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ZS Associates Firm Profile

Management Consulted

Today’s emphasis is on ZS Associates (pronounced Zee S in the USA) – a premier boutique firm focused on sales force and marketing optimization. Upon realizing that their findings were highly applicable to the problems of sales force sizing and resource allocation, they decided to investigate further. sales force teams.

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Magazine Ad Revenues Plunge; Google Collects Half of Mobile

MishTalk

In one indicator of the difficulties facing news magazines, Newsweek—which saw ad pages decline by 60% from 2002 to 2012—discontinued its print edition at the end of 2012. Initial industry monitoring of digital advertising revenue for some magazine iPad versions found that sales increased about 25% in the first half of 2013.

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Bill Gross Discusses the.

MishTalk

The Fed, we would argue, is too cyclically oriented, focusing substantially on housing prices and car sales. Will the Fed ignore housing like it did between 2002 and 2007? December 2008 (85). November 2008 (78). October 2008 (108). September 2008 (140). August 2008 (93). July 2008 (104).

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What GE’s Board Could Have Done Differently

Harvard Business

Since the Sarbanes–Oxley Act in 2002, audit committees do not have enough time to carry out their prescribed list of detailed duties as well as to deal effectively with these broader issues of capital allocation. After the demise of Enron in 2002, many U.S.

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The Best Approach to Decision Making Combines Data and Managers’ Expertise

Harvard Business

In a 2002 HBR article titled “Predicting the Unpredictable,” my business partner Eric Bonabeau introduced the concept of a gent-based simulation (ABS), which at that time was a relatively novel approach to solving complex business problems through computer simulations.

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Persistent Overoptimism Three Ways: Truckers, Fed Economists, Manufacturers

MishTalk

UPS Freight , the fifth-largest LTL, reported tonnage off 10 percent (matching the record decline reported in the 2009 3Q during the depth of the Great Recession) and shipments down 5 percent year over year (the worst drop since 2008 fourth quarter). Overoptimism 2008-2010 The SEP growth forecast for 2008 never turned negative.

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Credit Crunch Underway: Can Recession Be Far Behind?

MishTalk

The category of sales slid to 57.9 It is suddenly very hard to get and this looks like the situation that existed at the start of the recession in 2008 [2007 actually]. The overall economy didn’t look all that bad in late 2008, except that there was a dearth of credit and that soon led to business failures and struggles.