MishTalk

DECEMBER 26, 2013

China''s Move to Market-Set Rates Let''s step back to December 8 and look at China Relaxes Grip on Interest Rates China is relaxing its grip on interest rates with the launch of a financial instrument that allows banks to trade deposits with each other at market-determined prices. China’s credit boom is still in full swing.

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Balance Sheet Marketing Banking Financial 67

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2018

By the time of the Paris climate meeting in 2015, which resulted in the more robust global agreement now supported by every country in the world except the United States, it was clear that we needed to consider a more ambitious target, 1.5°C Set science-based carbon reduction targets for operations. °C (3.8°F)

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Energy Efficiency Government Transportation 44

Harvard Business

MAY 28, 2018

With a $25,000 personal investment and a small office in her home, she began aggregating sales leads and aggressively acquiring customers through very traditional marketing means — like yellow page advertisements. Data-Driven Marketing. It was 2001, and online advertising was at its nascent stage. The situation was untenable.

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Retail Advertising Media Data 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market. The soaring U.S.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

For one thing, in an era when trust in traditional sources has eroded — in government, media, and in companies and the marketing they employ — word-of-mouth from trusted peers wields greater clout than ever. It is highly efficient at capturing, storing, and releasing energy. That’s no longer true.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

As the electric power industry shifts from a model where individual local utilities have a monopoly on electricity provision in a region to a much more dynamic market, these prosumers will be able to make and sell a variety of obscure new products and services like frequency regulation. B operated the same way as A, with no special control.

Energy 28

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Harvard Business

APRIL 17, 2017

Earlier this year, the European Union announced that its climate and renewable energy targets—a 20% cut in greenhouse gas emissions, 20% of EU energy from renewable sources, and a 20% improvement in energy efficiency—are actually on track to realization by the year 2020. Thus markets entering “Energiewende 3.0”

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Energy Industry Government Operations 36

Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2017

This was Sasha’s summary: Department Administrator – Efficiency Expert – Staff Manager - Crisis Handler. ” Voluntarily led response to 2015 flooding of School of Design building. Initiated contact with Director, staff, students, and faculty to minimize disruption of department’s operations.

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Transportation Real Estate Financial Operations 47

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 12, 2018

By 2017 it was operating in over 190 countries, and today close to 73 million of its some 130 million subscribers are outside the U.S. before 2010, and in only 50 countries by 2015. It also must face a diverse set of national regulatory restrictions, such as those that limit what content can be made available in local markets.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 12, 2018

It operates in over 190 countries, and close to 73 million of its some 130 million subscribers are outside the U.S. before 2010, and in only 50 countries by 2015. It also must face a diverse set of national regulatory restrictions, such as those that limit what content can be made available in local markets.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Compensation and benefits are on par to the market, but not adjusted for NYC living (so for take-home pay you might be better off in Atlanta or Dallas as a young McKinseyite, unless the magnetic draw to the Big Apple is just too much). Bain, one of the world’s most prestigious consulting firms, was founded in 1973.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. “Stranded assets” are investments that become obsolete due to regulatory, environmental, or market constraints.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

One response to today’s climate crisis has been a belief that markets and corporate innovation will provide the solution. Our research involved a detailed cross-case analysis of five major corporations operating in Australia over 10 years, from 2005 to 2015. Wallace Garrison/Getty Images.

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Energy Case Interview Insurance Insurance 28

MishTalk

JUNE 8, 2015

Here are 44 items from the Leadersʼ Declaration Communique for the G7 Summit June 7-8 2015 wish list. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. G7 Communiques come and go. It's all much ado about nothing because nothing is ever done.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2016

In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. The latest nuclear reactor designs, promising higher safety, longer operating life, and lower operating costs, cost up to $25 billion after factoring in the huge budget overruns. Model 1: Virtual operator.

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Operations Examples Insurance Insurance 28

Harvard Business

MAY 27, 2016

Instead of getting into a price war or squabbling over a shrinking market, both disruptors and incumbents find new ways to create value. This benefits customers – both the high-end customers being chased by incumbents, and the low-end or middle-market consumers being served by disruptors — and the industry at large.

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Airlines Travel Industry Efficiency 35

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

On December 7, Portland, Oregon, passed a law that will impose a surcharge on the local business taxes paid by corporations that operate in the city when the CEO’s compensation is 100 times or more the median earnings of the company’s employees. public corporations must file with the U.S. million (57% from stock-based pay).

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Exercises Report Pharmaceuticals Financial 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 30, 2016

ZBB has been around for decades, but is currently enjoying a revival driven by powerful investors like 3G Capital Partners, the force behind the 2015 merger of Kraft Foods and H.J. Such high-profile exposure has prompted more companies to view ZBB as a fresh “wonder diet” for achieving radical corporate leanness.

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Company Benchmarking Travel Policies 32

Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

But that is about to change, as big data and the ability to crunch it will deliver actionable insights that will increase health care’s reach, efficiency, accuracy, and value. Generate high-quality imaging, laboratory, and operational data. Four Steps for Digitalizing Healthcare.

