The row centred on Mr Lake's directorship of a consultancy company, Charterhouse Chancery Ltd, that offered Olympic Games hospitality packages to overseas visitors.
"I don't think the benefit to Amazon has been that great, " said Michael Norris, a senior analyst for Simba Information, a research and consultancy company.
According to Pearl Meyer and Partners, a compensation consultancy, 2% of a company's pool of shares goes to senior executives, mainly as options, each year.
Ms. Gu and Mr. Devillers were both consulting partners for Horas Consultancy, a company that advised businesses investing in Dalian and elsewhere in China in the 1990s, according to that firm's publicity material.
Ellison conceived Oracle as a low-overhead consultancy, a strategy that helped the young company achieve positive cash flow from the start.
Kearney, a management consultancy, and the Economist Intelligence Unit, a sister company of The Economist, more than a fifth had pulled out of at least one money-losing venture in China.
Other hospitals have been waiting for greater certainty to follow the lead of large systems, said Chas Roades, the chief research officer of the Advisory Board Company, a hospital consultancy.
In 1989 Ibrahim left a successful career at BT to start his own telecommunications consultancy company, called MSI Cellular Investments, based in Africa and meant to be a specifically African operation.
One company that has considered a merger in the past year is the Trinsum Group, which is itself the product of a union in early 2007 between Marakon, a strategy consultancy, and Integrated Finance, a financial- and risk-consulting company that includes Robert Merton, a Nobel prize-winning economist, among its founders.
The acquisition is the biggest yet of a British life company with closed books, according to Anthony Stevens of Mercer Oliver Wyman, a consultancy.
When a large German travel company asked the Cologne-based consultancy empulse for help with its online travel site, the group agreed.
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It holds 35% of global reserves but supplies more than 95% of demand, of which 60% is domestic, according to Industrial Minerals Company of Australia (IMCOA), a consultancy.
She said Qinetiq had appointed a consultancy firm to help staff find alternative jobs both within the company and externally.
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The two friends both used to work at McKinsey, a consultancy stress a new common goal for the merged company: pushing banking and insurance services through the same channels.
Aditya Mittal, president and chief financial officer of his father's company, told a recent London conference (run by a consultancy, World Steel Dynamics, and Metal Bulletin) that one of the emerging majors would be bound to be Chinese, despite the extreme fragmentation of China's industry at the moment.
The MD of one consultancy told us how its intelligence-gathering dissuaded a blue-chip British company from a potentially damaging investment in a corrupt privatisation in a south-east Asian country.
West Ham began inquiries after a newspaper reported in July that the club paid a member of staff at the Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC) for consultancy services and mentioned "bank and telephone records... obtained by corporate investigators hired by Tottenham Hotspur".
Tom Andrews, from the marketing consultancy The Value Engineers, agrees that the change in direction could be a success as long as the company does not take a leap too far.
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