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Lettuce Bot - Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis

MishTalk

Minyanville Business and Market News. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Robots will cost plenty - for the largest farming operations, millions of dollars - but farm operators say the expense will be worth it. Sitka Pacific. Recent Posts. Featured Links.

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Mergers May Be Profitable, but Are They Good for the Economy?

Harvard Business

In recent research, we provide new evidence that while mergers may raise profits, many fail to deliver efficiency gains that could increase overall prosperity. manufacturing plants from 1997 through 2007, an important and diverse sector of the U.S. Firms engage in mergers because they see a profitable opportunity.

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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

Oliver Wyman’s CEO, John Drzik, states that the long-term aspiration is to be recognized widely in the market as the gold standard in consulting. In 2007, Mercer Oliver Wyman joined with Mercer Management Consulting and Mercer Delta to become Oliver Wyman groups (also includes Lippincott and NERA Economic Consulting).

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How the Great Recession Changed Banking

Harvard Business

The market panicked. The Great Recession of 2007 to 2009 was under way. This is most apparent in the credit markets, where revenues have shrunk by more than 40% from pre-crisis peaks. Defaults on subprime mortgage loans mounted. There was a run on British bank Northern Rock. Over the next year, many banks fell.

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The Best Companies Know How to Balance Strategy and Purpose

Harvard Business

Before the iPhone was introduced, in 2007, Nokia was the dominant mobile phone maker with a clearly stated purpose — “Connecting people” — and an aggressive strategy for sustaining market dominance. The once-dominant Nokia soon lost much of its market cap and was eventually acquired by Microsoft.

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Conversation with North Highland

Tom Spencer

Founded in 1992, North Highland is an employee-owned global management consulting firm that has been named as a Best Firm to Work For every year since 2007 by Consulting Magazine. We recently reviewed our career progression guidelines and expectations and updated to reflect our current environment and our growth plan in the market.

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business

In 2007 Harvard Business School professor Ethan S. In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. A great salesperson will operate much more efficiently with a defined process for reaching out to prospects.

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