Successful Independent Consulting

JANUARY 28, 2025

For example, if you do change management work on big system implementations, you may lose $50,000 or more. strategy development, market research, transformation initiatives). Here's how to tap into this market: Find the Right Firms Start with internet searches that combine your area of expertise and location (e.g.,

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Epicflow

DECEMBER 10, 2024

engineering, marketing, finance, etc.) For example, its impossible to hire hundreds of people to work on one large project and fire them upon completing it. For example, project manager s are interested in assigning a team member immediately to a project to ensure its timely completion.

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Steve Shu Consulting

JULY 25, 2014

For example, Opower tapped into a great market using software-as-a-service and a behavioral efficiency model for saving energy. As another example, when I was working with Allscripts we had more of a strategic, business unit approach. What’s going on in the market? Each of these routes is suited for different situations.

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Successful Independent Consulting

AUGUST 28, 2024

A marketing tagline is short phrase that helps people remember you in a certain way. Remember, clients want to hire The Expert, so be sure to market yourself as one! [1] The 4th and 5th examples were invented by me.) [2] When you are perceived as an expert, you’ll get more referrals and win more work. You get the idea.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2024

In a well-functioning capital market, profits should be the sole criterion for firm survival; that is, firms reporting losses should disappear. Unicorns, or startups with valuations exceeding a billion dollars, are examples of such loss-making firms.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 28, 2025

2024, the global cryptocurrency market capitalisation reached more than US$3.7 In October 2020, HSBC launched theContour platform, which uses blockchain to digitize trade finance and reduce friction in international trade transactions.

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Steve Shu Consulting

JANUARY 18, 2023

Shifting to the world of human behavior, one classic example of the impact of anchoring on judgments was done by Jacowitz and Kahneman, where they asked people to guess the height of the tallest redwood tree. For example, in another post , my colleague, Prof. customer discovery, customer validation, go-to-market).

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 25, 2024

This article delves into the rising importance of ESG metrics, how companies are integrating them into their operations, provides leading examples, and highlights the evolving regulatory landscape. Leading Examples Several multinational companies are leading the way in integrating ESG metrics into their business practices.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 9, 2016

Read more from Google Analytics 360 Suite: Rethinking Marketing Measurement from the Ground Up. 3 Ways Marketing Organizations Can Make Data More Actionable. Marketing can look at this data and decide to test a hypothesis: Is that color product selling best because it’s in an image featured on the homepage?

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Steve Shu Consulting

JANUARY 4, 2023

this legislation covers finance and retirement-related considerations. For example, by increasing the age at which people are required to take minimum distributions from retirement, how might this affect other choices? For example, what impact might it have on how people think about claiming Social Security? See Shu et al.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department. Insight Center.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 1, 2017

Check out our breakdowns on Profitability , Market Sizing , and Market Study to become a complete expert on any kind of framework you’ll need in your case interview. These cases can be some of the scariest, because they test things like finance principles, but on the other hand, they’re really easy to recognize.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 20, 2014

where I worked for IMG (international marketing group) at the Winter Olympics. I managed a group of 17 brand ambassadors executing an “in-field” activation/marketing campaign for an IMG client, Wrigley Canada (chewing gum). I then took another internship in finance with Merrill Lynch.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 1, 2013

Oliver Wyman’s CEO, John Drzik, states that the long-term aspiration is to be recognized widely in the market as the gold standard in consulting. And, of course, their claim to fame, Financial Services , is broken down into even more practices including: Finance and Risk. Corporate and Finance and Advisory. Consultant.

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Steve Shu Consulting

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Management consulting projects can span diverse areas from operational to finance to marketing to strategy to IT management, etc. For example, you can see this in some of the digital agency like efforts (e.g.,investigate Are there other models? There are other modern, consultative models emerging.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 18, 2019

For example, if the interviewer asked you to calculate the annual revenue for Apple and you’re final figure is $4 million, then you know you’re off by several orders of magnitude. Min Kim is currently an MBA student at NYU Stern School of Business where she is specializing in Product Management, Business Analytics and Finance.

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Successful Independent Consulting

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Sample projects include company valuation, workshop development, competitive analysis, financial projections, go-to-market plans, performance measurement, and pricing. SpareHire is an online work marketplace for finance and consulting projects.” Some are fixed price, some by the hour. Sounds intimidating. More investigation required.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 22, 2016

For example, when a supplier elects to receive payment for a $10,000 invoice in 15 days through the FinTech and the buyer submits payment to the FinTech 90 days after it approves the supplier invoice and buyer’s cost of capital is 2%, the discount that the supplier gives to the FinTech is only $41 (i.e.,

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Steve Shu Consulting

MARCH 21, 2014

For those unfamiliar with the term “behavioral economics”, I generally describe behavioral economics as a combination of psychology and a traditional science like economics or finance. For example, why do some people help or punish others when it is not in their best economics interests to do so?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 7, 2017

All of this indicates that Uber leaders prioritized immediately useful services like recruitment over, for example, legal compliance systems, audits, and leadership development. As Pete Ramstad and I note in Beyond HR , leaders often have far better developed frameworks for the value proposition of the finance function than for HR.

