MishTalk

JULY 19, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Philadelphia : 5th Largest City in US is Effectively Bankrupt; Mayor Holds Closed Meeting With Wall Street to Discuss Asset Sales. Sitka Pacific. Recent Posts. Featured Links. Automatic Earth.

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Analysis Trends Real Estate Financial 78

MishTalk

JULY 30, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. “Additionally, everybody we talk to in the industry thinks this is a bad idea that will be bad for the mortgage markets.” California passed Proposition 99 in 2008. Recent Posts.

Real Estate 75

Real Estate Case Interview Financial Advertising 75

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. The terms of sale call for Hood and Schultz to get $50,000 in cash and 19,192 shares of Cannabis Sativa, Inc., The stock is currently trading under the CBDS ticker symbol at $8.55

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Trends Report Sales Operations 64

MishTalk

JUNE 29, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Much of the article is about how he almost tipped a ship while in the Navy. Should you as a bond investor jump overboard and risk the cold money market Atlantic Ocean at near zero degrees?

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Analysis Trends Real Estate Financial 70

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. There’s no problem,” but your sales team knows that sales fell by 50%, they will scratch their heads. There was the dot-com boom and crash of 2000.

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Leadership Case Interview Interviews Sales 88

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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Advertising Turnaround Resources Comparison 43

MishTalk

JANUARY 29, 2015

CPI - Urban Consumers - All Items - Percent Change From Year Ago As measured by consumer prices, inflation went negative from December 2008 until October 2009. Food An article on Yahoo Finance on January 16 caught my eye and I bookmarked it: Yes, you ARE paying more for food. Now the sale price is $7.99 Not on sale?

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Sales Trends Analysis Finance 28

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.

Retail 34

Retail Sales Productivity Industry 34

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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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. Sales of Class 8 heavy trucks are on pace for one of the best years in history - around 260,000 units in North America.

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Balance Sheet Banking Study Policies 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. Will Booz be on par with the top 3 someday?”

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Interviews Culture Company Case Interview 181

Harvard Business

AUGUST 22, 2016

Chris Zook and James Allen have also recently tackled this issue their recent HBR article “ Reigniting Growth.” The voluminous case studies and articles about the firm would fill entire file cabinets in the typical business school storage area. Eliminate bureaucracy. Rediscover the mission.

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Company Sales Retail Engineering 28

Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

Some products are truly innovative but stay walled up too long in R&D and then are released to market when they are no longer unique. The product, owned by Germany’s Brandstatter Group, generated 90% of the firm’s $696 million in sales last year. The luxury SUV that set a record for pre-sales. Most definitely.

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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

APRIL 26, 2017

During the Great Recession of 2008, companies around the world downsized their workforces. American firms alone laid off more than 8 million workers from the end of 2008 to the middle of 2010. Proponents of downsizing argue that it is an effective strategy, with benefits such as increased performance and sales.

Company 28

Company Balance Sheet Resources Financial 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. 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

OCTOBER 20, 2016

If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job. He tripled Microsoft’s sales to $78 billion and profits more than doubled from $9 billion to $22 billion. These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – search, mobile, and the cloud were where Microsoft users were heading.

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Operations Productivity Software Talent 28

MishTalk

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Average per-mile rates on the spot market fell again for all three major truckload segments in November, according to data from loadboard Truckstop.com. This is the fourth straight month that rates dipped in all three segments, continuing a now year-long downward trend spurred by both a major drop in diesel prices and market conditions.

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Sales Report Trends Real Estate 28

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

APRIL 14, 2017

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department. AI wasn’t new at Microsoft.

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Company Survey Finance Engineering 41

MishTalk

APRIL 12, 2015

pinged me with an article he had written on Recessionary Level in Credit Conditions. His article was based on data from the March Credit Managers'' Index by the National Association of Credit Management. The most drastic fall took place with the unfavorable factors that indicate the real distress in the credit market.

