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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. For that reason, management consultants form the vast majority in the advisory branch – more than half of all advisors can be defined as a management consultant.

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Embracing Experiential Learning

Tom Spencer

In experiential learning, you learn skills such as communication, project management, and teamwork. These skills are very much aligned with the work you would be doing after graduation such as in management consulting or any industry position. Experiential learning is the idea that you can learn by doing. Opportunities on-campus.

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Here’s what to think about When Creating a Forward-Looking ESG Strategy

Brimstone Consulting

Also critical is considering ESG from the following strategic perspectives: risk management, competitive advantage, compliance and regulation, and stakeholder perspective. Risk management The demand for corporate accountability, transparency, and sustainability has never been greater.

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Technology Ain’t Going to Solve Your Problems

Markovitz Consulting

I was at a conference for internet retailers two weeks ago and was overwhelmed by the software and hardware solutions promising to solve all their operational problems and turn their ecommerce businesses into a highly profitable, eight figure monsters. Technology is not a panacea for your operational ills. They’re lying.

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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

They operate in a bubble and do not attend the party. All lights were off except a spotlight on the presenting manager and the CEO’s reading light. A finance executive said this of the decades-old corporate attitude, “We are GM. hours a week on people management issues. This CEO sat up in the stands.

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Want To Be On The Leading Edge? Forget About It.

Markovitz Consulting

Here are a few areas that are probably creating lethal operational drag on the corporate ship. At this level, managers are consumed with the chaos of daily operations, and seldom have any understanding—or bandwidth—to execute on the lofty strategic goals pronounced in the C-Suite. Problem: lack of clarity around strategy.

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Emergence of Formal Behavioral Insights Teams and Initiatives

Steve Shu Consulting

Although still early, behavioral insights and the application of behavioral economics principles have been going global in the public policy space. Execution of the operating model could include building a behavioral team, outsourcing, augmenting, or partnering. Operating Model Development.

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