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Persistent Overoptimism Three Ways: Truckers, Fed Economists, Manufacturers

MishTalk

Of course, there is also persistent overoptimism about earnings growth and stock market expectations. Third-quarter Gross Domestic Product grew at a 1.5 In November 2007, the Federal Open Market Committee began releasing projections for real GDP growth four times per year in its Summary of Economic Projections (SEP).

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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. Once one of the most powerful companies in the world, today the company has a market capitalization of less than $1 billion. Why did this happen? It was so close.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business

GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment through the internet of things and analytical software with a suite of products called Predix Cloud. During Immelt’s tenure, GE’s stock market value fell by about half. Andreessen’s article helped accelerate the company’s digital transformation.