Harvard Business

JULY 17, 2018

During Jeff Immelt’s tenure as CEO of General Electric, from 2001 until 2017, the company’s stock price fell by over 30%, a decline of roughly $150 billion in shareholder value. In my view, however, the structure and processes of the GE board were poorly designed for effectively overseeing Immelt and his management team.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 17, 2020

My experience with crisis management comes from two perspectives. There was 9/11 in 2001. My guidance has usually been in the context of a client seeing major drops in sales, engaging in layoffs, and redirecting the team in a productive direction (as opposed to being paralyzed by fear or working on their resumes). No, Thanks!

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MishTalk

MARCH 26, 2015

Durable Goods : On March 25 Durable Goods Orders Unexpectedly Decline, Business Spending Declines 6th Month Retail Sales Declined Third Month : On March 12, the Commerce Department announced retail sales were down for the third consecutive month. Economists blamed the weather.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 20, 2014

BearingPoint Managing Partner: Peter Mockler. This consulting business unit focused on both technology and management. Shortly after going public, the new KPMG Consulting, LLC management announced their intentions of some aggressive international acquisitions funded by their new IPO. BearingPoint Locations: 17 Countries.

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Harvard Business

MAY 12, 2017

The next recession, which came in 2001, was short and mild (GDP barely fell), but it took four years for the job market to heal, prompting the Federal Reserve to administer the economy a long course of low interest rates. Whole Foods, an upscale supermarket, employs six workers per million dollar of sales. In the U.S.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2016

.” A highly cited 2015 report on diversity in Silicon Valley by an Asian professional organization found that at five big tech firms (Google, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, LinkedIn, and Yahoo), Asians and Asian Americans are well represented in lower-level positions but underrepresented at management and executive levels.

Leadership 28

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MishTalk

APRIL 9, 2015

The sale wrapped up Mexico’s foreign capital-market financing needs for 2015, and comes as the government moves to reduce spending this year and next because of lower oil prices and expectations of tougher financing conditions in the future—particularly when the Fed begins raising interest rates. Today, one euro buys 16.1

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job. He tripled Microsoft’s sales to $78 billion and profits more than doubled from $9 billion to $22 billion. If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter-to-quarter or even year-to year-revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2017

But the move to SaaS comes with considerable challenges: Firms will need to change their structure , sales culture, and incentives , and convince existing as well as new customers of the new offering’s value. Disclosure: One of us works at Amazon Web Services, a provider for many SaaS businesses.).

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. The brand lacked identity and the books for the previous year showed a decline in net sales and a dive in profits.

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Sports Company Exercises Fashion 28

Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2018

I interviewed them about one of the last big crises for startups: the dot-com crash of 2000-2001. Senapathy “Kris” Gopalakrishnan, a co-founder of the India-based Infosys, saw his company’s market value on NASDAQ drop 90% from 2000 to 2001. David Kenny, then CEO of Digitas, a U.S.-based

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Financial Case Interview Company Advertising 29

MishTalk

MAY 21, 2014

I was on a project at US Bank in Minneapolis involving a merger or sale of a Piper Jeffrey trading system. I met Pater under a different name on Silicon Investor in 2001. Mike "Mish" Shedlock [link] Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Shortage of Skills?

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Harvard Business

MAY 28, 2018

With a $25,000 personal investment and a small office in her home, she began aggregating sales leads and aggressively acquiring customers through very traditional marketing means — like yellow page advertisements. It was 2001, and online advertising was at its nascent stage.

