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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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

I hear various reports of what the hryvnia actually trades for on the black market in Ukraine. Today, I have an actual black market link to share thanks to reader Oleg from Crimea. None of that applies at the black market of course. Of course, going straight to the black market is risky in many respects.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2016

In July 2015, Novartis launched its new heart failure drug, Entresto, which Forbes in 2014 predicted would be a blockbuster — with expected sales of $10 billion annually — as the potential market in the US exceeds 5 million people with a heart failure condition. billion sales in India. billion sales in India.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Mr Kuroda, a former finance ministry official, reiterated his support for tighter fiscal policy to rein in Japan’s huge government debt, which is approaching two and a half years’ economic output. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 2, 2014

The next election for prime minister is not scheduled until June 2016, but a February 2015 presidential election (a largely ceremonial position) threatens to upset the cart. It wants to reverse minimum wage cuts, freeze state layoffs and halt state asset sales. The vaguer the better for black market dealings.

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MishTalk

JULY 12, 2015

Amend or compensate for "roll-back" legislation adopted during 2015 that is counter to the framework of the February 20, 2015 Eurogroup statement. Additional Financing Needs The Eurogroup takes note of the possible financing needs of between €82 billion and €86 billion.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 22, 2014

discount retailer by sales with about 361,000 total employees last fiscal year, joined the list. You see a lot of retailers making adjustments in contemplation of the full effect of the employer mandate penalties in 2015,” Neil Trautwein, a lobbyist with the National Retail Federation, a trade group in Washington, said in a phone interview.

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Healthcare Insurance Insurance Retail 74

Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2017

Due to the fast growth of the SaaS market and the high valuations of SaaS startups, a move toward SaaS seems very compelling for traditional software vendors. For example, Adobe’s finance team estimated that the cost of running both models side by side would cost them twice as much as simply offering one of the models.

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MishTalk

APRIL 9, 2015

Foreign-exchange markets were thrown into turmoil. Mexico’s interest in selling the bond at 100 years was partly to extend the maturity of its debt stock, but also to expand its presence in the euro bond market, said Alejandro Díaz de León, head of public credit at the Mexican Finance Ministry. “By and aggressively bought bonds.

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Finance Banking Government Marketing 28

MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Slowly but surely, Illinois government is beginning to drown in red ink, State Comptroller Leslie Munger said today, as the cost of the continuing Springfield budget war steadily worsens the already bad condition of state finances. At the end of FY 2015, the remaining principal on these bonds will be $12.7 Unpaid bills.

Finance 28

Finance Government Sales Study 28

Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2017

” Voluntarily led response to 2015 flooding of School of Design building. Meghna has been COO of a small market research company since she earned her MBA several years ago. into multiple global markets. Establish functions from scratch — Finance, Accounting, Marketing, Sales, and HR.

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Transportation Real Estate Financial Operations 47

Management Consulted

JULY 2, 2017

The Boston office was the originator of concepts such as the experience curve, the portfolio concept, time-based competition, and segment-of-one marketing. And with Bain’s globally-recognized social culture, Vault ranked Bain as the Best Place to Work in 2015. BCG opened shop in 1963 with founder Bruce Henderson at the helm.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Of course, there is also persistent overoptimism about earnings growth and stock market expectations. Sales of Class 8 heavy trucks are on pace for one of the best years in history - around 260,000 units in North America. economy would avoid a recession despite the ongoing housing market turmoil. Here are the readings for 2015.

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Balance Sheet Banking Study Policies 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Given that those companies were all venture-financed and emerged from Silicon Valley, you might assume that the key ingredients that have ensured their success were cutting-edge technologies, digital platforms, and customer bases that were chiefly made up of digital natives.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Estimates of the annual medical costs of obesity range from $147–$210 billion , approximately 40% of which is financed by Medicare and Medicaid. To address this question, we analyzed six years of weekly milk sales data from over 1,700 supermarkets across the U.S. We studied milk consumption for two reasons.

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Policies Sales Education Study 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. In another company, commercial discounts was essentially a black box for the finance chief and CEO.

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Company Benchmarking Travel Policies 32

MishTalk

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Average per-mile rates on the spot market fell again for all three major truckload segments in November, according to data from loadboard Truckstop.com. This is the fourth straight month that rates dipped in all three segments, continuing a now year-long downward trend spurred by both a major drop in diesel prices and market conditions.

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Sales Report Trends Real Estate 28

MishTalk

AUGUST 5, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Mish and Eric King discuss Gold, the Stock Market, the US Dollar, Sideline Cash, China, and US real estate. Automatic Earth.

