Hot Tips;

 

A consultant, they say, is someone who borrows your watch and then tells you what time it is. Well, the watch wasn't enough. A number of consultants are cleaning up with IPOs. Philip Crosby Associates Inc., the quality-control specialists, raised $13 million in late 1985 -- with $4.8 million going to selling shareholders. Insiders did even better in last summer's $11.6-million IPO from the Gartner Group Inc., cashing in to the tune of $6.8 million.