Martinka Consulting

APRIL 26, 2019

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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Marketing PricewaterhouseCoopers Cash Flow Banking 40

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 48

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

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Trends Report Sales Operations 64

MishTalk

AUGUST 5, 2013

Economic theory holds that such basic changes will, over time, improve standards of living by making us more productive and less wasteful. 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. in Scranton, Pa. No Drivers Needed.

Real Estate 78

Real Estate Financial Trends Advertising 78

CaseInterview.com

MARCH 17, 2020

There was the Great Recession in 2008. My guidance has usually been in the context of a client seeing major drops in sales, engaging in layoffs, and redirecting the team in a productive direction (as opposed to being paralyzed by fear or working on their resumes). I’ll refer to some of these experiences in a moment.

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Leadership Case Interview Interviews Sales 88

Management Consulted

AUGUST 28, 2013

Early on, he wrote many articles about his real passion of “taking the measure” on business problems. 2008 was when the split came, and Booz Allen Hamilton (parent company) divided in 2. The focus of this article is on Booz & Company because of its focus on strategy. Product and Service Innovation. Consumer Products.

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Interviews Culture Company Case Interview 181

Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2017

The blizzard of conferences, initiatives, articles, and reports on how to prepare for the changes technology will bring to our economy is important. Mercadona’s store employees are empowered to order products and present them in a way that satisfies their customers and improves company performance.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Hoping to alleviate their concerns, this article also provides concrete examples of how sustainability benefits the bottom line. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. ” Improving risk management.

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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). They are hard to do in a company that excels at products. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. And services have a very different business model.

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Operations Productivity Software Talent 28

Consulting Success

JANUARY 15, 2018

This Silicon Valley-based previous electrical engineer with a passion for theater studied at Carnegie Mellon, then started his career in product marketing and sales before becoming a VP General Manager. Global Context was formed back in 2008, just prior to the stock market crash. It’s the great paradox of successful companies.

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Marketing Consulting How To Culture 202

Harvard Business

MARCH 24, 2017

In the 1920s, a series of experiments were conducted at Hawthorne Works, a Western Electric telephone factory just outside Chicago, to study the effects of lighting on worker productivity. The researchers concluded that it was the act of being studied , not the lighting, that made workers increase their productivity.

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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. 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

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

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). output comes from fracking operations that have cut costs dramatically since slumping prices in 2014 forced dozens of companies into bankruptcy.

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Cash Flow Transportation Balance Sheet Energy 34

Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2016

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

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Banking Film Strategy Strategy 46

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.

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Company Research Software Operations 28

MishTalk

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Since then, I have seen a couple articles regarding overoptimism at the Fed and overoptimism in trucking. Third-quarter Gross Domestic Product grew at a 1.5 Operating revenue decreased 15.9 Overoptimism 2008-2010 The SEP growth forecast for 2008 never turned negative. The track record on recessions is perfect.

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Balance Sheet Banking Study Policies 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. Shift to providing advice on business models, not just strategy and operations.

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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. Practice Areas.

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Groups Interviews Culture Case Interview 100

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. “Rather, Yahoo’s existing products didn’t work on mobile.”

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Turnaround Data Operations Company 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.

Energy 28

Energy Productivity Retail Financial 28

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. In our second study, we assessed whether productivity dispersion in the health care sector is similar in magnitude to that of other manufacturing sectors.

Marketing 28

Marketing Research Travel Study 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.

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Metrics Study Cash Flow McKinsey 30

Harvard Business

MARCH 8, 2017

Like the internet, this technology is designed to be decentralized, with “layers,” where each layer is defined by an interoperable open protocol on top of which companies, as well as individuals, can build products and services. Bitcoin was first created as a response to the 2008 financial crisis.

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Media Banking Financial System 71

Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2018

The Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation (CFI) was established in 2008, becoming the first healthcare innovation center to employ a team of in-house designers. Outcomes of successful innovation projects, such as a product, service or research finding, often need varying types and degrees of support to transition to the next phase of development.

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Healthcare Metrics Engineering Financial 34

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.

Company 28

Company Engineering Turnaround System 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).

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Balance Sheet Financial Journal Company 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. Colin Bowman – Product Manager – Yahoo. Their services emphasized analytical consulting.

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Interviews Culture Bain Consulting 150

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. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

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Talent McKinsey Apparel Sales 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

IT was using AI to resolve employees’ tech support problems, automate the work of putting new systems or enhancements into production, and make sure employees used technology from approved vendors. What about the automation of the production line? And it wasn’t just to detect a hacker’s moves in the data center.

Company 42

Company Survey Finance Engineering 42

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2016

What type of office design is best for productivity and engagement? We came to this hypothesis in part due to early research by Gina Venolia, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research , who conducted a 2008 study that examined the special problems faced by remote teammates at Microsoft. 77 hours compared to.85

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Real Estate Travel Meeting Research 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Tobacco production, the country’s main foreign exchange earner, slumped dramatically between 2000 and 2008.) Consumer-facing businesses : Any company that enters the market offering lifestyle and consumer goods products could benefit from demand that has been unmet for years.

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Government Banking System Finance 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 4, 2016

The first commercial AR application appeared in 2008. Phase 2: Trying on products at home. Simulating digital products, so that they interact with movements in the real world in real time (usually through paper printouts), was a popular approach to AR in the early 2010s, especially for watches and jewelry.

Tourism 32

Tourism Fashion Software Development 32

Harvard Business

APRIL 24, 2017

Prior research suggests that compared to other firms, this elite subset of firms attract more and better job applicants , command higher prices for products and services , and sustain higher financial performance. High-reputation firms are recognized for consistently meeting and even exceeding stakeholders’ expectations.

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Comparison Marketing Research Journal 30

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? " This has been labelled the “second phase of global liquidity”, to differentiate it from the pre-crisis phase, which was largely centred on banks expanding their cross-border operations.

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Balance Sheet Financial Banking Policies 74

Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2017

When I launched my first company in 2008 (CarZen, acquired by Liberty Mutual), one of my first hires was a CTO. It meant giving up between one-quarter and one-third of the CTO’s productivity, but this time was being used as an investment in my future talent. Hire to train. Or perhaps they want to jump from engineering to sales.

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How To Development Metrics Talent 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2017

In 2008, after the global economy took a nosedive, the company that Lauren McAdams was working for went belly up. “I told the hiring manager that I had a very firm grasp of those products,” she says. Today he is the senior digital marketing strategist at PureVPN, which operates a self-managed VPN network.

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