So why do people in Finland pay a small fraction of the price for much more mobile bandwidth – which they use – than people in Germany, Spain and the US? It's simple, according to persuasive research from a Helsinki consultancy, Rewheel: Finland has genuine competition not dominated by an dominant state-preferred (or owned) carrier.
The ECJ was asked to advise on whether a requirement not to wear an Islamic headscarf when providing IT consultancy services could be regarded as a "genuine and determining occupational requirement", therefore falling outside the scope of the prohibition on discrimination on the grounds of religion or belief provided for by a EU directive.
Since then, three- and four-day field trips have been added to the curriculum – astonishingly for a tourism course, students only did the odd day trip before – and undergraduates get actively involved in staff members' research and consultancy work to gain experience of working on genuine project briefs for real clients.
There is a genuine danger of unintended adverse consequences from their current policy," said Sentance, now senior economic adviser at the consultancy PwC.
IDEO, a design and innovation consultancy, conducted market research for QVC and found that avid customers described the company as "relevant, innovative, genuine and fun," a step up from the original QVC acronym, "Quality, Value, Convenience".
"We're not communications specialists, but we understand what real authenticity and genuine sustainability looks like, and our more astute colleagues call on that expertise", says Mike Tuffrey, co-founder of responsible business consultancy Corporate Citizenship, which was acquired by UK marketing services firm Chime Communications in 2007.
Genuine job offers have been the result of the employer and the MBA student spending time getting to know one another through internship, consultancy project or mentoring.
"We became a consultancy.
