MishTalk

JULY 27, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Machinery and machine technology has made farming easier and more efficient for centuries. Sitka Pacific. Recent Posts. Featured Links. GoldMoney: The Best Way to Buy Gold & Silver.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 21, 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 2008 crisis prompted a pause. In the decade before the 2008 financial crisis, trade was driving growth.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 27, 2014

IMF chief Christine Lagarde has been put under formal investigation by French magistrates for alleged negligence in a political fraud affair dating from 2008 when she was finance minister. Based on these principles, we examine a range of options for achieving redistribution efficiently.

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Seth Godin Blog

MARCH 22, 2017

But the same thing is true of the results you got from the direct marketing test you did yesterday. Like the toxic loans that led to the financial crisis of 2008, when lies are mixed in with the expectation for truth, the system grinds to a halt. And the efficacy of a new cancer vaccine or economic policy.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

More stagnation is likely as energy costs surge and key export markets, notably in Russia and China, begin to contract. High taxes and welfare costs, long tolerable in an efficient economy like Germany, have a way of catching up with companies and countries. Europe’s poor economy stems in large part from policy.

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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.

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Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2020

When Andy Frawley took on the roles of Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors in July 2018, the company faced several challenges, including business inefficiencies stemming from a recent merger and inapt product and go-to-market strategies. coaching) and functional (e.g., computer skills) training.

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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. “Stranded assets” are investments that become obsolete due to regulatory, environmental, or market constraints. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

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Consultant Ninja

JULY 31, 2009

lawsuits, FDA policy, patent protections (longer or shorter), drug re purposing, marketing, etc.) The pharma piece (your #2) is a very difficult, but interesting business problem--How to reign in costs without dampening investment in important R&D, or without causing leading firms to completely exit in favor of friendlier markets?

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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. We found that 24% of our sample firms reduced their workforce by 3% or more in 2010, including Ford, Petmed Express, and Regal Cinemas.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

However, firms can efficiently increase margin growth without much revenue growth by managing to squeeze out their fixed costs to service the same level of output. So this measure may mislabel efficient companies as myopic. In essence, the measure labels firms with large share repurchase programs as myopic.

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Consultant Ninja

JULY 27, 2009

I fail to see the logic that the government will be more efficient at building operational structures than the private sector. No need to worry about supply side; a free market consisting of only young, healthy, rich people basically runs itself. Question: In the Obama plan, which one of these three cost drivers is getting reversed?

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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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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2016

They invest significant resources in research, marketing, and distribution. Our research suggests that, on average, more centralized decision making structures are more likely to pull poorly performing products from the market. Firms might leave products on the market well past their prime. Killing products isn’t easy.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 6, 2015

One example is when the New York School’s system hired them to boost the efficiency of their school bus network, which they did, saving the city $12M. As the 2008 banking crisis ensued, Alvarez & Marsal played a pivotal role in liquidating Lehman Brother’s assets while also servicing many other high-profile clients.

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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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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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Consultant Ninja

OCTOBER 3, 2008

Friday, October 3, 2008. Market Plays: In consulting and banking you find very smart, hardworking people who believe completely in capitalism, the profit motive, and proper incentives will lead to the economic dominance of whichever species best captures their motivating principles. November 29, 2008 at 10:06 PM. billion (U.S.)

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MishTalk

JULY 14, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Michael Pettis at China Financial Markets tackles the above questions via email on " The Urbanization Fallacy ". Sitka Pacific. Recent Posts. Featured Links. Automatic Earth. Big Picture.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 6, 2019

The idea that technology can be configured to drastically improve the delivery and usability of finance began taking off following the financial crisis of 2008, when consumer distrust for traditional banks combined with the increasing popularity and functionality of smartphone apps.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 7, 2023

Company cultures centered on efficiency thinking have flooded the marketplace with low-cost, widely available products and resulted in tremendous waste and social issues (Brown, 2009). As companies continue to expand into new markets, the makeup of the workforce in our companies and communities served is becoming more diverse.

