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Consulting or Banking

Tom Spencer

This post provides you with a high level comparison of management consulting and investment banking. Within an investment bank, the work is split into many roles including investment banking, sales and trading, equity research, risk management, operations, and technology. Nature of the job.

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Webinars: Your Best Promotional Tool

The Fearless Marketer

In December 2008 I gave a presentation to the ICF (International Coaches Federation) conference in Tampa Florida. Sales letters, online content, social media, emails, videos, and every other marketing method pales in comparison to the results I’ve gotten with live presentations. I’ve proven it in my business time and time again.

Tools 62
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Workforce, Population, Jobs by Age-Group

MishTalk

Those in sales and marketing you should focus on the 55+ age group. As usual, all data not adjusted for seasonality, just direct comparisons of actual data year on year. The charts show something I have repeatedly said since 2008: "kids will be competing with their parents and grandparents for jobs that do not pay a living wage.".

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Digital Growth Depends More on Business Models than Technology

Harvard Business

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.

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Municipal Bonds an "Outrageous Bargain"? Compared to What?

MishTalk

Kotok bases his arguments on a comparison on General Obligation Yields to US Treasuries. Almost forty years later and having supervised the municipal trading/sales and banking areas at four different investment banks I still am on the watch for the green bugs in the milo. December 2008 (85). November 2008 (78).

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Credit Crunch Underway: Can Recession Be Far Behind?

MishTalk

The category of sales slid to 57.9 It is suddenly very hard to get and this looks like the situation that existed at the start of the recession in 2008 [2007 actually]. The overall economy didn’t look all that bad in late 2008, except that there was a dearth of credit and that soon led to business failures and struggles.

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Prestigious Firms Make Riskier Acquisitions Than Other Firms

Harvard Business

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 the same time, Microsoft made numerous acquisitions into a variety of new businesses, with varying degrees of success.