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Comparison Data Trends Company 28

Management Consulted

MAY 10, 2015

In 2005, the Hay Group was asked to provide the research for Chief Executive Magazine’s “Best Companies for Leaders” In 2008, “Senior Leadership Teams” an article written by Hay Group staff members was published by Harvard Business School Press. Enterprise sales effectiveness. Practice Areas. Capability assessment.

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Groups Interviews Culture Case Interview 100

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. Therefore, the retail market is actually several markets. How to make your company more nimble and responsive. Competition for preference.

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Retail Examples Accenture Productivity 32

MishTalk

MARCH 12, 2015

Debt matters - $30 Trillion – up $9 trillion since 2008 Debt is 200-300% of GDP counting Shadow Banks. Orange and lemon groves turn to useless, vacant housing Property 20% of GDP and tracking negative (sales and pricing). China''s total debt has sprouted from 153 percent of gross domestic product in 2008 to 282 percent today.

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Banking Government Video Financial 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 24, 2017

In the years to come, even after seemingly strong performance, commentators would breathlessly describe Microsoft as having a lost decade , despite tripling sales and increasing profit from $9 billion to $22 billion. At some level, it appears that markets hold high expectations for these firms to grow.

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Comparison Marketing Research Journal 29

MishTalk

MAY 18, 2015

Mark Glennon at WirePoints explains S&P, slated to rate upcoming Chicago bond sale, goes comparatively easy on downgrade. A February 2011 New York Times article explains: A Corporate Sleuth Tries the Credit Rating Field. After all, the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 laid bare the conflicts at the heart of the ratings game.

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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

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. Or they may even put the entire company up for sale.

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Balance Sheet Financial Journal Company 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 5, 2018

The chief marketing officers at consumer products companies, the heads of design at luxury apparel companies, and the heads of logistics at large retailers are cases in point. The jobs are in sales, customer contact centers, and field service positions. Or they may be people who interact with customers after the sale.

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Talent McKinsey Apparel Sales 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.

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Operations Comparison Transportation Marketing 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2016

They invest significant resources in research, marketing, and distribution. What proves trickier is to yank lackluster offerings with sales that mildly disappoint — products that perform poorly but are not clear-cut cases for withdrawal. Firms might leave products on the market well past their prime.

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Productivity Resources Research Advertising 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Consider Tesla: before Elon Musk became CEO in 2008, the electric car company had delivered fewer than 200 cars and was running out of cash. Ten years later, it could produce, albeit with extraordinary measures, 5,000 cars a month and had a higher market value than Ford’s.

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

I did a search for the term "browser war" and discovered this December 19, 2014 ZDNet article: Did the browser wars finally end in 2014? Google took over in 2008, introducing its Chrome browser, which caught up with Firefox by 2012. And in 2014, all those players seem to have dug in to well-entrenched positions.

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Balance Sheet Engineering Policies Marketing 28

Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2018

Recall that Nokia dominated the mobile and smartphone markets in 2007-2008 when Apple launched the iPhone and Google the Android operating system. As part of this research, we conducted 120 interviews, including nine with board members and 19 with top managers.

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Strategy Strategy Strategy& Analysis 28

CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 21, 2020

It’s an insight that I shared with a few thousand CEOs during the 2008 to 2009 Great Recession. The old way of thinking: “We are better than our competitors, so we should be winning sales.”. It turns out that all of their sales and marketing materials were geared toward the message, “why buy from us vs. another direct competitor.”.

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Case Interview McKinsey Interviews Sales 105

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Although the use of brands’ mobile apps has exploded since 2008, “brand app fatigue” is starting to settle in. Smart companies are already moving up the learning curve and building relevant marketing and IT skills. Users are already in the habit of interacting on messaging apps.

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Company Retail Training Training 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 11, 2017

The companies that are most vocal about environmental and social issues tend to be big, mass-market brands — well-known retailers , consumer products giants , and tech firms that are telling a new story to consumers who increasingly care about sustainability. Like many luxury brands, Krug was struggling after the 2008 financial crisis.

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Energy Productivity Retail Financial 28