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Inside a Fortune 500 Boardroom

CaseInterview.com

In contrast, my favorite boardroom belonged to a clothing retail chain in California during the Great Recession of 2008. If you know finance, especially the finance of retail businesses, that’s nearly impossible. Gross Margin = Price of Your Product - Cost of the Product. but was still profitable!

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Strong Economy – Strong Buy-Sell Market

Martinka Consulting

70% of medium sized companies will change hands (2008). Notice the same predictions from 2008-2015? We have a few articles in our “writing folder” (articles I’ve saved to write about) on bad management, how technology is replacing people, and employee unhappiness. Synergistic product line firm. And guess what?

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New Zealand’s Financial Crises Resilience

Tom Spencer

I have written multiple financial crises articles in the past but have yet to touch on my home turf, New Zealand. This article will discuss some of the points of resilience from the last GFC and whether those points will persist in today’s rocky economic climate. Flexible exchange rate, product and labour markets.

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Digital Growth Depends More on Business Models than Technology

Harvard Business

Given that those companies were all venture-financed and emerged from Silicon Valley, you might assume that the key ingredients that have ensured their success were cutting-edge technologies, digital platforms, and customer bases that were chiefly made up of digital natives. In other words, they had great business models.

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Keynes Is Dead, Abenomics Fizzles, US Fails to Reach Escape Velocity, Stimulus Fatigue

MishTalk

Economist Andy Xie has an interesting article in CaixinOnline that contains his views on 2014. Today''s information technology allows a multinational company to position research, marketing, finance and managerial jobs to anywhere. The 2008 crisis prompted a pause. I agree with nearly all his viewpoints but one.

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Message to 5.7 Million Truck Drivers "No Drivers Needed"

MishTalk

Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. Economic theory holds that such basic changes will, over time, improve standards of living by making us more productive and less wasteful. Comments to the article show that truck drivers refuse to accept reality. Minyanville Business and Market News.

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Headline #1: "Most Americans Have Less than $1,000 in Savings"; Headline #2: People Saving Too Much is Now a Problem

MishTalk

Approximately 62% of Americans have less than $1,000 in their savings accounts and 21% don’t even have a savings account, according to a new survey of more than 5,000 adults conducted this month by Google Consumer Survey for personal finance website GOBankingRates.com. Here's a better way of stating the problem, also from the article.

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