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Consulting or Banking

Tom Spencer

This post provides you with a high level comparison of management consulting and investment banking. People in the “investment banking” or “corporate finance” division typically help large organisations undertake merges and acquisitions. In stark contrast, it is normal for consultants to travel up to 80% of the time.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

“I am competitive in nature and always give the best in whatever I do and my passions include photography, travelling and embracing new cultures and languages. Consultants get to travel quite a lot and meet different kinds of people and this makes them diverse and enables them to have insights, which others can only strive for.

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Pay your team right: A comprehensive guide to compensation

Asamby Consulting

This blog post gives you the comprehensive answer: Why compensation is important How to structure your fixed salary components What options for variable pay are there How to pick the right perks and benefits What allowances are and what to pay them for What long-term incentives are out there How strategy and finance influence compensation Let's go!

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Zero-Based Budgeting Is Not a Wonder Diet for Companies

Harvard Business

In comparison to other methods (such as Six Sigma or activity-based costing), ZBB typically does not address operational excellence in core processes (marketing, sales, supply chain, procurement, manufacturing) or fundamental cost drivers such as portfolio complexity, organizational complexity, customer complaints, and quality issues.

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Virtual and Augmented Reality Will Reshape Retail

Harvard Business

One customer might try on shirts without having to travel to the store. By comparison, AR overlays virtual elements onto the real world as seen through a smartphone or tablet. But investment in the sector is hot, with AR and VR startups raising $658 million in equity financing last year. VR and AR are emerging technologies.

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Is Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel a Friend of Taxpayers or Businesses? Or is Chicago Like France?

MishTalk

Ride-share companies can’t own vehicles – or help drivers buy them One provision of the ordinance says that the operator of a ride-share service cannot “own, provide financing for the obtaining, leasing, or ownership of, or have a beneficial interest in transportation network vehicles.” Unfortunately, the answer is yes, if not worse.

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A New Way for Entrepreneurs to Think About IT

Harvard Business

Companies can also rent their business applications (for accounting and finance, human resource management, marketing and sales, collaboration, project management, and so forth) on-demand from companies like Microsoft, Salesforce.com, Workday, Hubspot, Yammer, Dropbox, Basecamp and others. Need travel information or services?