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The Brattle Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

The Brattle Group is now considered one of the European Union’s top consulting firms in the areas of energy, finance and competition. In 2013, the New York office was established, providing a home base in one the most important finance and legal markets in the world. Product liability. Regulatory finance.

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Health Care Is an Investment, and the U.S. Should Start Treating It Like One

Harvard Business

health care system, ranging from expensive imaging for benign medical conditions to routine pre-operative testing before low-risk surgeries like cataract surgery. Aside from reducing the use of low-value services, one potential solution is to identify and develop sources of long term financing for high-value services.

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The Globalization Backlash Is Reverberating Through Boardrooms

Harvard Business

As a practical matter, for example, these changes in the global policy regime are forcing multinational corporations to scale back and sell parts of their international operations. Imports among the world’s 20 largest economies have fallen as a share of their gross domestic product for four consecutive years. at the forefront.

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What’s Driving Superstar Companies, Industries, and Cities

Harvard Business

We focus on economic profit rather than revenue size, market share, or productivity growth because these other metrics risk including firms that are simply large and may not create economic value. Productivity can help; but it is not enough to achieve superstardom. The link between superstar firms, sectors, and cities is complex.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

For instance, we examined predatory pricing in the airline industry and illegal product tying by Apple, Microsoft, and AT&T. What I found particularly fascinating was the number of variables that needed to be taken into account while making strategic decisions on governance, production or any other function.

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The Questions Executives Should Ask About 3D Printing

Harvard Business

Imagine the changes afoot in the pharmaceutical, medical device, automotive, and consumer electronics industries. For example, printing products on demand would significantly reduce the U.S. What happens, for example, if the value of a product’s underlying intellectual property overtakes its production value?

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From STEM PhD to Federal Consulting: An Interview with Josh

Management Consulted

Well, I grew up in Bethesda, MD, and attended the University of Vermont in Burlington, VT for – BS (finance), MS (nutritional sciences), and PhD (cell and molecular biology). Presently, I am working with a DoD program that is contracting with a company to build and operate a drug/vaccine manufacturing facility.