brought on by COVID-19 will have effects that persist at least through 2020. If we learned anything from the 2008 financial crisis, it is fair to say that in lean times private sector organizations have less resources available to invest in consulting. Consulting projects will probably change.

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Save Lives vs. Save the Economy

CaseInterview.com

Prior to 2008, the financial sector grew way beyond enabling the rest of the economy. The investment banking sector became so big, so powerful, and so profitable that it started recruiting talent out of other industries. In the months after the stock market crash of 2008, many of those rocket scientists were laid off.

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We May Not Have a Clear Path, But We Each Have One

Harmonious Workplaces

I also handled recruitment, payroll, inventory management, and other store operations. In 2009, the recession from 2008 forced me to pivot, sell the business, and reenter consulting full-time. In 2020, I enrolled at Purdue Global to begin my academic journey in I-O Psychology.

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Lead to the future: leadership imperatives for success

Brimstone Consulting

2020 has been replete with inspiring stories of organizations acting quickly to address immediate needs. A 2020 study found that most leaders (84%) feel their vision for the future is aligned with the organization. Build Agility. Breweries pivoted to making hand sanitizers. It is not a special project or something like that.

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Robo-Advisers Are Coming to Consulting and Corporate Strategy

Harvard Business

Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. ZB by 2020. Will robo-advisors disrupt corporate capital allocation the same way they have personal capital allocation? 300 billion today.

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The H-1B Visa Debate, Explained

Harvard Business

The H-1B Visa Process The H-1B visa was established, as part of the Immigration Act of 1990, to let companies recruit trained foreign workers (with at least a bachelor’s degree or the equivalent) to work in “specialty occupations” for which there are few qualified local candidates. jobs overall.)