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Insights from Australia's Leading Social Sector Consulting Firm

Tom Spencer

by Tom Spencer on September 9, 2012 · 0 comments. Launched on 16 August 2012, the SVA Consulting Quarterly is a new online publication dedicated to sharing new ideas, tools and methodologies with leaders, managers, and thinkers in the Australian non-profit sector. Definitions. Helpful Links. in Management Consulting.

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Stock Buybacks Peaked With Stock Market in 2007: History About to Repeat?

MishTalk

Finally, multiple expansion has been a big driver of equity returns in 2012 and 2013, accounting for about 75% of returns. In 2012 nearly 70% of share price increases were due to willingness of investors to accept higher PEs. Margins we have discussed in previous reports.

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Gallup Says Seasonally-Adjusted Unemployment Climbs to 8.6%; Who to Believe (Gallup or the BLS)?

MishTalk

in August 2012. August marks the seventh month this year that the P2P rate failed to improve over the same month in 2012. in August 2012. in August, essentially unchanged from July (17.3%), but up slightly over August 2012 (17.1%). Payroll to Population employment rate (P2P), as measured by Gallup, dropped to 43.7%

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Retirement for Chicago Park District Employees, With Full Benefits: Age 58; Reflections on Chicago's Second Triple-Notch Bond Downgrade in Six Months

MishTalk

Based on the new Moody’s methodology, which uses more conservative assumptions, Chicago’s 2012 pension shortfall jumps nearly 90 percent, to $36 billion from $19 billion. Under new Moody’s methodology, the underfunding for the state’s five state-run funds is set to approach $200 billion.

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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business

To do so, we worked with AT Kearney, who led the piloting of our methodology; retailers McDonald’s and Carrefour; slaughterhouses JBS (the largest beef producer in Brazil) and Mafrig; Brazilian cattle ranchers, Antea Group, and partner NGOs The Nature Conservancy, Instituto Centro de Vida (ICV) and Imaflora.

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Research: A Strong Privacy Policy Can Save Your Company Millions

Harvard Business

For an example of competitor harm due to these spillover effects, consider the July 2012 Nvidia data breach, which affected 400,000 user accounts. Company Ranking Methodology We created transparency and control variables with procedures that employed a mix of automation and manual coding of companies’ actual privacy policies.

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Why GE, Boeing, Lowe’s, and Walmart Are Directly Buying Health Care for Employees

Harvard Business

Geisinger Health System began partnering with Walmart around cardiac surgery in 2012, and joined ECEN for spinal surgery in 2015. For centers remaining in consideration after these initial steps, PBGH and HDP perform an in-depth site visit utilizing a patient tracer methodology. In late 2012 Geisinger initiated ProvenCare Lumbar Spine.