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What is consulting?

Tom Spencer

This might include advice on asset management, tax structuring, or capital structuring to reduce financing costs and sources of risk (e.g. Seeing that the nature of strategy consulting differs from the other more implementation and operational driven areas, strategy consultants generally have a different profile than their peers.

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Sustainable Aviation: Emerging Trends and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

These include offsetting greenhouse gas production by purchasing carbon credits, investing in more efficient gas turbine engines, using sustainable aviation fuel, and manufacturing with novel materials and 3D printing methods. When it comes to understanding the carbon footprint of these aircraft, the primary culprit is the engine.

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The Top 8 Undergrad Consulting Majors

Management Consulted

Engineering (Mechanical Engineering is the most operationally focused). Engineering majors are known as beasts at Excel, which is fundamentally the most important hard skill you will need for consulting (on day one, the best analysts at Bain were absolutely the engineers – until the rest of us could catch up).

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Big Data: An Opportunity for Data Scientists & Data Analysts

Tom Spencer

Many of the world’s thought leaders believe that data will unlock a huge transformation in the way that businesses operate and thrive in the 21st Century. Prateek Natani is an Associate Consultant at KPMG, and completed a Computer Science Engineering degree in June 2020. Data Proliferation. Required Skills.

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What is Project Accounting?

Progressus

For project-centric companies such as consulting firms, architect and engineering firms or software publishers, the term project accounting takes on a whole new meaning. Achieving Your Project Management Goals with Progressus Project Accounting Progressus Project Accounting allows project-based businesses to take control of project finances.

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How Industrial Firms Invest in Renewable Energy, Affordably

Harvard Business

Under this financing structure, the company contracts to buy kilowatts, not the turbines and panels. It sounds like an easy win-win, but industrial companies have had a harder time making it all work for two key reasons: costs and accounting. Manufacturers like Dow and Owens Corning are showing it can work for industrials as well.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

I begged my favorite Econ teacher to let me into his Industrial Organization course and fortunately I got a spot. Half of the class was devoted to examining different models and learning the game theory behind strategic decision making; in the remainder of the class, we applied that knowledge and analyzed different industries.