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Flying High: How to Build Travel Rewards as a Consultant

Tom Spencer

If you are transitioning into consulting from school or a job in industry or government, you will likely begin traveling more than ever. Sure, maybe you have gone to a few conferences or travelled to your company’s annual meeting, but once you begin a consulting career you will be on the road much more frequently than before.

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Location, Location: Choosing the Right Office for You

Tom Spencer

For example, if you are an engineer or a scientist, you might be limited to a specific location that performs the work you are trained to conduct. In engineering, there are specialties such as biomechanics, thermal fluids, or material science. In consulting just as in real estate, location is crucial. The Bottom Line.

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What is consulting?

Tom Spencer

When people think of consultants, they tend to visualize professionally suited employees, degrees from the best schools, high pay-checks and fancy travel stories. Consultants specialized in forensic research and litigation support also fall under the Financial Advisory segment.

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Why Business Leaders Need to Read More Science Fiction

Harvard Business

Infomocracy , by governance researcher Malka Older, explores how software could change our public institutions through the social and technical engineering of elections. Like international travel or meditation, it creates space for us to question our assumptions. It’s useful because it reframes our perspective on the world.

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Brain Drain and Capital Flight: 64% of Wealthy Chinese Plan to Leave China

MishTalk

And Chinese nationals are leaving in vast waves: Last year, more than 100 million outbound travelers crossed the frontiers. Still, the sheer volume of China''s outbound travel these days, and its massive economic impact, gives it new leverage. Today, China''s borders are wide open. Almost anybody who wants a passport can get one.

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Carl the Robot Bartender Mixes Drinks and Chats With Customers

MishTalk

Patrick Housing Crash News Top Housing and Commercial Real Estate News. Bay Area Real Estate Trends. Hes handy with a shot glass and customers travel from far and wide to admire him at work. The robot is the creation of mechatronics engineer Ben Schaefer, who has spent 23 years working in the field.

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How Microsoft Used an Office Move to Boost Collaboration

Harvard Business

Beginning in the Spring of 2016, our workplace analytics group worked with commercial real estate company CBRE to calculate the cost savings associated with relocating a 1,200-person Microsoft engineering organization from five buildings into four other buildings.