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A Fuller Picture of Special Services: A Critique of the Big Four

Tom Spencer

Despite this rosy picture, it is apparent that the opulence and prestige of this distinguished group of firms derives both from their overly privileged market position and conflicts of interest embedded deep within the industry. PwC held the No. Today, the Big Four exemplify oligopoly. Conflicts of interest.

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Full of Bull: Wall Street Analysts' S&P 500 Predicted Gains vs. Actual Gains 2001-2015

MishTalk

Mehta collected 186 public forecasts from 1998-2015 of the annual ritual of making market projections for the year ahead. For a couple years, when Barron’s data wasn’t easily available, Mehta used market prediction made in USA Today’s or similar surveys. Data prior to 2001 was for the Dow. Some of the firms are now extinct.

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

Harmonious Workplaces

In 1997, Jim promoted me from CSR (customer service representative) to assistant manager of Blockbuster within a few months just prior to my graduation from college. I also handled recruitment, payroll, inventory management, and other store operations. Here, the rubber met the road when I could take how I learned to train others at St.

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Ominous Looking Picture in Healthcare and Education Jobs

MishTalk

2001-01-01 36.8 2001-02-01 33.7 2001-03-01 28.0 2001-04-01 27.4 2001-05-01 29.7 2001-06-01 41.3 2001-07-01 38.3 2001-08-01 32.5 2001-09-01 25.2 2001-10-01 28.5 2001-11-01 27.1 2001-12-01 33.1 2008-01-01 35.1 2008-02-01 28.0 2008-03-01 30.6

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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

A controlled study involving leaders across different markets found a positive correlation between the leader's effectiveness and employee retention, sales, margin, labor costs, and net profit. times greater financial returns than market averages. Journal of Management, 14(3), 453-464. Journal of Management Research, 1(4), 254.

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Fed a Creature of Financial Markets; The Draghi PUT; Global Crisis Coming Up

MishTalk

Creature of Financial Markets Stephen Roach, former Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and the firm's chief economist, blasts the Greenspan Fed, the Bernanke Fed, and the Yellen Fed in his latest post The Perils of Fed Gradualism. A majority of financial market participants applaud this strategy. In fact, it is a dangerous mistake.

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Consultant Ninja: Friedman Billings Ramsey and Tom Peters.

Consultant Ninja

Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. Friedman Billings Ramsey was hot back in 2005 - boutique investment bank, middle market, a cool FBR acronym. The investment bank still operates as FBR Capital Markets.