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Understanding Volume and Price

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If there is too much volume bought or sold at too high or too low a price, the finances of the entire company can rocket or plummet. Consultants often offer advice on how to cut costs and therefore drive profits up as well as analyse sales and stocks to work out the most efficient ways of selling products.

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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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Conflict-of-Interest Rules Are Holding Back Medical Breakthroughs

Harvard Business

Few issues are more foundational to driving improvements in human health than creating productive, progressive relationships between clinical medicine and the biopharmaceutical industry. “Thou shall not” is the starting point for almost all academic institutions’ conflict-of-interest policy statements. Practicing physicians.

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

Harvard Business

There is an abundance of high-quality comparative effectiveness data for pharmaceuticals, largely because of the drug approval process, but there’s less data on the value of other expensive investments into health, such as doctor visits and hospitalizations. (For

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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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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.

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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?