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We May Not Have a Clear Path, But We Each Have One

Harmonious Workplaces

In 2001, Michael hired a no-name like me after an informational interview to become the Associate Marketing Director for GIA Publications. He entrusted me to craft my own job, manage my own way of doing things, and develop and refine systems for various marketing jobs, from trade show exhibits to catalog publishing.

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Advisory Board Company Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Four years later, in 2001, The Advisory Board Company went public (NASDAQ: ABCO). The firm also started growing rapidly through M&A, acquiring Crimson, an analytics, data, and business intelligence software provider focused on analytics related to physician performance, healthcare practice quality and cost management in 2008.

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Coronavirus: Leadership during a Crisis

CaseInterview.com

First, I have helped my CEO clients navigate multiple industry, capital market, and economic crises over the past 25 years. There was 9/11 in 2001. There was the Great Recession in 2008. In that case, you need to explain why everyone’s instinctive reaction is the wrong one. There was the dot-com boom and crash of 2000.

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Mortgage REITs Clobbered as Leverage Forces Sales

MishTalk

Minyanville Business and Market News. Case Against The Fed. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. The rise in yields have wreaked havoc in the bond markets and even more so in mortgage-related Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs). Sitka Pacific. Recent Posts.

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Ritholtz on Gold and on.

MishTalk

Minyanville Business and Market News. Case Against The Fed. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Ritholtz on Gold and on Making Predictions; How Secular Bull Markets End; Winning vs. Investing. Sitka Pacific. Recent Posts. Featured Links. Home Builders.

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When a Simple Rule of Thumb Beats a Fancy Algorithm

Harvard Business

So, a decade ago, marketing professor Florian von Wangenheim ( now at the ETH Zurich technical university in Switzerland) and his then-student Markus Wübben ( now an executive at a tech incubator in Berlin) set out, in Wangenheim’s words, to “convince companies to use these models.” What they found surprised them.

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The Real Reasons Companies Are So Focused on the Short Term

Harvard Business

This has been a remarkable year for the markets. We came to this conclusion through interviews with CTOs across a range of industries, which we conducted as part of an NSF study to identify factors explaining differences in firms’ RQ. MirageC/Getty Images. The S&P and the Dow indexes are up 18% and 19%, respectively.

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