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The Next Supply-Chain Challenge Isn’t a Shortage — It’s Inventory Glut

Harvard Business

In 2009, the financial crash left manufacturers with excess inventory when consumer buying power suddenly dropped. And now, the high-tech industry is feeling the weight of a volatile market that has led to excess component inventory. Electronics littered shelves in 2001 after the dot-com bubble burst.

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Why Companies Can’t Turn Customer Insights into Growth

BCG

On the left side, record each mention of an internal topic, such as financial or operational performance, plans, metrics, organization, employees, or culture. Consumer-facing companies in developed economies have experienced little or no growth since the global recession of 2008 and 2009.

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Job Hub: Uber Jobs and Culture

Management Consulted

Uber is a San Francisco-based start-up that has been turning heads since its launch in 2009, “bringing people and their cities closer.” Uber was founded in 2009 by Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp, and the accompanying Uber app was launched the next year in June. How would you introduce Uber in a new market? )

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Five Housing Headwinds; Mortgage Originations Lowest Since 2010; Refinancible Loan Percentage Collapses; Payment Shock

MishTalk

A "recovery" since 2009 is pretty long in the tooth, historically speaking. Home equity extraction is likely to decline as is the stock market. Those are my opinions, but they are backed up by valuation metrics and extreme sentiment including a bubble belief the Fed can do no wrong. This may seem circular, and it is.

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The Challenge of Activation

Kates Kesler

The gravitational pull to greater complexity, and all the challenges that come with it, is powered by the need for new sources of growth in diverse geographic markets across multi-product divisions with increasingly demanding customers and consumers with lots of technology at their fingertips. Galbraith, 2009).

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Good News: Investors Cut Gold Holdings to Six-Year Low; Good Timin'

MishTalk

Investors cut holdings in bullion-backed exchange-traded products to the lowest since 2009 as surging stock markets from the U.S. metric tons, or 0.3 stock markets and China’s stock market as well,” Victor Thianpiriya, an analyst at Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. interest rates boosted the dollar.

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Greece Needs to Be Honest About the Numbers

Harvard Business

Given his former position, you would imagine that Georgiou’s crime would involve falsifying national economic data in order to cover up tax shenanigans or to fool the markets into thinking that the Greek economy was healthier than it was. You would be wrong.