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Management Consulted Goes to London (and Beyond)

Management Consulted

Arriving at LSE, we were met with bad news: the film club was in our room. As if traveling across the ocean on the plane wasn’t enough, we felt it necessary to use as many forms of transportation as necessary…so we took a train up to Durham University. We had such a great time cracking case questions with our participants.

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When a Prototype Isn’t Enough, Use Theatrical Tricks to Sell Your Idea

Harvard Business

It uses all the tricks of theater and film to fool an audience into believing that what they are seeing, hearing, or even touching is the real thing. This was a case where real-life testing was impossible; a poor prototype could endanger human lives. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). It’s all staged.

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Why Uber and Airbnb Needed a Different Kind of CEO

Harvard Business

Since their founding less than a decade ago, Uber and Airbnb have wrangled with regulators, challenged the taxi and hotel industries, earned extraordinary valuations from venture capital investors — and fundamentally transformed the way people think about urban transportation and travel.

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