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Ethical Implications of AI in Consulting: A Deep Dive

Tom Spencer

AI systems are only as unbiased as the data they are trained on, and if the data is biased, the AI will reflect that bias. Take for example an AI system that is trained on data from a specific geographic region, let’s say a wealthy city in the United States.

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Why Doctors Need Leadership Training

Harvard Business

Even though medical institutions have designated “leadership” as a core medical competency , leadership skills are rarely taught and reinforced across the continuum of medical training. In medicine, physicians not only begin managing and directing teams early in their careers, but they rise through the ranks uniformly.

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Government Contracts Pricing Strategy – Ten Dynamic and Synergistic Pricing Practices

Granite Leadership Strategies

And that training does not have to cost a great deal of money or time. If you want to invest in your pricing team to pay you great dividends, this is an important expenditure of company training. For example, a pricing lead may also take a turn in finance assessing indirect rate impacts.

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Conversation with Marakon

Tom Spencer

You would be expected to manage the junior client interactions for example working with the finance or marketing team, and be given opportunities to present work to senior business leaders. Tom: What kind of training and mentoring can graduates expect to receive at Marakon? How does finance link to strategy and basic accounting?

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Management Consulting versus Investment Banking

Management Consulted

The cons of investment banking – the long hours, the repetitive and unengaging nature of the work, the lack of non-finance exit opportunities – mattered far more to me than a 6-figure salary. Call me biased, but I received the best years of business training possible in my time at McKinsey. 3 SKILL DEVELOPMENT.

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Five Things You Need to Know about Heartbleed

Women in Consulting

If you have good passwords for your online bank/finance accounts and you don’t share those passwords with, say, Facebook ( you don’t, do you? ), those are probably okay. This is an interactive video conference series exploring how to “set up shop” taught by members of the non-profit Women In Consulting. It starts May 1, 2014.

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Is Writing a Business Book Worth the Trouble?

Emerson Consulting Group

which transforms business consultants, CEOs, attorneys, finance experts and other business leaders and their companies into published “thought leaders.” Ken Lizotte CMC is Chair of the CEO Club of Boston, a branch of CEO Clubs International, and Chief Imaginative Officer (CIO) of emerson consulting group inc.,