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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! Is Eden McCallum the ideal employer for everyone?

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What So Many Strategists Get Wrong About Digital Disruption

Harvard Business Review

Given these network effects – as many proclaim – markets get “winner takes all properties”: the largest network will win, crowding out the remaining competitors (like MySpace and Google+). It is a misconception to think that network effects inevitably and always lead to a winner-take-all market.

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Revenge of the HourlyNerds

Harvard Business Review

business schools and select international schools to bid on consulting projects that have been posted by prospective clients, mostly small business owners. HourlyNerd, by encouraging students to bid against each other, likely drives down the hourly cost of projects even more. Eden McCallum , for example, is a U.K.