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2017

Cross-border flows of digitally transmitted data have grown manifold, accounting for more than one-third of the increase in global GDP in 2014, even as the free-flow of goods and services and cross-border capital have ebbed in the aftermath of the 2008 recession. Digital players wield outsize market power. Digital markets are uneven.

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freshminds

MAY 24, 2016

86% agree it makes life more affordable, 83% agree it makes life more convenient and efficient, 76% agree it's better for the environment, 78% agree it builds a stronger community, 63% agree it is more fun than engaging with traditional companies, 89% agree it is based on trust between providers and users.

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Harvard Business

MAY 11, 2016

In 2008 Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson wrote about their research on U.S. Experts have more or less narrowed it down to two theories: Firms have been exposed to increasingly intense winner-take-all competition, or leading firms have cemented their market power and are earning fat profits without much threat of competition.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

This could give businesses far greater flexibility to find markets and price risk, by capturing the value that they have invested in the process at any point along the chain. What we end up with are dynamic demand chains in place of rigid supply chains, resulting in more efficient resource use for all. Both imperatives pose challenges.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Prior to this, only 2007-2008 saw this many annual deals, and before that the single-year peak of 2000 saw “just” over 40,000 deals. The efficiencies of online business have continued to fell the old giants of retailing. Who owns whose assets. The global remix is not new at all.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 23, 2018

First, the frontier technologies that NASA needed were not already available on the market; they had to be developed from scratch by specialized contractors. In 2008 NASA awarded contracts to Space X and Orbital Sciences to transport cargo to the ISS. It invested more in external communication.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Bernanke again paraded his lack of insight of the Fed’s leading role in causing the 2008 crisis. I believe the Fed and BoE have learned practically nothing from their previous mistakes and we are heading down exactly the same road to catastrophe as the financial markets creak and groan under the strain of QE-inspired, excess valuations.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2018

In an effort to maintain optimal and efficient assortments, retailers often eliminate low-selling products. In 2008 Walmart famously cut 15% of its SKUs, but consumer backlash and reduced sales soon followed, prompting the company to reverse the decision. However, this tactic can backfire.

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1 to 1

MAY 3, 2013

Marketing Research Articles. Mobile Marketing. Marketing by Permission! Marketing Blog. Sales & Marketing Effectiveness. I look to 1to1 Media and its partners as a trusted source of information on integrated marketing trends. Back towww.1to1media.com. 1to1media.com. CRM Best Practices. Weekly Digest.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Does your organization have the “market power” to implement the scenario? Identify whether your organization has the ability, based on market size and/or influence, to get other parties to participate in a consortium. What transactional data will you have to provide contextual reputational data?

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Women in Consulting

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Best practices, models, guidelines are freely available, published by experts as part of their content marketing strategies, or easily accessible online via Udacity, Udemy, LinkedIn Learning or Stanford. Here are three reasons why: Democratization of information. Today, anyone can learn just about anything about everything.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2017

It began soon after the global financial crisis of 2008. According to World Bank data , merchandise trade grew from 16% of global GDP in 1990 to 26% by 2008. They need to double down on localizing their operations in every major market. This does not mean that GE needs to reinvent its digital strategy for every market.

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Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2017

Shareholders have benefited greatly from bigger product markets, lower production costs, and the judicious use of head office domiciles to reduce tax bills. Since 1990, the market capitalization of multinational corporations has grown at more than three times the average rate of listed companies around the world, our research shows.

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MishTalk

JUNE 23, 2014

For too many years, we failed to rein in the excesses building up in the nation’s financial markets. When the credit bubble burst in 2008, the damage was devastating. The solution can be a fundamentally conservative one that will empower the marketplace to find the most efficient response. He calls it The Coming Climate Crash.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

On the other side of the debate, H-1B supporters argue that the program brings needed skills into the labor market, which helps firms remain innovative, productive, and competitive. In 2008 Bill Gates testified before Congress to advocate for more H-1B visas to help compensate for “a deficit of Americans with computer science degrees.”

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 5, 2017

Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. But in the last two contests in which Hillary Clinton has participated, the 2008 primary and the 2016 election, she won on most of these metrics — and lost the elections. Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%.

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