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Real Estate Case Interview Financial Advertising 68

MishTalk

JUNE 29, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Should you as a bond investor jump overboard and risk the cold money market Atlantic Ocean at near zero degrees? Daily Bell.

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Analysis Trends Real Estate Financial 70

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

It teaches young people the dress, demeanor, and collaboration skills expected in a professional setting as well as the technical skills for careers in IT, operations, finance, sales and marketing, or customer service. A 2015 study that we conducted with the U.S. Defining Strategic Roles.

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Talent Education Engineering Software 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 6, 2018

If you want to affect customer engagement, for example, you will need to develop or adapt multiple AI applications and tasks that relate to different aspects of marketing, sales, and service relationships. Tech companies like Alphabet have even more learning; that company had 2700 AI projects underway as far back as 2015.

Company 28

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Harvard Business

MAY 1, 2018

We have written extensively on shareholder activism , and one of us coauthored a study in the Journal of Finance showing that, on average, activists produce value for targeted companies. By contrast, World Bank data suggests that the average holding period in 2015 for public company shares globally was just over seven months.

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Real Estate Construction Meeting Company 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week. Sales & Marketing Adapted from.

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Energy Airlines Culture Retail 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Over the past 18 months, Sergey’s experience has been echoed in offices in Ukraine, South Africa, Turkey, Brazil, and many other emerging markets that have faced substantial currency depreciation due to the drop in commodity prices and the flow of capital to the U.S. Normally, MNCs raise prices in the emerging market, (e.g.,

Marketing 28

Marketing Company Agile Sales 28

MishTalk

MAY 15, 2015

The weakness, ominously, is the result of falling assessments of the jobs market, both the current jobs market and expectations for the future jobs market. Overall, at this time the data are still consistent with a 3% growth rate in real personal consumption expenditures during 2015. but instead the index plunged 7.6%.

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Retail Sales Survey Report 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 6, 2016

companies don’t pay taxes on debt-financed investments, which amounts to a subsidy. 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. 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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Methodologies Policies Government Data 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 15, 2016

And yet there’s room for even more industry growth, and more savings for American consumers: a recent study my team conducted found that antiquated regulations are costing the growing solar market an additional $70 billion. To understand why, we have to start by looking at the market for solar. solar in 2015.

Energy 28

Energy System Industry Retail 28

Harvard Business

MAY 9, 2016

But by the turn of the millennium, the German automaker needed a new product for the mass market to jumpstart sales, and decided to make a vehicle for the burgeoning SUV segment. When the Cayenne came to market in 2003, it was an instant hit. By 2015, it generated about half of Porsche’s total profit. .”

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Productivity Development Sports Engineering 28

Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Though not as aggressive, creative or flamboyant as MBB or perhaps even its Big 4 competitors, KPMG is a huge force in the consulting market and not one to be taken lightly. Butler, the new CEO of the US arm, indicated he would strengthen its consultancy services, a market he saw as filled with potential, and offer new services.

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Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

APRIL 21, 2016

Crowdfunding has been growing explosively, with over $2 billion raised via equity and reward crowdfunding in the United States in 2015 alone. In connecting creators and entrepreneurs directly with customers and funders, it transforms the opaque and oligarchical market for early-stage fundraising into a more democratic, open one.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 17, 2016

Every major stock index in the Middle East, with the exception of Tehran’s, plunged on Sunday as the prospect of Iran adding to an oil supply glut pummeled markets already reeling from falling crude prices and a global sell-off in equities. But a senior oil official told the Financial Times that there had been no rise in sales yet.

Marketing 28

Marketing Energy Financial Government 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 4, 2017

This regulation came as a result of concerns that the exploitation and trade of conflict minerals by armed groups was helping to finance conflict in the DRC region and contributing to its emergency humanitarian crisis. stock markets. Filing companies were primarily based in the U.S. but they included foreign firms listed on U.S.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 1, 2014

While I am optimistic about our Commander-in-Chief’s strategy to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, I voted against the Continuing Appropriations Resolution 2015 that would grant the President the authority to provide funds to train and arm Syrian rebels against the enemy.

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Government Policies Healthcare Course 77

Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2017

greenhouse gas emissions peaked in 2007, and by 2015 had declined by 10%. emissions from electricity generators fell 20% from 2007 to 2015, while emissions from other sectors fell more modestly. emissions from electricity generators fell 20% from 2007 to 2015, while emissions from other sectors fell more modestly.

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Energy Transportation Government Policies 28