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How Competition Is Driving AI’s Rapid Adoption

Harvard Business

The first is high-quality data from two corporate surveys conducted by MGI and McKinsey in 2007, one of around 1,600 executives across industries globally on digital technologies and AI to ascertain the causes of economic impact and the likely pace of that impact, and one of more than 3,000 corporations in 14 sectors in ten countries.

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Housing Starts in China Plunge 25%; Did China's Property Bubble Finally Burst?

MishTalk

And developers are pulling back, furloughing workers and delaying new projects. Economic data released on Tuesday also included a deceleration in industrial production, with growth in steel and cement output slowing to a crawl. Prices are falling for both new and old apartments. The volume of deals is drying up.

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Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation?

MishTalk

Minsky noted that ‘euphoria’ might develop at this stage. “A follow-the-leader process develops as firms and households see that speculators are making a lot of money. December 2007 (69). November 2007 (91). October 2007 (56). September 2007 (49). August 2007 (61). July 2007 (44).

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BIS Slams the Fed; Ridiculous Question of the Day: "Is The Fed Going To Attempt A Controlled Collapse?"

MishTalk

It could represent a hidden vulnerability, especially if backed by domestic currency cash flows derived from overextended sectors, such as property, or used for carry trades or other forms of speculative position-taking. This share was higher than during the pre-crisis period from 2005 to mid-2007.

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5 Ways the Best Companies Close the Strategy-Execution Gap

Harvard Business

Following the company’s go-private transaction in October 2013 , Dell put in place new models for strategy development, resource allocation, and performance management. Strategy development at Dell is no longer a batch process tied to some planning calendar; it is a continuous process. Value flexibility.

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Every Fast-Growing Company Has to Combat Overload

Harvard Business

But by the 1990s it had run aground: It hadn’t properly developed systems to implement its growth strategy internally, and so that strategy broke down at dozens of points of execution on the front line—with customers, crew, staff on the shore and the company’s travel agent partners. Make constant improvement a focus.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business

It started with developing a proprietary Corporate Horizon Index. To construct our Corporate Horizon Index, we identified five financial indicators, selected because they matched up with five hypotheses we had developed about the ways in which long- and short-term companies might differ. rate for other companies.