BCG

AUGUST 16, 2016

Article Tuesday, August 16, 2016. On the left side, record each mention of an internal topic, such as financial or operational performance, plans, metrics, organization, employees, or culture. Consumer-facing companies in developed economies have experienced little or no growth since the global recession of 2008 and 2009.

Company 40

Company Metrics Media Operations 40

BCG

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Article Thursday, October 27, 2016. But companies such as Netflix depend on broadband and mobile connectivity and, therefore, on operators that have the financial resources to expand their networks. The connectivity of the entire stack, in other words, depends on the health of telecommunications operators.

Telecommunications 40

Telecommunications Operations Industry Financial 40

CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

In contrast, my favorite boardroom belonged to a clothing retail chain in California during the Great Recession of 2008. Business A can be profitable if it grows revenues enough to cover the non-product-related operating costs (such as sales, marketing, customer service, finance, and human resources). but was still profitable!

Case Interview 59

Case Interview Retail Finance Conference 59

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 5, 2016

For decades, experts and policy wonks have argued that health care is a uniquely inefficient industry, insulated from conventional market forces that operate in the rest of the economy. Poorly performing hospitals do not feel pressure from patients to improve quality because standard market forces do not apply to health care.

Marketing 28

Marketing Research Travel Study 28

MishTalk

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Chris Hood and Jon Schultz paid $13,500 for the rights to Ebola.com back in 2008 and have just sold it to a company called Weed Growth Fund. a company run by former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson that hopes to market legal cannabis products throughout the world. The stock is currently trading under the CBDS ticker symbol at $8.55

Trends 64

Trends Report Sales Operations 64

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 14, 2018

I explained this in an article that was published in Harvard Business Review in 2008, before any of those companies began, and, now, 10 years later, that still holds true, as more and more of the business discourse is focused on digital transformation. In other words, they had great business models.

Advertising 44

Advertising Turnaround Resources Comparison 44

MishTalk

AUGUST 5, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Traditionally, these trucks would require four drivers to operate 24 hours a day. Comments to the article show that truck drivers refuse to accept reality. Sitka Pacific. Recent Posts.

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Real Estate Financial Trends Advertising 78

MishTalk

DECEMBER 26, 2015

Thus, it cannot be much of a surprise to learn Amazon Starting its Own Air Cargo Operation. Cargo Facts reported today [December 18] that Amazon is building its own cargo operation and is in talks with Boeing to acquire up to 20 767-freighter jets to help deliver packages to customers around the U.S.

Transportation 28

Transportation Operations System Report 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

Data is now the critical tool for managing many corporate functions, including marketing, pricing, supply chain, operations, and more. Addressing this dichotomy requires individuals who can “serve as liaisons” between the two, as Todd Clark and Dan Wiesenfeld suggested in a recent HBR article. Insight Center.

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Data Management Methodologies Tools 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In the traditional model of electricity generation, large power plants produce power at a centralized location, which operates at a considerable distance from the points of consumption. electric utilities during 2008-2015—a period in which the decentralized model was in its uncertain, nascent phase. A rare natural experiment.

Company 28

Company Research Software Operations 28

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. Companies are both operators and investors. And, will they shake up the trillion-dollar corporate consulting and advisory industry?

Strategy 28

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Consulting 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Microsoft ended the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – search, mobile, and the cloud were where Microsoft users were heading. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times.

Operations 28

Operations Productivity Software Talent 28

MishTalk

DECEMBER 12, 2015

For those looking for a bit of humor this weekend, here's an article for the "just in the nick of time" bucket. The bank has no plans to securitize its originations, and it won’t keep any servicing rights or build out a servicing operation, Ally spokeswoman Gina Proia said in an e-mail. financial conference in New York.

Mercer 28

Mercer Balance Sheet Automotive Banking 28

MishTalk

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Since then, I have seen a couple articles regarding overoptimism at the Fed and overoptimism in trucking. Of course, there is also persistent overoptimism about earnings growth and stock market expectations. Operating revenue decreased 15.9 Overoptimism 2008-2010 The SEP growth forecast for 2008 never turned negative.

Balance Sheet 28

Balance Sheet Banking Study Policies 28

Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. But corporate leaders today seem to agree that strategic alignment is high on the list.

Banking 42

Banking Film Strategy Strategy 42

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Hoping to alleviate their concerns, this article also provides concrete examples of how sustainability benefits the bottom line. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

Study 28

Study Efficiency Productivity Operations 28

Management Consulted

AUGUST 28, 2013

Early on, he wrote many articles about his real passion of “taking the measure” on business problems. Today, Booz Allen Hamilton and Booz & Company still reign in the federal sector – they own the highest percentage of the market in the government sector. Operations and Logistics. Organization and Change. Automotive.

Interviews 181

Interviews Culture Company Case Interview 181

Management Consulted

MAY 10, 2015

The Hay Group carried on growing for the next 20 years, expanding its operations and its global reach. Below them is a team of five global managing directors, each owning a different sector: mature markets, fast-growing markets, productized services, people-delivered services, and expertise & knowledge management.

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Groups Interviews Culture Case Interview 100

Consultant Ninja

JULY 27, 2009

Structural Driver: The organizations in the health care system operate inefficient operational structures. I fail to see the logic that the government will be more efficient at building operational structures than the private sector. There's an excellent article in last week's Economist on this. at 8:21 PM.

