Described by the Guardian as "a bold move, staking everything on pure intellect", it is the story of an anthropologist working for a corporate consultancy who is charged with writing "the Great Report … the Book.
More than 17 years after first being elected head of McKinsey & Co, the management consultancy, Gupta was charged last week in part of the same insider trading investigation that saw his friend, hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam, sentenced to 11 years in prison, the longest-ever sentence in such a case.
Furthermore, producers were highly interested in the diagnostics and veterinary consultancy free of charge.
But developers appear to be caught in a pincer of disagreements between three Apple executives, suggests Ben Thompson of the Stratechery consultancy: Craig Federighi, is in charge of iOS 8 engineering, Eddy Cue, in charge of App Store promotion and editorial, and Phil Schiller, who is believed to be in charge of the App Store review team.
In contrast, management consultants, who charge a fixed fee for their work, are regarded as more trustworthy.In response, the big marketing groups are trying to become like consultancies.
The Huron Consulting Group, a management consultancy involved in Lehman, charged $2.54 for "gum in airport".
The transactions, however, include apparently fake share deals, with shares "traded" retrospectively; multimillion-dollar charges for vague "consultancy" services; and repeated payments of large sums in "compensation" for allegedly cancelled share deals.
The Long Island Power Authority, which came under scathing criticism after its hobbled response to Hurricane Sandy, is facing new scrutiny after a commission found evidence of "highly questionable" billing practices and "exorbitant" expenses charged by a consultancy that was deeply involved in the authority's business, according to a state report released Saturday.
One to beware of is the snake-oil salesman who masquerades as an investor but then tries to charge you a consultancy fee.