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Retail Advertising Media Data 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. But first they need to get management of a company to change the existing strategy. Then it wasn’t.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Figure 1 shows that the state of Illinois has run deficits in every fiscal year since 2001. A portion of these shortfalls were covered by asset sales and other one-time revenue sources, but most were covered by some form of borrowing. The $9 billion deficit represents 25 percent of that revenue.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 11, 2017

Looking at LVMH’s efforts, I’ll highlight three areas where I see great impact and innovation: managing carbon and energy, building a connection with customers around brand purpose, and working closely with suppliers. Managing Carbon and Energy. I’ll then discuss some of LVMH’s challenges.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2017

When Doug took over as CEO of Campbell Soup Company in 2001, the company had just lost half its market value, sales were declining, and the organization was reeling from a series of layoffs. Set Expectations. To start, Doug and colleagues made “ inspire trust” as its number one leadership competency.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

When Enron, one of the world’s largest energy companies, collapsed in 2001, it sent shock waves through the corporate world. Setting goals is one of the established tools that managers have to increase staff motivation and performance. We asked the participants to explain how they would respond to a realistic business scenario.

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Ethics Research Study Journal 28

MishTalk

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

“My personal belief is the trucking industry needs to realize production of goods will have ups and downs,” Satish Jindel, principal of SJ Consulting , which closely tracks industry pricing, told Logistics Management. Sales of Class 8 heavy trucks are on pace for one of the best years in history - around 260,000 units in North America.

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Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2016

This was the headquarters of Campbell Soup Company when one of us, Doug Conant, took the reins as CEO in 2001. This division was far outside his area of expertise—and his peers in supply chain, sales, and R&D knew it. Inside — drab colors, peeling paint, and dead plants decaying in the common areas. Was this a prison?

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Financial Culture Leadership Report 28

MishTalk

AUGUST 20, 2015

Economists are bubbly over home sales, especially existing home sales that came in at the top end of the Bloomberg Consensus range of 5.3 There's plenty of life in the housing sector with existing home sales up a stronger-than-expected 2.0 months at the current sales rate vs 4.9 months at the current sales rate vs 4.9

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Seth Godin Blog

JULY 10, 2014

Using the 80/20 rule as a guide, I realized that the top 30 titles probably accounted for more than 95% of their sales. Five full-time editors worked together (in my attic) and we built a desktop publishing system to collate and manage all the data we organized and presented. We sold more than a million of them.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Existing Home Sales Decline More Than Expected Existing home sales in August dipped 4.8% Though slowing in August, existing home sales are still healthy and trending higher. Though slowing in August, existing home sales are still healthy and trending higher. Existing home sales came in at a lower-than-expected 5.31

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MishTalk

APRIL 1, 2015

Among other things, she handles the structuring and sale of bonds for schools across the state. Rank-and-file officers rejected a city contract offer in 2001, but an arbitrator ruled in favor of the city’s wage proposal a year later. First let''s go over Culpepper''s background.

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. An outside-in perspective means that companies aim to creatively deliver something of value to customers, rather than focus simply on products and sales. How do they do it? Join the conversation.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Since 2001, English has been the international language of pilots and air traffic controllers, and airlines across the world have invested in English training programs for pilots, flight attendants, and other customer-facing staff. Executives usually have lower English levels than the managers they oversee.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

” What was reported to happen as a consequence of this shift was a steady decline in firms’ R&D intensity (R&D/Sales) and a corresponding decline in firms’ R&D capability. Again, this occurs because division manager compensation is tied to division profits. This is not a surprise.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

” For example, productivity has grown dramatically in the retail sector since 1990; inflation-adjusted sales per employee have grown by roughly 50%. Vox is a digital publishing company known, in part, for its proprietary content management system. And Apple was able to manage it because of its existing “architecture.”

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Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2016

I met Tony in 2001 when he was sent to me with severe muscle weakness. In 2001 Questcor bought the rights to Acthar Gel, which is used to treat infantile spasms, a rare form of childhood epilepsy. of total global prescription drug sales and is growing by 11.7% This idea deserves reexamination.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Our company, Frontier Strategy Group, recently polled 20 Latin America general managers about Venezuela’s contributions to their regional revenues. Moreover, mismanagement of the state-owned oil company PDVSA led to additional oil production cuts, leaving foreign reserves dwindling. Exodus of Multinationals.

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