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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

Some of the major practice areas that the NYC region focuses on are corporate development, corporate finance, digital economy, globalization, growth, information technology, marketing & sales operations, people and organization, post merger integration, risk management, strategy, sustainability, and transformation.

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The Ways Your Brain Manages Overload, and How to Improve Them

Harvard Business

Training your brain for local feedback makes it a more efficient multitasker, allowing it to manage more information and do more tasks as well. It can confer huge benefits. This lightens the load of information deluge. Global feedback means that you reflect on all prior activities.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business

The middle layers spend their entire days in meetings or on conference calls, traveling to meetings outside the hospital, or negotiating contracts with vendors. Patients need to flow through them efficiently or the hospital loses money, often in large amounts. In some larger nonprofit hospitals, there may be six.

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The One Type of Leader Who Can Turn Around a Failing School

Harvard Business

Soldiers like efficiency and order. By background they are normally Information Technology or Chemistry teachers (95% in our study), who have often moved out of the classroom to manage support staff early in their career. In the meantime, buoyed up by an undeserved reputation, the Surgeon has moved on to their next patient.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business

Economic analysis finds that most of this productivity growth is accounted for by a few companies such as Walmart who used information technology to become much more productive. Research suggests that the benefits of information technology depend in part on management.