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What Happens When All Employees Work When They Feel Like It

Harvard Business Review

The management consulting firm Eden McCallum, from London, does strategy work much like McKinsey, the Boston Consulting Group, and Bain – but with one important exception: none of its roughly 500 consultants are on the payroll. Eden and McCallum’s idea was: Come work for us! Does it work?

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Revenge of the HourlyNerds

Harvard Business Review

Last week’s news that Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban put $450K into the $750K seed round of consulting startup HourlyNerd should make traditional consultants nervous. business schools and select international schools to bid on consulting projects that have been posted by prospective clients, mostly small business owners.