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Healthcare Data Deloitte Information Technology 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

Organizations can now engage with customers and employees like never before, and the virtual environment holds the potential to drive operational efficiencies, save time and money, and open the exploration of new commercial avenues. This age is ripe with opportunity. But for traditional firms, they’re a whole new world.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 6, 2015

One example is when the New York School’s system hired them to boost the efficiency of their school bus network, which they did, saving the city $12M. This added to the firm’s already glowing reputation as they continued to diversify their services and enter new markets. Similar skills, but different applications of the skills.

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Interviews Culture Turnaround Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2018

corporations from 1985 to 2015. ” The thinking on diversification later changed, turning into skepticism in the 1970s and outright criticism in the 1980s. firms, and put the brakes on diversification. To test our argument, we collected data on 2,031 CEOs who ran 640 large U.S.

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Research Education Pharmaceuticals Finance 44

Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2016

percent between the first quarter of 2015 and the first quarter of 2016. percent of retail sales shifted from offline to online between the beginning of 2015 and 2016. Many firms operating brick and mortar stores are in trouble. Brick and mortar stores seem to be going the way of the yellow pages. Looking only at that 15.2

Retail 28

Retail Sales Real Estate Data 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

billion debit and credit card transactions, its research revealed a dramatic slowdown in the growth of everyday consumer spending from 2014 to 2015. Mapping this group to its customer base, the bank can make targeted offers to customers who could be in the home or auto market in the next 30 to 90 days. When JPMorgan Chase & Co.

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Banking Data Financial Media 33

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2017

And because the traditional supermarket industry is highly concentrated (for example, in the UK, the top seven food retailers account for 87% of the grocery market), retailers have considerable market power to make change. Another practice that contributes to food waste is product labeling.

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Retail Software Productivity Examples 28

MishTalk

MARCH 14, 2015

Tucson''s $196 million Sun Link Streetcar Project, recently named the Public Works Project of the Year by the American Public Works Association, will operate on a 3.9-mile which announced last month that it had selected a vendor to operate and maintain its planned two-mile downtown streetcar line. will open its $135 million, 2.4-mile

Transportation 28

Transportation Operations Wireless Construction 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 5, 2018

The chief marketing officers at consumer products companies, the heads of design at luxury apparel companies, and the heads of logistics at large retailers are cases in point. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

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Talent McKinsey Apparel Sales 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. Managed by Q, a cleaning and office services company in New York City, decided to pay employees higher wages than the prevailing market rate. And wages are stagnant.

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freshminds

MARCH 22, 2016

The Liverpool based company which operates Very.co.uk, VeryExclusive.co.uk The business has been in operation since 1979 as a catalogue order and delivery service and did not open it's first store until 2005. However, in the last five years a new store has opened every week!

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Retail Trends Sales Productivity 41

Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2017

HDP is a third-party administrator with expertise in the development and management of travel surgery programs, providing strategic and operational management of this program. Geisinger Health System began partnering with Walmart around cardiac surgery in 2012, and joined ECEN for spinal surgery in 2015.

Healthcare 28

Healthcare System Insurance Insurance 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 17, 2016

They need density—what’s known as a “thick market” in trading financial assets—more than just scale. It provided an organizing framework for collecting empirical evidence on how successful platforms operated and why some matchmaker pioneers succeeded and most didn’t. percent in June 2015, to 0.6

Retail 28

Retail Financial Comparison Video 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In a study of nearly 250 manufacturers over a 10-year period (2005–2015), we found that 78% of firms had improved their ability to fill their total actual market demand but had lost control over costs. All kinds of companies had failed at operational flexibility. Hardly a desirable position.

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Automotive Operations Efficiency Tools 28

Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2016

In fact, IoT is at the peak of Gartner’s 2015 hype cycle, which suggests the next phase will be disillusionment, and it will be years before we see real productivity gains. We believe data-driven manufacturing is indeed the next wave that will drive efficient and responsive production systems. Operations in a Connected World.

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Data Engineering System Efficiency 35

Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2017

Thus a trust and efficiency engine like blockchain technology has the potential to drive radical change in the insurance industry while improving transparency and outcomes across the entire value chain. In 2015 these top three players generated 48% of the revenues among the top 50 brokers in the U.S.

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Insurance Insurance Industry Balance Sheet 39

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 6, 2016

After-tax profits are at historically high levels; they were more than 50% higher as a share of GDP in the years 2010-2015 than they were over the prior 20 years. It is not efficient or equitable, and it does not raise as much revenue as it should. capital markets, and it increases the credit-worthiness of U.S. Further, U.S.

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System Finance Efficiency Government 28

Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2017

We introduced the Digital Evolution Index in HBR in 2015 to trace the emergence of a “digital planet,” how physical interactions — in communications, social and political exchange, commerce, media and entertainment — are being displaced by digitally mediated ones. Digital players wield outsize market power.

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