Martinka Consulting

APRIL 26, 2019

Record number of small business sales in 2018! More businesses sold after being advertised on bizbuysell.com than any other year, and 2017 was 25% higher than 2016. Our first question is: what is “small?” Pretty small. 70% of medium sized companies will change hands (2008). Synergistic product line firm.

Marketing 40

Marketing PricewaterhouseCoopers Cash Flow Banking 40

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

For instance, we examined predatory pricing in the airline industry and illegal product tying by Apple, Microsoft, and AT&T. For our final project, the class was broken into small groups and each group wrote a 40 page paper examining a thesis in an industry of their choosing. This left me with few options.

Consulting 204

Consulting Case Interview Interviews Engineering 204

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 18, 2018

And billionaire Mark Cuban worked until 2 am launching his first business and didn’t take a vacation for seven years. These intense work styles are often celebrated as the only way to get to the top and be a super-productive leader. That was in 2008. “But weren’t sure how.”

Conference 52

Conference Nonprofit Banking Groups 52

Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 7, 2023

A global survey of over 5000 CEOs revealed that greater than 60 percent of organizations anticipate introducing new products or services to fuel their growth. 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).

Culture 52

Culture Financial Leadership Deloitte 52

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

A new paper by economists Jan De Loecker and Jan Eeckhout argues that the problem isn’t confined to finance, or even large international corporations. Economists consider markups to be the difference between what a business pays for the inputs it uses and what it charges for the products it produces. This is quite a claim.

Retail 29

Retail Trends Small Business Industry 29

Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

Royal Dutch Philips is a $20B diversified consumer electronics, healthcare, and lighting products company. A new CEO was quickly able to help his team see they were victims of too much emphasis on global business units. Once one of the most innovative in its segments, the company lost its way in recent years.

Apparel 82

Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82