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Quote Your Consulting Billing Rate with Confidence

Successful Independent Consulting

Benchmark so you know your rate is reasonable. Also, the larger the firm, the more overhead the billing rate needs to cover such as partner salaries and bonuses, real estate, advertising, and training. The tactics in this article will help if you bill by the hour or by the day. There are lots of ways to do this.

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How Companies Can Use the Data They Collect to Further the Public Good

Harvard Business

It can help real estate investors understand where gentrification might occur. When deciding whether and how to use your data, it’s crucial to take the time to understand whether it has real value relative to the information people already have access to. Start by looking for the best data available.

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Home Prices Drop in 69 of 70 Chinese Cities; Did the Pool of Greater Fools Run Out?

MishTalk

percent from a year earlier, narrowing for a ninth month in a row, China’s biggest real estate website owner said. The average new-home price in 100 cities tracked by SouFun Holdings Ltd. percent in September from August, dropping for the fifth consecutive month. The price rose 1.1

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Singapore Set for Icelandic-Style Property Bubble Meltdown; Hype or Reality?

MishTalk

Singapore’s booming finance and real estate-focused economy has earned it the moniker “The Switzerland of Asia”, and finance professionals from all over the world are flocking to work there to take refuge from the hard-hit financial sectors in their home countries. Fed Funds Rate for the purpose of minimizing large swings in the U.S.

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The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business

And what are the benchmarks of success? The global real estate company Jones Lang LaSalle [JLL] is one of a number of business-to-business companies I studied that was able to make a successful transition across the levels just discussed. Q: How long does this process generally take? It doesn’t happen overnight.

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Private Equity’s New Phase

Harvard Business

Following the real estate metaphor, the PE company is less like a house flipper and more like a property developer: each separate home is designed, built, bought, and sold as an independent property. Though autonomous, they can improve their operating capabilities and speed up their time to reinvention by learning from each other.

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Pettis on Strains in China's Banking System; Avoiding the Fall

MishTalk

While the benchmark deposit rate was officially lowered from 3.00% to 2.75%, the upper limit that banks can pay for deposits remained unchanged at 3.30%. It may seem strange to have both a benchmark rate and a “floating range” that establishes a cap, instead of just setting a cap, as was the case until very recently.

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