This article is by Susan Battley, the founder and chief executive of Battley Performance Consulting.
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Consultants also shall provide full disclosure of any payments they receive from money managers, in hard or soft dollars, for any services they provide, including but not limited to, performance measurement, business consulting and education.
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We provided free consulting on modern management practices to a randomly chosen set of treatment plants and compared their performance to the control plants.
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