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Hate Your Commute Now? It's Going to Get Worse

MishTalk

Liz and I traveled this past Labor Day weekend. Unions and prevailing wage laws massively drive up construction costs. the construction, alteration, or repair of public buildings or public. ENGI = International Union of Operating Engineers. operators of various types of power equipment). Davis-Bacon Background.

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The Top 8 Undergrad Consulting Majors

Management Consulted

A fun fact – Jenny Rae was an economics major at UVA, but famously decided to shave her head and travel the world after graduation (yeah, her parents were really proud). If all you have is trading, investment, and financial experience on your resume, the firms will wonder how interested you are in business operations.

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Return of the Buggy Whip; Streetcar Named Imprudent

MishTalk

At the peak of streetcar travel in the mid-1920s, some 800 streetcars covering 200 miles of track carried 97 million passenger trips a year. Tucson''s $196 million Sun Link Streetcar Project, recently named the Public Works Project of the Year by the American Public Works Association, will operate on a 3.9-mile

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From STEM PhD to Federal Consulting: An Interview with Josh

Management Consulted

This provided me with a steady income, a flexible schedule to travel and train and also helped me tap into my “inner entrepreneur” (I have started three businesses since this experience). Presently, I am working with a DoD program that is contracting with a company to build and operate a drug/vaccine manufacturing facility.

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What CEOs Get Wrong About Activist Investors

Harvard Business

As the tension built, the chance of working together positively and constructively to add value for the benefit of all shareholders slipped away. One popular view of activists is that they are short-term, cut-and-run operators who are looking for a quick profit. Think Positive: Where Does the Activist Fit as a Shareholder?

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Dispute, litigation and investigations services for construction industry. They did much of the work piecing together Mr. Madoff’s money trail and just recently flew over to Puerto Rico for the Puerto Rico Government, who hired FTI to improve operations of utilities and highway units (2014). Construction. Litigation technology.

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Why African Entrepreneurship Is Booming

Harvard Business

As one travels from Nairobi to Lagos and from Dakar to Kigali, a feeling of optimistic exuberance emerges because African-inspired institutions are forming. That opened opportunities for local companies like Lagos-based AppZone and Nairobi-based Craft Silicon , both fintech companies, to expand operations across the continent.