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Food Stamp Growth Outpaces Illinois Job Creation 5-4 During Recovery

MishTalk

Job losses from the Great Recession occurred from January 2008 to January 2010, and since then, states have had five-and-a-half years of recovery. After losing 117,000 manufacturing jobs during the recession, Illinois has only regained 17,400 of those factory jobs since January 2010.

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How Volvo Reinvented Itself Through Hiring

Harvard Business

Volvo’s turnaround over the last decade offers a great example. Under new ownership (Volvo was sold to China’s Geely by Ford in 2010), the Swedish automaker decided to transform its product line by becoming a premium player. To get the skills and change agents it needed, Volvo looked outside the automotive industry.

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How Organic Wine Finally Caught On

Harvard Business

Through historical research and many interviews, we found several ways in which early stumbles in the organic wine market created marketing problems that the industry still struggles to overcome. First, the conventional wine industry saw it as a threat. The Turnaround. Early Struggles.

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business

After studying and working with hundreds of companies in free fall, we’ve identified concrete steps that leadership teams can take to engineer successful turnarounds and transformations. By 2010 the company had become the best-performing stock in the S&P 500, worth $30 per share and earning investors a return of 29 times.

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4 Ways CEOs Can Conquer Short-Termism

Harvard Business

Mark Bertolini, CEO of Aetna, began his tenure, in 2010, by lowering targets by over one-third, in a single bold move. ” Bertolini and his team studied the industry and concluded that a reasonable target was no more than 6% EPS. Doug Conant got his senior team aligned around a both/and outlook using positive peer pressure.

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants: is it just me.

The Crazy Lives of Consultants

Friday, January 29, 2010. January 30, 2010 at 12:12 AM. Not solitary do we have the unexcelled prices but our turnaround heyday for your Xrumer posting is wonderful fast. January 30, 2010 at 5:16 AM. January 30, 2010 at 6:33 PM. February 2, 2010 at 5:10 PM. February 3, 2010 at 3:13 AM. is it just me.