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Top 10 Consulting Firms in the Middle East

Management Consulted

Dubai is one of the firm’s newest offices, and for good reason – the city is a hot spot for tourism, real estate investment, trade, transportation, and financial services. If you have an MBA and are interested in actuarial work, EY’s Middle East operation is a great place to get your foot in the door.

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Sustainable Aviation: Emerging Trends and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

While electric vehicles are already replacing conventional automobiles, no electric aircraft is ready for large scale commercial production that can usher in a sustainable revolution in aerospace. management consulting firms) produce high levels of carbon dioxide emissions that cannot otherwise be reduced. Carbon Credits. Other Trends.

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How Companies, Governments, and Nonprofits Can Create Social Change Together

Harvard Business

Customers overwhelmingly prefer products tied to a social cause. In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. Capital markets, as a whole, are also moving in this direction. We believe the answer is yes.

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What to Know About Doing Business in Iran

Harvard Business

Compared to most oil-rich countries in the Middle East, Iran has a diversified economy, its tourism sector is on the verge of a major windfall, and threats to its political stability are in decline. There are some exemptions for humanitarian-designated sectors, such as agriculture, food products, health care, and civil aviation.).

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Selling Products Is Good. Selling Projects Can Be Even Better

Harvard Business

In the beginning companies sold products. A focus on products means a focus on selling running shoes. Selling products limits the revenues you can make from clients: Unless you are innovating and continually updating your product offering, customer attrition tends to be high, and incentivizing repurchases can be hard.

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How Multinationals Should Be Planning for Brexit

Harvard Business

If the supplier had used its 2016–2017 sales data, which showed greater demand for its products as a result of the boom in UK tourism, to predict future results and set next year’s strategy, it may have overestimated future performance and ended up with too much inventory, higher costs, and pressure to discount heavily to move product.

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The Real Challenge to Turkey’s Economy Isn’t Terrorism

Harvard Business

This still renders Turkey as a good base of operations for many international businesses that are invested in the Middle East, Balkans, and the Caucasus – inherently high-risk areas. But it does help explain how the country has so far managed to insulate its economy. Even so, more than 8 million tourists visited Turkey last year.

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