Entrepreneur and angel investor Judith Clegg is the founder and chief executive of London and New York based innovation and strategy consultancy Takeout.
Zapolski previously founded Management Innovation Group, a growth strategy consultancy.
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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.
Ed Barton is director of digital media strategies at the consultancy Strategy Analytics.
Nonetheless, this particular form of web services is overhyped, says Rahul Sood of Tech Strategy Partners, a consultancy in Silicon Valley.
Ellison conceived Oracle as a low-overhead consultancy, a strategy that helped the young company achieve positive cash flow from the start.
The Merc has hired McKinsey, a management consultancy, to review its strategy and governance.
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Rita Clifton, chairman of Interbrand, a consultancy, says that this strategy can work.
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"In principle this is possible today, but the costs of creating and personalising the adverts would outweigh potential gains in terms of effectiveness, " says Adam Fulford, strategy and planning director at digital branding consultancy Rufus Leonard.
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Mr. Freedman is the director of strategy and policy analysis at the Soufan Group, a strategic consultancy.
Daniel Freedman is the director of strategy and policy analysis at The Soufan Group, a strategic intelligence consultancy and a columnist for Forbes.
Data from Hedge Fund Research, a consultancy, show that in the second quarter, a share-hedging strategy involving both long and short sales was the most popular in America and Britain.
"Samsung's strategy is to make whatever the market needs, " said Ken Dulaney, vice president at the tech consultancy Gartner.
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