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Consultant, Contractor, Freelancer - Labels Matter!

Successful Independent Consulting

By contrast, professional independent consultants operate as microbusinesses. Freelancers use artistic or technical skill to generate work products. Like independent consultants, they often operate as microbusinesses, and are hired as independent contractors rather than employees.

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Bridgespan Non-Profit Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Bridgespan was birthed out of Bain’s desire to expand its support of nonprofits. In 2000, the group launched its first website, www.bridgespan.org, and started operations from a Boston-based office. BRIDGESPAN HISTORY . Bridgespan is the offspring of none other than consulting industry giant Bain & Company.

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Charting your consulting career direction

Tom Spencer

Management consultants get the opportunity to work on challenging real world problems for companies, governments and nonprofits. For those who have an interest in specific industries as well as how they operate, consulting can offer you unique access to key decision makers and real time data. Exit opportunities.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms in Washington, DC

Management Consulted

Although historically not known for consulting services (unless you were consulting – ahem, lobbying – government officials), strategy, operations, and even tech consulting have exploded inside and outside the Beltway in the last 10 years. – Washington, DC.

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Even Life-Saving Innovations Don’t Sell Themselves

Harvard Business

Most businesses wouldn’t survive without driving demand for their products or services, either through marketing and advertising or through involving users so deeply in the design of the product that word of mouth spurs adoption. The same is true for social innovators. But even the most needed innovation does not sell itself.

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From STEM PhD to Federal Consulting: An Interview with Josh

Management Consulted

A few years later I was recruited for a position by one of the government consulting companies who had previously made me a contingent offer. Presently, I am working with a DoD program that is contracting with a company to build and operate a drug/vaccine manufacturing facility.

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Career Bankers Alone Can’t Solve the Financial Industry’s Problems

Harvard Business

Most think banks are part of an elite establishment that’s lost sight of the broader mission to serve customers and would prefer they operate more like nonprofits. It no longer makes sense for banks to be run and operated exclusively by career bankers.