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"Bubblicious" High End Flipping Up 350%, Overall Flipping Down 13%

MishTalk

Flipping houses went out of fashion around 2008, along with flip phones and sub-prime mortgages. For the market as a whole, flips of single family homes fell 13% in the third quarter, according to new research from RealtyTrac, with investors earning a gross profit of nearly $55,000 on each property.

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business

” (2008), it seems to me, is that it serves as an assessment tool that allows managers and executives to benchmark their organizations against other units and companies. But the main contribution of “Is Yours a Learning Organization?” Garvin was famous at HBS for being a good mentor and a great listener.

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Case Study: Can You Fix a Toxic Culture Without Firing People?

Harvard Business

FB Holdings had made it through the financial crisis of 2008 without losing money—but the climate control systems divisions, a Tier 1 automotive supplier, had not fared as well. Having executed a successful turnaround as COO of her construction company, Joss had been especially helpful to Noelle during her time at Franklin.

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List of strategy consulting firms in Hong Kong

Tom Spencer

Booz, Booz & Co broke away from Booz Allen Hamilton in 2008. Its expertise includes branding, corporate finance, corporate responsibility, financial & risk effectiveness, IT, manufacturing, marketing, organization, real estate management, research and development, restructuring, sales, strategy, and supply chain management.