Consulting Conversations: When to Hire a Consultant

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Director of Consulting, Hank Harris answer the question in an installment of Consulting Conversations. Watch it now!That's a great question. I think that if you consider why CEOs hire consultants -- because it seems somewhat improbable on many levels -- but what it boils down to is most CEOs of a...
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Consulting Conversations: The Value of a Company

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Director of Consulting, Hank Harris answers the question in this episode of Consulting Conversations. Watch it now!So, there are three generic approaches to evaluation, which is a very complicated topic. But typically, there's what's called the market approach, the second one is called the income...
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Consulting Conversations: Selling a Company vs ESOP

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Director of Consulting, Hank Harris answers the question in this episode of Consulting Conversations. Watch it now!Selling to an outside party versus doing an ESOP: First of all, ESOPs are not for every company. There are only some companies for whom that would make sense for. The same thing coul...
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Consulting Conversations: Selling a Company vs ESOP

Author:Hank Harris

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Director of Consulting, Hank Harris answers the question in this episode of Consulting Conversations. Watch it now!Selling to an outside party versus doing an ESOP: First of all, ESOPs are not for every company. There are only some companies for whom that would make sense for. The same thing coul...
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Consulting Conversations: The Cost of a Consultant

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Hank Harris, Director of Consulting, answers the question in this installment of Consulting Conversations. Watch it now!I'm tempted to say that in most cases the answer is always too much until someone decides there is a big enough gain to be made by employing a consultant. But to try to give you...
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Consulting Conversations: The Resources a Consultant will Need

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Hank Harris, Director of Consulting, answers the question in another episode of Consulting Conversations. Watch it now!It really depends obviously on what you have the consultant doing, so let's assume that you're trying to have the consultant do something that involves gaining a fairly deep unde...
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Consulting Conversations: What a Consultant Brings to the Table

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Hank Harris, Director of Consulting, addresses this question in the latest Consulting Conversations installment. Watch it now!I think that depends on the nature of the assignment, but typically consultants probably one of the biggest resources they're going to bring to bear is the fact that they ...
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Media Mention: Business Adaptability During COVID-19

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The Wilmington Business Journal recently asked corporate and securities attorney Ken Bart and Director of Consulting for Ward and Smith Business Consulting, Hank Harris, how businesses can strategize for a post-pandemic environment. Their comments appeared in the latest "Insightful Discussion."CO...
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