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Consultant Ninja: Finally, two counter-cyclical markets: Management.

Consultant Ninja

The other sector Im long on is turnaround consulting: 10-13-08. 2010-Present: Off the road 2009 Stats: Airline Miles: 24,902 Nights away from home: 73 (of 216: 34% of nights) AMEX Charges: $21,220 2008 Stats: Airline miles: 87,589 Nights away from home: 159 (of 365: 43.6% Who knew he could stimulate the economy so quickly? Newer Post.

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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. The company sold 571,000 cars last year, up from 373,000 in 2010.

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Digital Growth Depends More on Business Models than Technology

Harvard Business

For an example of digitally-enabled business model transformation, consider Domino’s Pizza, which has experienced a massive turnaround since 2010. A social media site that allows its users to visually share their interests with each other (and with advertisers, who sponsor content and pay for user data).

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How Organic Wine Finally Caught On

Harvard Business

Whole Foods Market, which by 2010 accounted for over one half of organic food sales in the United States, did little to promote organic wines. The Turnaround. Yet by the 2010s, organic wine had become popular in fine-dining restaurants in major cosmopolitan cities like Paris and New York.

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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. He developed a three-year plan for his turnaround vision, which was translated into annual and quarterly operating plans, and biquarterly responsibilities for his executive team.

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