Consulting Matters

JULY 21, 2022

Since we worked together, he took on massive promotions – he became the Chief Hospitality Officer at Wyndham, a very different role than his real estate law background, and then eventually a CEO for another company. Learn more about my Brand Positioning and Messaging strategy services: [link]. Mark Johnson [link].

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MishTalk

MARCH 4, 2015

Hypocrisy of the Toronto real estate board is stunning. Self-Serving Hypocrites Suppress Data Please consider Toronto Real Estate Board Demands Brokers Halt Online Sales Stats. Late last night, real estate broker Fraser Beach posted an online alert he called “bad news.” Their excuse is "privacy". "

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Commercial real-estate prices have continued to rise and are projected to far exceed levels they reached before the 2007-09 financial crisis, adjusted for inflation. Small banks, money-market funds, mutual funds and government-sponsored enterprises have become big players feeding the financial system with credit.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 18, 2019

These asset classes can include public equities/stocks, fixed income/bonds, money markets, commodities, infrastructure, real estate and alternative strategies – including hedge funds, private equity and venture capital. As such, asset manager performance tends to be correlated with stock market performance.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 2, 2017

Strategy& (PwC). Ask any consultant about the Middle East, and Booz (now Strategy&) will be the first name on their lips! A little later, Booz was acquired by PwC and rebranded as Strategy& Now that our little history lesson is complete, let’s continue. Here we go! McKinsey & Company. McKinsey at #4?

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Some people also call consulting a ‘talk-job’ – you go to the clients, you talk about what the ideal world scenario would be for a particular project, product or market, and your billable hours are sorted. Sales, Marketing, Production) and secondary functions (e.g. There are three main types of business consultants.

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Martinka Consulting

OCTOBER 27, 2021

All one has to do is look at a business publication to realize the employee market is in turmoil for many, many industries. It comes back to, can a company attract and retain great people, with an emphasis on retaining (in today’s market)? What was at the top of the lists was employees, which is where it should be. President Dwight D.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The travel and hospitality industries have been decimated, stock markets around the world have tanked, and governments struggle to combat this devil on so many fronts. During the dotcom bubble, the financial crisis, and the real estate bubble, what did consulting firms do? Commerce has ground to a halt.

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Martinka Consulting

DECEMBER 26, 2019

I’ve been involved in a real estate buy-sell transaction as over the last 18 months we’ve been trying to sell our family cabin in the Midwest. In this part of the country it is not a red-hot real estate market, with only one exception and the exception is places on a chain of lakes, which our place is not.

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MishTalk

APRIL 25, 2014

The Australia Macro Business Blog notes Tier 1 Chinese Cities Discounting Property Prices and volumes are falling in Beijing and real estate agents are started to drum up sales by delisting homes listed at high prices. Online Prices Falling Everywhere; Real Estate Agents Cut Prices 30% ( ?????????

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Successful Independent Consulting

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Also, the larger the firm, the more overhead the billing rate needs to cover such as partner salaries and bonuses, real estate, advertising, and training. Figure out your market rate. This is your market rate. I said I could do an assessment, strategy, and plan in three to four weeks and my rate was $225 an hour.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 17, 2023

Michael Porter: Focus on creating value Professor Michael Porter, a leading authority on competitive strategy , has emphasised that the true measure of success for a company is not just its quarterly financial performance, but also how those results are attained. One example of Buffett’s approach is his investment in Coca-Cola.

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MishTalk

MAY 14, 2014

You can’t predict how the bursting of a Chinese real estate bubble plays out because it plays out in very small steps,” said Joel H. Rothstein, a partner in the Beijing office of the Paul Hastings law firm who specializes in Asian real estate. Here we are again, in another slowdown.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

List of strategy consulting firms in Hong Kong 2011. List of strategy consulting firms in Hong Kong. OC&C Strategy Consultants. Roland Berger Strategy Consultants. Applied Value offers strategy, finance, and operations management services. Definitions. Helpful Links. in Management Consulting. IMS Health.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

of India’s real estate market. real estate transactions has slumped in India as developers have refused to offer discounts for fear of starting a market rout. “If international real estate investment firm started in 2005. “If international real estate investment firm started in 2005.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Ibex is the name of the Spanish stock market exchange. Construction and real estate had a 10% improvement. Despite this improvement, the data shows that the construction sector and real estate remains the one with the greatest delay in settlement of bills. Via translation from La Vanguardia. <

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Market-Watch notes All-Cash Home Sales Reach New High. But real-estate experts say this increase may not be a good sign for the health of the housing market, which may also be impacted by the Federal Reserve’s decision to pull back on its bond-buying program. The cities [states?]

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

One of us is an urban theorist, the other a community-focused real estate developer. EDENS, of which the latter is CEO, has led the revitalization of the 45-acre Union Market district in Northeast Washington, DC. The Union Market challenge. They are certainly important components, but they are not enough.

