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What is consulting?

Tom Spencer

Some people also call consulting a ‘talk-job’ – you go to the clients, you talk about what the ideal world scenario would be for a particular project, product or market, and your billable hours are sorted. Sales, Marketing, Production) and secondary functions (e.g. Finance, HR, Supply Chain, ICT, Legal).

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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

Compensation and benefits are on par to the market, but not adjusted for NYC living (so for take-home pay you might be better off in Atlanta or Dallas as a young McKinseyite, unless the magnetic draw to the Big Apple is just too much). With HQ in New York, firm practices are based on the EVA methodology.

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Can Impact Investing Avoid the Failures of Microfinance?

Harvard Business

Impact investors over the past decade largely focused on proving that impact investments could achieve a “market rate” or above return profile. Making something wildly profitable will of course attract the attention of financial markets, and thus increase the chances it will scale effectively. By 2010, they had succeeded.

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The Hidden Costs of Initial Coin Offerings

Harvard Business

In recent years, much has been written about how the Blockchain is poised to transform traditional industries such as banking, real estate, and healthcare. To generate publicity that allows them to solicit broad feedback on their beta product. Today, Ethereum’s market capitalization is $24 billion.

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7 Factors of Great Office Design

Harvard Business

To support Adobe’s analytical and data-driven culture, we worked closely with their real estate team, which collects and analyzes data about their workspaces, and got feedback from employees on the seven attributes above as a key part of planning process.

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Design Thinking Is Fundamentally Conservative and Preserves the Status Quo

Harvard Business

The criticisms are several: that design thinking is poorly defined ; that the case for its use relies more on anecdotes than data; that it is little more than basic commonsense, repackaged and then marketed for a hefty consulting fee.