2008 2016 Finance Sales 
Martinka Consulting
APRIL 26, 2019
Record number of small business sales in 2018! More businesses sold after being advertised on bizbuysell.com than any other year, and 2017 was 25% higher than 2016. 70% of medium sized companies will change hands (2008). Notice the same predictions from 2008-2015? This as per bizbuysell.com. Pretty small. And guess what?
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 4, 2018
It also hurts the brands sold inside the stores, which in part explains why consumer product giants like Procter & Gamble are seeing their sales stagnate for products like Tide detergent, Gillette razors, Pampers diapers, and Crest toothpaste. Consultancy Catalina also revealed that 90 of the 100 top brands had all lost market share.
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Harvard Business
JULY 17, 2018
The Board Had No Finance Committee. GE’s board had another major structural defect: It lacked a finance committee. As I have explained elsewhere , a finance committee is critical for a board in complex public companies like GE, which are involved in a broad range of retirement plans, stock buybacks, and large acquisitions.
Harvard Business
APRIL 14, 2017
Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. Four years ago, an Oxford University study predicted 47% of jobs could be automated by 2033. AI wasn’t new at Microsoft.
Harvard Business
JANUARY 12, 2018
Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. At the end of 2016, Fitch Ratings estimated that all robo-advisors managed under U.S.$100B will grow to U.S. $5 5 trillion to U.S. $7
MishTalk
NOVEMBER 20, 2015
As surface transportation’s peak period ends for the year, and trucking eyes the traditionally slowest time for the industry as first quarter 2016, economic signals are, at best, mixed. Sales of Class 8 heavy trucks are on pace for one of the best years in history - around 260,000 units in North America. in October from 50.2
MishTalk
MARCH 1, 2015
with the Federal Reserve keeping its overnight target close to zero since 2008. Chicago has 15 agreements tied to variable-rate general-obligation debt and one to variable-rate sales-tax bonds, according to Moody’s. They can backfire when interest rates move in an unexpected direction, as happened in the U.S.
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