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MishTalk

JULY 9, 2014

Real estate is well back in bubble territory in some places, notably California. Henry Nunez, a real estate agent in Arcadia, California, met with so many homebuyers from China that he bought a Mandarin-English translation app for his phone. Bloomberg reports Chinese Cash-Bearing Buyers Drive U.S. Foreign Sales Jump.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 28, 2017

And the risks are real: Zillow’s research predicts that $400 billion dollars of real estate value in Florida could be at risk from climate change by the year 2100. Hayek , economists have emphasized the central role that price signals play in markets. Better Data Can Help Insurers More Accurately Price Climate Risk.

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MishTalk

JUNE 13, 2014

China bulls point out that that home prices in China are based on fundamentals and 30% don payments are proof there is no real estate bubble. Poly Real Estate Group Co. stocks and bonds, and investment strategy. Bloomberg reports China No-Money-Down Housing Echoes U.S. New yuan loans exceeded forecasts at 870.8

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MishTalk

JUNE 25, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Patrick Housing Crash News Top Housing and Commercial Real Estate News. Bay Area Real Estate Trends. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. With rates spiking, global stock markets plunged.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 17, 2014

For example, The Globe and Mail reports Bank CEOs ‘should be worried’ about real estate. Ed Clark, Toronto-Dominion Bank’s outspoken chief executive officer, is playing the contrarian card one more time, publicly arguing that he and his fellow bank CEOs should be cautious about the country’s heated real estate market.

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Martinka Consulting

JUNE 30, 2021

Go back a year and then I thought a lot of distressed companies would hit the market in Q2 and Q3 of 2020. I’m starting to see more hurt companies on the market. In real estate, residential or commercial, it’s a lot easier to estimate the cost to rehab a building (assuming a top-notch inspector was involved). I was wrong.

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Martinka Consulting

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Buy a new car, decide you don’t like it, you’re out the 20% they say is the immediate market discount. And, at a peak of the real estate market they bought a building. I learned a lesson, picked up one client (five projects, none for this idea), a few good marketing tactics. We all deal with sunk costs.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 7, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Patrick Housing Crash News Top Housing and Commercial Real Estate News. Bay Area Real Estate Trends. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation?

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1 to 1

MAY 19, 2020

A forward-thinking strategy is the best solution for overcoming uncertainty. For CX-leaders in the contact center space to overcome the fallout from COVID-19, the digital, remote, and perseverance strategies that carried them through the crisis in the first place may be their best move. Here are three strategies worth embracing.

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MishTalk

JULY 9, 2014

Much of this credit may be tied up in the real estate market. Real estate speculators can obtain capital through credit guarantee firms. Legitimate companies in need of financing may also have borrowed, such as glass or furniture companies strapped for cash due to the slowdown in the real estate market.

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Rick Conlow

JUNE 19, 2023

They need to adapt their leadership styles, communication strategies, and performance evaluation methods to accommodate remote work. Impact on Traditional Workspaces: Remote work has significant implications for traditional office spaces, commercial real estate, and urban planning.

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Consultant Ninja

MARCH 31, 2009

A Simple Question about the Credit Markets. AJ: I totally agree that it massively shift market share from the sick banks to the healthy banks. But wouldnt that be a better market result than letting the sick banks keep their share? CI: Whats the problem if a few banks go under, as long as credit flow to the real economy remains?

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

But what puzzles me is that the current situation involves real estate to which the sanctions do not apply. Blue Ribbon for Sanction Craziness What would happen if Russia were to act in kind, by seizing McDonald''s Real Estate Empire in Russia , Starbucks, or Exxon? Nothing surprises me anymore. The question is moot.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 6, 2016

Many suggest housing is related to oil and the stock market. We are saving to buy a home, but continue to get priced out of the market. Hunting Homes in Silicon Valley The Washington Post reports on What it’s like to house-hunt in Silicon Valley, the nation’s priciest market. Others say employment outlook and QE play a role.

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MishTalk

APRIL 7, 2014

In spite of this decline, residential real estate sales have remained strong due at least in part to investor activity and the fact that cash sales account for almost half of all transactions. For further discussion of sentiment and risk, please see Framework for Understanding Market Tops and Bottoms.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 20, 2014

where I worked for IMG (international marketing group) at the Winter Olympics. I managed a group of 17 brand ambassadors executing an “in-field” activation/marketing campaign for an IMG client, Wrigley Canada (chewing gum). I moved back to Portland and started looking for analyst jobs in banking, consulting, and corporate strategy.

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Martinka Consulting

MARCH 27, 2021

They’ll think it’s a growth strategy at work. Concentrate on strategy and vision. And he’s got a handful of leases on which he’s obligated (in a tough office real estate market). Don’t have it be a shelf plan, make it an action plan ( see my blog for my ACTION plan to sell a business ). Get your team involved.

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MishTalk

JULY 10, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Patrick Housing Crash News Top Housing and Commercial Real Estate News. Bay Area Real Estate Trends. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Featured Links. GoldMoney: The Best Way to Buy Gold & Silver.

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Consultant Ninja

JULY 26, 2011

I wonder if this is a good buying opportunity or the market will stay flat for some time ahead. Unless, we have some kind of new invention, some new economic development, we are unlikely to see rebound in the economy and/or real estate. I am a strategy consultant at. Home Inventory Chart. September 12, 2011 at 7:55 PM.

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