CaseInterview.com

JULY 29, 2019

As part of a regulatory change to combat this problem, in 2002 the US government passed a law called Sarbanes Oaxley (known as “Sox”). To oversimplify, this law required that public company CEOs personally guarantee the accuracy of their company’s financial statements. One of the many things I study is market demand. complaining.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 22, 2019

In part one of my series about health economics I gave an overview of the drivers of demand in the medical care market. In this post, I will go beyond a general interpretation of demand and give you an in-depth overview of a specific and expensive issue: the rising cost of public liability insurance.

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BCG

JANUARY 11, 2017

No matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else,” Sun Microsystems cofounder Bill Joy observed more than a quarter century ago. Since so much of innovation today is rooted in technology, especially digital technology, Joy’s Law presents companies with a double-barreled conundrum.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 20, 2021

You want your general counsel to be far more competent in the law than you. I remember that he made some insightful observations and revealed second- and third-order implications of those insights. Your ability to be the smartest person in the room is highly dependent on your willingness to be the dumbest person in the room.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 27, 2014

Many history, English, and art majors, engineers, and law students – all of interest to consulting firms, but lacking in business basics – come to us asking how they can develop their business understanding to prepare for consulting interviews. Start your own business. . Size its market. Identify how it makes profit.

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Consulting Success

JUNE 12, 2017

Instead, I wanted to learn about business, law, and marketing and then combine that knowledge with opportunities in Asia. The rest is history, but I got what I wanted and ended up taking classes in international law, marketing, and economics to support what I was learning, and the Asian Business Studies Program was born.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Obamacare "Observations" Team Obama brags that that the readmission rate of patients to hospitals has been dropping. To meet the new goals, hospitals readmit patients, but they don't label it " readmission ", they label it " observation ". And that was one of the goals of Obamacare. Are congratulations in order? Not exactly.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 19, 2013

They put us "under observation". France has the resources, talent and innovation, but we are penalized by the complexity and instability of the legislative and regulatory environment, a lack of flexibility of labor law, and by complex, lengthy and uncertain procedures and, more broadly, a cultural mistrust of the market economy.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2018

This uptick in licensed workers is the direct result of the growth of occupational licensing laws. It is different from other types of regulation, like certification laws, which protect job titles (e.g., Bhavesh1988/Getty Images. Over the last few decades, the job market in the U.S. has changed in many ways. West Virginia (1889).

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 24, 2017

For the past several years, Wells Fargo has been run by MBAs, while Bank of America’s CEO since 2010, Brian Moynihan, has a law degree from Notre Dame. We were interested in how lawyer CEOs might influence firm decision making more broadly — and whether they differ from CEOs without a law degree. ’s largest banks?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2017

Despite flouting straightforward, widely applicable law in most jurisdictions, Uber usually managed to slow or stop enforcement, in due course changing the law to allow its approach. From many passengers’ perspective, Uber is a godsend — lower fares than taxis, clean vehicles, courteous drivers, easy electronic payments.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 23, 2017

In addition, there were no changes in the way hand hygiene was assessed; in accordance to the guidelines published by The Joint Commission , a nonprofit health care accreditation and certification organization, the hospital employed secret shoppers to observe and report hand hygiene behaviors.

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MishTalk

JULY 1, 2014

Specifically, Putin agreed " Ukrainian border guards be granted access to those crossing points from the Russian side as observers for joint control of the border, and that observers from the [Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe] also be admitted to those crossing points from the Russian side.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Every fall, tens of thousands of law students compete for a small number of coveted summer associateships at the country’s top law firms. The stakes are high: getting one of these rare internships virtually guarantees full-time employment after law school. Who gets invited to interview?

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 11, 2014

The take away lesson: pick your consultants carefully. Being a consultant myself, we all perhaps know after being in the industry for a while that Consultants do draw a lot of flak for coming up with shrewd solutions for organisations which are often not in the best long term interest[s] of the community. What does “shrewd” mean?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2018

And companies, not surprisingly, are eager to collect vast troves of it. For instance, Amazon continuously tracks the behaviors of its 100 million Prime members , an example of “first-party” data. The potential to conduct effective data-driven marketing with these augmented databases is enormous. Insight Center. Data-Driven Marketing.

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Rod Burkert

OCTOBER 16, 2019

In case you missed last week: Finding the time to write a book (or any activity that will build your authority in our BVFLS profession) shows that know matter how busy you think you are, the “time math” reveals we do, in fact, have the time. In fact, this post may make you wonder where you are spending your time. This is what we do! emphasis added].

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MishTalk

JULY 26, 2014

Board as it struck down multiple state laws, passed at the behest of teachers’ unions, which the court said unjustly protected incompetent teachers and unconscionably harmed children, especially the least fortunate. Constitution that “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall. Summary: In 1954, the U.S. In Vergara v.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

When most of the great companies of the industrial era were founded, even the most brilliant economists believed deeply in the law of diminishing marginal returns. The law of diminishing marginal returns held firm throughout the industrial era. That all changed in the internet era. Consider a business like Amazon Web Services.

