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Consultant Ninja: The Financial Crisis is a Wicked Problem.

Consultant Ninja

To digest all those wealth, bankers did their best to devour that money, hence the boom of all derivatives on what should be pretty boring fix income products. All those transactions have hidden the fact that the productivity of US has been steadily falling. Productivity. (6). April 6, 2009 at 9:34 AM. Anthony Jen. Consulting.

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Research: Self-Disruption Can Hurt the Companies That Need It the Most

Harvard Business

electric utilities during 2008-2015—a period in which the decentralized model was in its uncertain, nascent phase. their production capacity, which obviously varied considerably) and the competitive intensity of their markets (which ranged from perfect competition to near monopoly, because of regulatory differences between states).

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The Real Reason Superstar Firms Are Pulling Ahead

Harvard Business

They’re more productive, as the chart below illustrates. He excluded tech industries from the analysis since his aim was to study how IT adoption was helping firms, rather than industries that produce IT-related products.) They’re also more profitable, more innovative, and they pay better.

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How Multinationals Can Adapt to a Political Mood That Doesn’t Care for Them at All

Harvard Business

To reduce costs, they have shifted production to countries with low-paid workers, thereby increasing demand for their labor and increasing their wages. This has spread advanced production techniques and management practices around the world, dramatically improving productivity. It wasn’t for charity, of course.