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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Intellectual property. 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). They aim to help companies protect enterprise value. Intellectual Property.

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Research: Self-Disruption Can Hurt the Companies That Need It the Most

Harvard Business

In the traditional model of electricity generation, large power plants produce power at a centralized location, which operates at a considerable distance from the points of consumption. And firms operating in more competitive markets incurred approximately $600M higher cost of self-disruption than those in less competitive markets.

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business

Think of E as Enterprise Value. In a traditional business, there is little connectivity or co-creation, so the enterprise value is equal to the “mass” of the company — its human resources, financial assets, intellectual property, and physical goods. Intellectual capital.

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How to Set Up an AI R&D Lab

Harvard Business

The moment a hyped-up new technology garners mainstream attention, many businesses will scramble to incorporate it into their enterprise. The companies that invest in research that adapts machine learning to their industry will generate extremely valuable intellectual property (IP). Paper Boat Creative/Getty Images.

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How CEOs Can Make Smart Strategic Trade-Offs

Harvard Business

Diminishing cycle times, rapidly changing intellectual property and fast R&D allow competition to catch up quickly on any breakthrough, so even the most valuable innovations can see their price premium drop rapidly. Leadership is changing — fast. Responding rapidly to opportunity versus ensuring high quality.

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Leading in a World Without Secrets

Harvard Business

It should now be dawning on us that they also reflect a new reality when it comes to keeping legitimate business secrets, requiring a new mindset and strategies from those leading all kinds of enterprises, especially in knowledge-intensive industries. The primary driver of this new reality is not technical, but economic.

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A Short History of Radio Explains the iPhone’s Success

Harvard Business

Owned by the Chicago Federation of Labor, which purchased the station, in 1926, for $250,000, the enterprise aimed to publicize its point of view. The firm had been buying his intellectual property with stock. “Natural monopoly” was jettisoned as the operative assumption. president) and his regulatory minions.