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How an Airplane Laptop Ban Would Expose Company Data to Espionage

Harvard Business

Millions of global travelers are anxiously awaiting the answer to this question. government received credible intelligence that ISIS had developed the capability to conceal explosive devices within laptops, tablets, and other large electronic devices, these devices have been banned, as of late March, from the airline cabins of U.S.

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Analysis Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Analysis Group’s initial focus was on mergers and acquisitions before moving into other areas such as intellectual property and antitrust. The firm’s ethos, as evidenced by their bent toward advanced degrees, is a blend of academia and business litigation through economic research. Intellectual Property.

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

As consulting firms go, FTI Consulting is a newcomer – but at just over 30 years old, the firm has made impressive strides to become one of the most respected name in legal analysis and data-driven research to support major initiatives for law firms, banks and the majority of the Fortune 500. Intellectual property.

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Industry-Academic Partnerships Can Solve Bigger Problems

Harvard Business

But that’s the goal of Saint-Gobain Research India (SGRI), an organization employing over a hundred scientists in the sprawling IIT-Madras Research Park, recently rated India’s top engineering school. In a country where academia and industry usually tread separate paths, it’s unusual to see the two innovate together.

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NERA Economic Consulting Interviews – Moving Up in a Down Economy

Management Consulted

NERA helps companies predict likely lawsuits and litigation, which anyone would think valuable – but it doesn’t make them the darling of the advisory industry, especially when analysis or research predicts bad news. NERA (National Economic Research Associates), Inc. Headquarters: New York, NY. Size: 515 (2013).

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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. In order to understand this shift, we need to better understand how it developed. Today, we are seeing companies with core intellectual properties (IPs) emerging out of Africa.

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Getting the Most from Consultants: The E-Tender System Sucks

Confessions of a Consultant

For example, Tandem Consulting won an open competition for a Management Development contract in a semi-State company. Unclear Specifications: In the Management Development proposal cited the specification was crystal clear. Organization development projects are not like supplying stationary; there are enormous variables.

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