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Recruiting Recruitment Finance Agile 143

Tom Spencer

JUNE 9, 2023

For example, businesses like Netflix, Youtube, Amazon, and Airbnb use AI-powered recommendation systems to suggest movies, videos, products, and rental properties based on a user’s browsing history, past purchases, and revealed preferences based on past behavior. These systems can suggest relevant products that customers are likely to enjoy.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 27, 2018

stock exchanges has declined by almost 50% from its peak in 1996, despite dramatic increase in aggregate market capitalization. firms gravitate towards digital strategies, firms have less need for elaborate finance, marketing, production, distribution, accounting, and human resource departments. stock exchanges.

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Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2018

In core functional or process transformation initiatives — which are often driven by digitization — we’ve seen examples of people analytics being used to measure activities and find embedded expertise. Often times, facts can change the conversation from tired head-nodding to curiosity.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

The wars between departments doubled the time required to bring a new product to market because teams were often given conflicting directions. The business unit teams focused on talent, customer segmentation, and marketing. These are just symptoms, however. The underlying problem is bad governance.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2017

Just as we wouldn’t rely on a single marketing tactic or a single source of financing for the entire life of an organization, we need to build up a portfolio of innovation strategies designed for specific tasks. Taking steps to participate in these types of programs can help small business compete in competitive markets.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

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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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you want to achieve sustainable success as a consultant - ideally you want to create a marketing system to ensure you have a consistently full pipeline of right-fit clients. Your mindset still has to be one of service and value for what you bring to the table vs. letting fear and need drive your marketing.

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Consulting Matters

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

And then to complicate my challenges, I found myself in an unexpected divorce that literally decimated my finances. I hired an amazing mentor and web strategist who helped me create a world-class website and marketing strategy and landed my first client within 2 weeks of launching that earned me 10x more of what I was earning as a freelancer.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 10, 2018

For example, firms with better-connected CEOs can obtain cheaper financing , and firms with well-connected board directors see better performance. Our study , published in the Journal of Corporate Finance, found that CEOs with strong connections to people of different demographic backgrounds and skill sets create higher firm value.

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Alan Weiss

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

It’s become fashionable to talk about “Vito” (Very Important Top Officer) in marketing, thought it sound more like a mob leader to me. If you’re dealing with Fortune 1000 companies, it’s unlikely you’ll be marketing to or working with the CEO of, say, JPMorganChase or Toyota.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2016

While meeting this challenge is a clear priority for policy makers and donors, it is also a major profit opportunity for commercial players who can solve market failures and create real value. Micro-insurance is not at scale anywhere except when heavily subsidized by government, a market we hope technology may change in the future.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

A cornerstone of efficient and transparent markets is freely available information. In 2001 professors Gur Huberman and Tomer Regev of Columbia University drew attention to a peculiar sequence of market reactions to news regarding a cancer research breakthrough licensed by biotech firm EntreMed.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2018

In highly cited articles in HBR , Michael Jensen, a faculty member at HBS, and arguably the most prominent agency theorist, put forth a harsh criticism of diversification as a main example of managerial opportunism at the expense of shareholders’ wealth. Let’s look at one example from our data.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Over the past 18 months, Sergey’s experience has been echoed in offices in Ukraine, South Africa, Turkey, Brazil, and many other emerging markets that have faced substantial currency depreciation due to the drop in commodity prices and the flow of capital to the U.S. Normally, MNCs raise prices in the emerging market, (e.g.,

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Marketing Agile Company Sales 70

Tom Spencer

JUNE 6, 2020

It is a critical step towards identifying growth opportunities in business and should be carried out before undertaking any of the following actions: Developing customized marketing programs (e.g. Demographic segmentation divides a market through variables such as age, gender, education level, family size, occupation, income, and more.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Knowing the ins and outs of upcoming trends in finance is indispensable for any aspiring consultant. A prime example for such a question is how finance is adapting to the issue of climate change, and might assist its mitigation. Green Finance. Final thoughts.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you want to achieve sustainable success as a consultant - ideally you want to create a marketing system to ensure you have a consistently full pipeline of right-fit clients. Your mindset still has to be one of service and value for what you bring to the table vs. letting fear and need drive your marketing.

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