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Global staffing, private equity and advisory expansion are becoming part of the operating model at many of the profession’s largest firms.

In the final episode of our series, INSIDE the IPA 500, Chelsea Summers and Rob Brown examine how deeply these strategies run through the IPA 100. They explore why offshoring does not produce a simple productivity story, compare PE-backed and independent firms beyond their identical organic growth rates and break down the economics of advisory-dominant firms.

The data reveals different choices around partner compensation, reinvestment, pricing, talent and scale.

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