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While at Harvard Business School, Pat Petitti cofounded a marketplace for independent consultants. Catalant connects businesses with its platform of 75,000 independent consultants and boutique firms.

Small and midsize businesses have most–if not all–of the same IT needs as larger organizations, but they lack the resources and dedicated IT departments to manage them. At the same time, ...

Becoming an independent consultant can be lucrative with the right experience under your belt. These five independent workers left their executive positions to found their own consulting businesses.

Oz Alon is the co-founder and CEO of HoneyBook, a clientflow and financial management platform for independent business owners. Being laid off is daunting and destabilizing, but it's also an ...

For the last 20 years, I've been working for others as an IT Manager, Network Lead or Systems Administrator. Last year I moved to a new position, coming from working for 15 years for the same company.

I love the way you tell us to take charge of our careers, and I want to do it. I want to become an independent consultant. The problem is that I'm not an expert in anything. I've worked in Operations, ...

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