MishTalk

AUGUST 7, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation? Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market. John Hussman had a thought-provoking article this week on the The Minsky Bubble.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

The odds are stacked against new products or services. We have diagnosed thousands of product failures over the last 30 years, and have found recurring patterns. Often new products are over-engineered with too many features, usually at too high a price. The problem with wildly successful products. How could they not have?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Killing products isn’t easy. Engineers and managers toil for months, often years, to conceive, develop, and launch new products. They invest significant resources in research, marketing, and distribution. They are focused on a narrow set of products under their purview. Know the big picture.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 25, 2020

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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CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

In contrast, my favorite boardroom belonged to a clothing retail chain in California during the Great Recession of 2008. I believe a well-run business is one with a well-defined target customer, a well-differentiated product, and sound financial ratios. Gross Margin = Price of Your Product - Cost of the Product.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2016

On January 11, 2008, a day when the broader markets were only down three-quarters of 1%, American Express, led by legendary CEO Ken Chenault, dropped 10% when Oppenheimer analyst Meredith Whitney lowered her rating of the firm. In all, we studied about 19,500 downgrades and 17,400 upgrades from 1996 to 2008.

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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.

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BCG

JULY 20, 2016

Article Wednesday, July 20, 2016. Brexit has certainly thrown markets, exchange rates, and consumer confidence into turmoil, but the model of globalization that has developed over the past 200 years started showing signs of change well before the referendum. Is globalization over? We, however, take a different view.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 5, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Economic theory holds that such basic changes will, over time, improve standards of living by making us more productive and less wasteful. Sitka Pacific. Recent Posts. Featured Links. Big Picture.

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MishTalk

JUNE 25, 2014

Some of it is so bad you wonder if the authors understand how any markets work, not just the topic of discussion. Arguably, one of the best measures of sentiment on gold is articles like the one above. As another measure of alleged euphoria, please note " gold assets in exchange-traded products have shrunk to the smallest since 2009 ".

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MishTalk

JANUARY 21, 2014

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. Financial markets have become wobbly lately as growth momentum cools off. The hope that the U.S.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 3, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Gross domestic product -3.7 -0.3 The above table condensed from IMF Executive Board Concludes 2013 Article IV Consultation with Spain. Sitka Pacific. Recent Posts. Featured Links.

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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.

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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.

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MishTalk

JUNE 27, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Michael Pettis at China Financial Markets commented on the liquidity crunch and spike in SHIBOR a few days ago via email. Sitka Pacific. Recent Posts. Featured Links. Automatic Earth. Big Picture.

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MishTalk

JULY 16, 2014

Readers of our letters are familiar with our long-standing assessment that the cause of slower growth is the overly indebted economy with too much non-productive debt. According to the OECD, Japan’s PSR for 2014 will be 0.6%, virtually unchanged from 2008. percentage points from 2008. treasury market.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 27, 2014

The problem is that at these stratospheric valuations, the market does not need to suffer an ACTUAL recession to see a crash. Like October 1987, just the fear of recession will be enough to trigger a massive market move. This suggests to me a continued misplaced market (over)-confidence about central banks’ ability to control events.

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Harvard Business

MAY 2, 2017

However, 48% of the mid-sized world market leaders come from Germany. Nearly all of them survived the great recession of 2008-2009. This article is one in a series related to the 9th Global Peter Drucker Forum, taking place in November 2017 in Vienna, Austria. This has allowed them to reach 70% of market share in this category.

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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. It demonstrates accuracy in thinking, confirms people’s fears, and redirects those fears toward productive action. There was the dot-com boom and crash of 2000.

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Consultant Ninja

JUNE 24, 2009

Actual products, actual service, actual value to clients. I looked through the financials, the marketing plan, the exit strategy, and saw it was pretty light. your damn article so making sense. Productivity. (6). At one point I was an entrepreneur, and every day I got stuff done. and getting pretty much nothing done.

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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. Maxx and Marshalls—which compete aggressively on price. Price competition hurts.

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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. Third-quarter Gross Domestic Product grew at a 1.5 The actual growth rate for 2008 turned out to be –2.8%—the

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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.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 5, 2018

An example of the difficulties of competing for dependence can be seen in the rise of the “ DIY-economy ,” which was particularly pronounced after the 2008 recession. Interestingly, customers have varied preferences for retailers depending on the product category. Therefore, the retail market is actually several markets.

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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. Product and Service Innovation. Consumer Products.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 6, 2012

IN A RECENT article by Bloomberg Businessweek , assistant managing editor Brian Bremmer reports that investigators in America, Canada, Japan, the UK, and the EU are trying to determine whether a handful of brokers and traders have manipulated LIBOR. .” by Tom Spencer on March 6, 2012 · 4 comments  ·  Image Source.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – search, mobile, and the cloud were where Microsoft users were heading. They are hard to do in a company that excels at products. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 18, 2015

Interest is roughly 0% so it effectively makes no difference whether money earns nothing in a "savings" account rather than nothing in a checking account, or nothing in a money market account. Here's a better way of stating the problem, also from the article. The proper way to view savings is production minus consumption.

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Consultant Ninja

MAY 3, 2009

If you get caught up in the marketing BS from Kays Jewelers, you might as well stop reading now since youre going to pay above-market price for a below-market diamond. Diamonds are not particularly rare, just tightly controlled and well marketed. Productivity. (6). Its not like adopting a baby, or picking a wife.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2018

In November, United States’ crude oil production exceeded 10 million barrels per day for the first time since 1970, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). The recent price swings highlight a new era of uncertainty gripping the world’s energy markets. hbr staff/bettmann/Getty Images.

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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. Ally isn’t expected to start offering risky products the way GMAC did, according to Jeff Davis at Mercer Capital. Back in the Saddle Bloomberg reports writes Ally Returns to Mortgage Business Two Years After Total Exit.

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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. We suggested in a recent article that pure advice from even the most elite consultants would be put at risk by machine learning.

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Harvard Business

MAY 19, 2016

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, there was a lively debate among policy makers and academics about whether a similar gap “ between the skills workers have and the skills businesses say they need ” contributed to the increase in unemployment. The labor force adjusted to a new technology replacing an older one.

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Consultant Ninja

JULY 27, 2009

They also happen to be expensive, not because some greedy fat cat is out there, but because that high price justifies the ROI for the R&D in that product in the first place. No need to worry about supply side; a free market consisting of only young, healthy, rich people basically runs itself. July 27, 2009 at 11:21 PM. Hammerspace.

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Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 31, 2024

Side Note: In a subsequent article, I may write about my observations, training, and experience as a drum circle facilitator many years ago. However, this article will concentrate on listening to music for motivation and performance. I have also found that certain types of music have kept me focused on work. Glowinski, D.,

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 4, 2015

I ask that question in regards to a few recent news articles. One is on Japan, one the US, and one on emerging markets with various overlaps in between. Japan is on the verge of a technical recession after data on industrial production raised the prospect of a second consecutive quarter of negative growth. per cent fall in July.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2018

Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy played a big role in stabilizing Europe after the 2008 financial crisis, but they made an odd couple in public and mocked each other in private. In a recent study , intragroup trust was found to be the best predictor of productive task conflict, without creating relationship or personal conflict.

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