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...“As a subscriptions business, we need to protect the value of our journalism and our business model....
...EY’s global consulting business....
...In October, the Financial Times reported that Deloitte was planning to axe about 150 junior consulting roles as part of its initial redundancy round....
...Over time they should become better at doing so as they accumulate experience. The technology could be particularly helpful if it reduces auditor workloads....
...CLS was doing legal work for a company called Profit Group, which was listed in billing records as being part of Concord and whose functions are described as overseas oil extraction and mining, among other...
...“Are audit firms really doing enough to enable women to get to the top?” asked Ms Reeves. “Are they doing all they can to recruit a more ethnically diverse workforce?...
...“They are nervous that their data is the big value of their business and they would be giving it away,” he says....
...However, their growing clout began to attract the scrutiny of US business lobby groups, as well as some of corporate America’s best-known leaders....
...(NYT) Doing justice Preet Bharara sits down with Dave Chang to talk about his tenure as the US attorney for the southern district of New York and being recognised as one of the most successful prosecutors...
...“If Google is in the business of expanding access to information, why do they not conceive of their business in those terms in China?” he asked....
...The US has separately sanctioned 17 Saudi nationals, while US senator Elizabeth Warren has asked Boston Consulting Group, Booz Allen and Deloitte to detail all their paid consulting contracts with Saudi...
...“That is just not true — all we are doing is offering some pretty basic rights to consumers.”...
...We are doing record business. We have the highest levels of enthusiasm, so the head of Walmart, who I know, who’s a very nice guy, was making a political statement....
...Asset management remains an uncommonly profitable business, with operating margins of 37 per cent in 2015 and profits that topped $100bn globally, according to Boston Consulting....
...Kennedy School at Harvard University and managing principal of Broadmoor Consulting LLC. Lending Club’s Q3 2016 earnings call was a strange affair....
...They are doing this as thousands of new, high-tech aircraft enter service to meet soaring demand for air travel....
...Mr Lawsky has launched his own law and consulting firm which covers much of the same ground as Promontory, judging by its website....
...But, as the months went on, it was clear he had unfinished business at the company he co-founded in October 1981. By the time of the anniversary party, he had resumed duties as chief executive....
...Analysts say the challenge for Symphony is to build a big enough community of users that it becomes an essential part of doing business in financial markets....
...As costs escalate, more such deals or company exits are likely, executives say....
...The man known as “the father” of exchange traded funds is back in business....
...Elite advisers can learn from these websites: investors respond well to full account access, especially on mobile devices, and to using technology that makes doing business easier. Some are learning....
...Or, which can be just as bad, do people follow them blindly, without thinking about what they are really doing?”...
...“Clients who make decisions around software such as Salesforce or Workday are doing so purely on functionality. It just so happens that the delivery method is cloud....
...Not having to establish a significant presence on the ground in order to start doing business makes it easier to build profits....
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