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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. There are three main types of business consultants.

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Are You Overly Enamored?

Martinka Consulting

We think) our house is worth more than the market says it is, so is our car, and what about the following three business things? What about service providers who get hung up on their methodology? In other words, don’t fall in love with your methodology, figure out what your client’s problem is and fix it. Time is an illusion.

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Data Can Do for Change Management What It Did for Marketing

Harvard Business

Housing market price changes can be more accurately predicted from analysis of Google searches than by a team of expert real estate forecasters. There has been a rapid uptake in health care, consumer marketing, crime reduction, agriculture, scientific research, and many other areas.

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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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Housing Affordability: How Does the US compare to Canada, China, Australia, Japan, Ireland, UK

MishTalk

"For the second year in a row, the United States had the most affordable housing among major metropolitan markets, with a moderately affordable Median Multiple of 3.6. Three national markets were severely unaffordable, with Median Multiples of 5.1 Three other markets had Median Multiples of 8.0 New Zealand, at 8.2

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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. What is often less appreciated is that this methodology is equally valuable for entrepreneurs. Today, Ethereum’s market capitalization is $24 billion.

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