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Consulting as a Contractor: The Rise of Self-Employment

Tom Spencer

Over the years, many leading organizations have struggled to retain top talent. Since companies compete to attract and retain top talent, these shifts in how the workplace is organised are likely to persist. In 2017, Warton published an article that highlighted the rise of contractual workers in both the private and public sectors.

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Why Preventing Disruption in 2017 Is Harder Than It Was When Christensen Coined the Term

Harvard Business

Asset-light businesses are not financed with debt. They’re financed with equity—in other words, a stake in the company. When you could finance growth with debt, large companies had enormous advantages if they could incentivize managers to embrace disruption (largely by creating new business units).

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What Investors Need to Know About Zimbabwe After Mugabe

Harvard Business

After being denounced for years for its dictatorship and destructive economic policies, Zimbabwe entered a new chapter in November 2017, following the military’s removal of president Robert Mugabe, who ruled the country for 37 years. ALEXANDER JOE/Getty Images.

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Top Consulting Firms

CaseInterview.com

It was ranked #3 best place to work on Glassdoor in 2018 and 2017. Bain& Company was the #1 best-ranked place to work in 2019 according to Glassdoor and #1 in North America in 2017. Career progression is linear, with a focus on developing young talent. LEK operates in an intense, associate-heavy case team structure.

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Uber Is Finally Realizing HR Isn’t Just for Recruiting

Harvard Business

But with the departures of a number of high-level HR leaders in late 2016, head of operations Ryan Graves largely took on the head HR role in addition to his other duties. As Pete Ramstad and I note in Beyond HR , leaders often have far better developed frameworks for the value proposition of the finance function than for HR.

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Case Study: Is Holacracy for Us?

Harvard Business

But Rogier thought it was the key to boosting engagement and performance, and he had hinted that he might use Contect’s 2017 annual all-employee meeting—his chance to announce new goals and celebrate the previous year’s accomplishments—to roll out the change. And here’s to an even better 2017!”

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60 Countries’ Digital Competitiveness, Indexed

Harvard Business

Based on their stock prices on July 6, 2017 , Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook were the five most valuable companies in the world. Digital players wield outsize market power. The most valuable non-American company, 7th overall, was China’s e-commerce giant, Alibaba Group. Innovation and change.