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Martinka Consulting

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Our son-in-law is a big city police officer (not Seattle) and recently was involved in a situation that will never make the news. He entered the bedroom, observed two other officers standing there watching the boy with a knife, ordered them get out their Tasers (and guns I’m assuming), and then he disarmed the young man, with no injuries.

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Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2016

And of those, we identified roughly 1,100 firms that have exposure to any of the major tax havens that were used by Mossack Fonseca, the Panama-based law firm at the heart of the data leak. The largest release of data ever on the secret world of offshore companies led to the resignation of Iceland’s prime minister. So what did you find?

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Martinka Consulting

DECEMBER 9, 2013

My observations were validated: first by all the people I passed on the run who I saw surging earlier in the day on the bike, and later by the official components stats compiled by the race administrators…less than 35% of the competitors used power meters! Let’s put this in perspective: an Ironman is a 2.4

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MishTalk

AUGUST 15, 2013

Last Five Observations. Last Five Observations. But if one looks closely, it''s not hard to find industry groups with an unprecedented drop in work hours since ObamaCare became law. Average Weekly Hours Of Production And Nonsupervisory Employees. Note the tendency following each recession. 2013-07: 33.6 2013-06: 33.7 A: It does.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

Potter Stewart, justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, once said , “Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is right to do.” ” Associate Justice Stewart probably didn’t know how new data technologies would soon begin to blur those boundaries. Who knows what?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The political dialogue we observe on television and in social media is rarely dialogue at all. And so they are rightly avoided by most of us, until we’re blindsided by our boss, our mother-in-law, or our neighbor whose goal is to confirm our conversion rather than elicit our opinion. What the Research Says.

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Harvard Business

JULY 1, 2016

Countries that operate under common law, including the United States and the United Kingdom, lean in this direction. Countries that operate under civil law, including France, Germany, and Japan, tend to be in this camp. Corporate governance issues are constantly in the headlines. Activist investors challenge management strategies.

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MishTalk

JULY 27, 2014

There are lots of conflicting, even contradictory news reports regarding Ukraine in the past couple of days. Let;s stake a look at a few of them starting with the Bloomberg report Ukraine Army Advances as EU Plans Tougher Putin Sanctions. Ukraine’s army advanced on a last main separatist stronghold as the U.S. Let''s see the video.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 18, 2015

A great company that started from humble beginnings, IMS Health is a global leader in providing solutions in the healthcare scene specializing in information, services and technology. With so many diverse arms of the company, today we will be focusing on IMS Consulting Group, a branch of the massive IMS Health organization.

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2017

On November 9, 2016, the shareholders of Australia’s largest company, and the world’s tenth-largest bank , revolted. Other firms have ventured down this path, including the conglomerate Wesfarmers , with its 200,000-plus staff, and the global hospital operator Ramsay Health Care. Should soft measures be part of a CEO’s scorecard?

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Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2018

At the law firm Allen & Overy, the idea of replacing traditional, annual performance appraisals with a technology-enabled continuous feedback system did not come from human resources. Walker and Walker/Getty Images. It came from a leader within the practice. Insight Center. HR must be a partner and enabler — but not the owner.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 26, 2017

Using a Stanford Law School database, we identified a sample of 663 firms that were alleged to have engaged in financial misreporting and were subject to class action shareholder litigation in U.S. federal court from 1996–2011. Option grants by these misreporting firms varied over time.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 29, 2017

Our data was collected at a time when the French government was passing a gay marriage law that had polarized public opinion and triggered months of protests. Our data was collected at a time when the French government was passing a gay marriage law that had polarized public opinion and triggered months of protests. In the U.S.

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MishTalk

MARCH 30, 2015

Ben Bernanke just started his own blog at the Brookings Institute. His first post, from today, Inaugurating a New Blog is the announcement. Let''s dive into Bernanke''s second post of the day: Why are Interest Rates So Low? Bernanke : Low interest rates are not a short-term aberration, but part of a long-term trend.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2017

“The increasing amounts of time that we spend on these devices, often using them for both leisure and work, means that many of our emotional experiences are channeled through these digital media,” observes Dr. John Torous, who codirects the Digital Psychiatry Program at BIDMC /Harvard Medical School. Distracted? Overwhelmed?

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 18, 2018

tax law has made this task even harder with its elimination of the individual mandate for health insurance, a part of the Affordable Care Act that requires individuals to buy insurance or risk having to pay a tax penalty. Zelma Brezinska/EyeEm/Getty Images. Critics argue that the new U.S. Critics argue that the new U.S.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

This phenomenon was described by two Cornell psychologists, David Dunning and Justin Kruger, who observed that for any given skill, incompetent people fail to recognize their own deficiencies and don’t recognize the skill in others. “I think I am a pretty good coach,” the executive across the desk said to us.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Do this repeatedly, for at least three to five days, and then observe any perceivable patterns. Alyson was 35 when she had a stroke. The ambitious attorney awoke one morning unable to move, the left side of her body paralyzed. She was due in court later that day, so before calling for help, she reached for her phone and dialed her assistant.

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