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2016 Top 10 U.S. MBA programs for Management Consulting

Management Consulted

With that in mind, we compiled the 2016 Top 10 U.S Its graduates are also known for their excellent quant skills, without which you won’t last a day as a consultant, as well as a firm grasp on international markets. The post 2016 Top 10 U.S. MBA programs for Management Consulting – and the results may surprise you.

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Big Data in Marketing – It Is Here To Stay

Tom Spencer

This is especially important for marketers whose job is to connect consumers and products. In some ways, the use of Big Data in marketing is only continuing and extending a trend that has been going on for many years already: market-oriented marketing. Big Data helps them to do exactly that.

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How Value Is Shifting in the Capital Markets Ecosystem

BCG

Article Tuesday, May 17, 2016. The capital markets ecosystem, as a whole, thrived in 2015. Asset managers, hedge funds, high-frequency traders, exchanges, information service providers, clearing-houses, infrastructure firms, and custodians, for example, all have critical roles. See Exhibit 1.)

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Global Payments 2016: Competing in Open Seas

BCG

Report Monday, September 26, 2016. At the top of the collective agenda in 2016 is the digitization of payments, which has come with more than its share of hype. This year’s Global Payments report, BCG’s 14th annual study of the industry, addresses these dynamics across the various payments-related businesses.

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Impact of Data Analytics in Consulting

Tom Spencer

Creating transparency: Value is created when data is made accessible to relevant stakeholders in a timely manner, for example, in manufacturing if data from research and development, engineering and manufacturing is integrated to enable concurrent engineering. This can significantly cut time in the market and improve quality.

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What Makes Family Businesses in Emerging Markets So Different?

BCG

Article Thursday, September 08, 2016. In some emerging markets, more than half of the largest companies are family businesses. Yet, for decades, most of the research on family businesses has focused on benchmarks from developed markets. Emerging markets present a distinctive context for operating a family business.

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Will Cognitive Computing Disrupt the High-Skill Labor Market?

Tom Spencer

In January 2016, IBM announced a collaboration with SBRH, which gave Pepper a cognitive computing system named Watson which allowed her to understand sophisticated semantic context through natural language processing and process a humongous volume of data including “dark”, or unstructured, data from social media, video, images and text.