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Consulting Insurance Insurance Oliver Wyman 113

CaseInterview.com

MARCH 17, 2020

First, I have helped my CEO clients navigate multiple industry, capital market, and economic crises over the past 25 years. There was the Great Recession in 2008. I’ve also led mass casualty training exercises as a field operations leader and incident commander. My experience with crisis management comes from two perspectives.

Leadership 88

Leadership Case Interview Interviews Sales 88

Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Hedge funds have gained increased attention over the years, with their involvement in financial markets drawing interest from investors, media, and the general public. However, many people still struggle to grasp what exactly hedge funds are and how they operate.

Strategy 88

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Financial 88

MishTalk

JANUARY 18, 2016

Diving Into Rumors Zero Hedge has an interesting post on Saturday entitled Dallas Fed Quietly Suspends Energy Mark-To-Market On Default Contagion Fears. In his post, ZeroHedge claims " The Dallas Fed met with the banks a week ago and effectively suspended mark-to-market on energy debts and as a result no impairments are being written down.

Energy 28

Energy Banking Journal Report 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market. The soaring U.S.

Cash Flow 32

Cash Flow Transportation Balance Sheet Energy 32

MishTalk

MARCH 1, 2015

Last week I wrote an article for the Illinois Policy Institute on the hugely unfunded and deteriorating nature of numerous Illinois'' pension systems. I will post the article on Monday. My article was on on state pension systems, not Chicago''s, and was written well ahead of downgrades of Chicago''s debt by Moody''s on Friday.

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System Operations Report Financial 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 10, 2016

On August 1 Uber announced that it is selling its Chinese brand and operations to Didi Chuxing for $1 billion, its annual burn rate in that market, in exchange for a 20% stake in the local competitor. While the deal triggered a flurry of articles, they mostly have repeated the few facts that are known so far, with a few variations.

Operations 28

Operations Comparison Transportation Marketing 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe.

Government 28

Government Banking System Finance 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Increase operating margins to 18% (by cutting expenses).

Balance Sheet 28

Balance Sheet Financial Journal Company 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex. But the other indicators probably pick up legitimate differences in how companies in the sample operate, as opposed to whether they are myopic. Are all share repurchases myopic?

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Metrics Study Cash Flow McKinsey 29

MishTalk

DECEMBER 22, 2014

The president said the hack on the Hollywood studio was not an act of war but was “very costly”, and could land Pyongyang back on the administration’s terror list, a designation lifted by the Bush administration in 2008 during nuclear talks. I’ll wait to review what the findings are.”

Interviews 70

Interviews Film Case Interview Policies 70

Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2018

While this “lab-bench to bedside” approach has improved healthcare globally, it can take years, even decades, for an innovation to get to market, often with limited input from patients themselves. Challenges. Enlist project managers and ensure clear roles and responsibilities for all centre employees. Acknowledgements.

Healthcare 32

Healthcare Metrics Engineering Financial 32

MishTalk

JANUARY 11, 2016

Please consider the New York Times article Ratings Agencies Still Coming Up Short, Years After Crisis by Gretchen Morgenson. The mistakes that led to the 2008 mortgage crisis can’t happen again, right? Free market competition, not additional regulation is the cure. But don't blame them.

Construction 28

Construction Company Analysis Marketing 28

MishTalk

JULY 11, 2014

Earlier today, reader Charles asked me what I thought about an article on ZeroHedge entitled " Is The Fed Going To Attempt A Controlled Collapse? " The BIS slam, coupled with a recent stock market selloff, brought up debate on a " controlled collapse ". Increased risk-taking also manifested itself in other credit market segments.

Balance Sheet 74

Balance Sheet Financial Banking Policies 74

Harvard Business

APRIL 24, 2017

Yet they involve significant risks in selection, pricing, and integration, and markets often respond negatively to their announcements. In the period between 1991 and 2008, our sample yielded 75 firms classified as “most admired” (which we refer to as “high reputation”) at least once.

Comparison 29

Comparison Marketing Research Journal 29

Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2016

On Google’s earnings call for the first quarter of 2006 – more than a year before the iPhone was released and more than two years before the release of the first Android-operated smartphone – CEO Eric Schmidt went out of his way to talk about mobile. In 2011 we were playing a bit of catch-up compared to the market.

Turnaround 28

Turnaround Data Operations Company 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

This sentiment allowed Lee Kun-hee, the father of Lee Jae-yong, to be pardoned by the government twice, in 2008 for tax evasion and breach of trust, and in 1997 for bribing a former South Korean president. Samsung’s operating profits rose by 128% (USD $6.12 How has the stock market responded to the guilty verdict?

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Study Company System Leadership 28

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 7, 2014

In 2000, the group launched its first website, www.bridgespan.org, and started operations from a Boston-based office. In 2008, Bridgespan redesigned its website in an attempt to provide better knowledge transfer. Tierney came on board as the third co-founder in 1999 and stepped aside as Bain’s CEO in 2000 to focus on Bridgespan.

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Interviews Culture Bain Consulting 150

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

When a private equity firm adds a new company to its portfolio, analysts rigorously size up its financial, operational, and competitive condition. What’s more, the demand for rapid growth often comes with a push from investors to enter new markets or ramp up product innovation. In fact, management consultancy Bain & Co.

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