MishTalk

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Roubini says we are in the "mother of all asset bubbles" but it''s going to get even bigger, not popping until 2016. Link if above video does not play: Roubini: We''re in an asset bubble and it won''t pop until 2016 We’re currently in the mid-late stretch of this boom, “so next year we’ll see economic growth and easy money.

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BCG

JUNE 7, 2016

Article Tuesday, June 07, 2016 The growth of global private wealth hit a speed bump in 2015, especially in the developed markets, with all regions other than Japan experiencing a slowdown relative to last year.

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BCG

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Focus Monday, November 07, 2016. The financial technology (fintech) phenomenon first started to evolve in the capital markets (CM) industry more than 40 years ago. This shortfall is partly due to the highly specialized and regulated nature of capital markets, which may hinder outside investors.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 31, 2018

This is especially important for marketers whose job is to connect consumers and products. In some ways, the use of Big Data in marketing is only continuing and extending a trend that has been going on for many years already: market-oriented marketing. Big Data helps them to do exactly that.

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Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 11, 2024

Leaders striving for a better workplace may suffer consequences In a recent post on LinkedIn from the Business & Management Consultants open group, a contributor posted, “A manager who challenges the boss and stands up for their team, despite risking their own career, is a true leader.” I complied; he didn’t.

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BCG

MAY 17, 2016

Article Tuesday, May 17, 2016. The capital markets ecosystem, as a whole, thrived in 2015. Asset managers, hedge funds, high-frequency traders, exchanges, information service providers, clearing-houses, infrastructure firms, and custodians, for example, all have critical roles. See Exhibit 1.)

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Successful Independent Consulting

JULY 16, 2019

It’s hard to know if your expertise will be in demand, but like most solopreneur marketing, the more specific your niche, the better. I didn’t upload a résumé and it said I’ve only been an independent consultant since 2016, although I’ve worked as one since 2004.) How can I sign up to become a Council Member?

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IMC USA

JANUARY 19, 2017

IMC USA continued to make significant progress in 2016 thanks to the hard work of our members. Member Endorsement Videos: During the first quarter of 2016, we finished the member endorsement videos that we started in the fourth quarter of 2015. The website was built in 2016 with a soft launch anticipated in late first quarter 2017.

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BCG

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Report Monday, December 12, 2016. With interest rates low—even negative, in some markets—and an increasingly heated search for assets, downward margin pressure is likely to remain a fixture. Corporate banking is a tough business. But not everyone is being dragged down. Invest in new digital offerings and business models.

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Melissa Agnes

JANUARY 16, 2017

Think of Wells Fargo , Whole Foods Market , Samsung … and those are just a few of the catastrophic crises we watched unravel in 2016 alone. Each of these trends should be discussed amongst your crisis management team and incorporated into your crisis preparedness program, as appropriate. And 2017 will be no different.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Today we saw another stock market decline and yet another shift further away from rate hikes this year. December 16, 2015 Probability January 27, 2016 Probability As noted in the table at the top, one has to go all the way to March 16, 2016 before the Fed Fund Futures imply a quarter point hike. 16-Dec-15 64.5 27-Jan-16 55.3

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BCG

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Report Wednesday, October 26, 2016. lthough the engineering, construction, and services (ECS) industry continues to lag substantially behind the broader market, a doom-and-gloom outlook is by no means warranted. Japan and China are robust markets for ECS value creation. Companies in developed markets are struggling.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Date : Tuesday, January 5, 2016 Time : 7:00 PM City : Crystal Lake, Illinois Place : Village Squire Restaurant - 4818 Northwest Highway - Crystal Lake, Illinois For those who want to come a bit earlier, Chris and I will be at the bar at 6:30 PM.

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Martinka Consulting

APRIL 26, 2019

More businesses sold after being advertised on bizbuysell.com than any other year, and 2017 was 25% higher than 2016. Second question: is there similar activity with larger companies, small, mid-sized, and lower middle market firms? Barlow research – Two-thirds of lower middle-market business owners are expected to retire.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 18, 2017

In January 2016, IBM announced a collaboration with SBRH, which gave Pepper a cognitive computing system named Watson which allowed her to understand sophisticated semantic context through natural language processing and process a humongous volume of data including “dark”, or unstructured, data from social media, video, images and text.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Steen Jakobsen, Saxo Bank's CIO and chief economist is back with real predictions for 2016, following yesterday's "Outrageous Predictions". My "Real" 2016 Outlook US Dollar will weaken – It will follow the “ normal path ” of weaker US$ post the first hike. 2016 will be a year of two halves: A bad start, and a good finish.

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Harmonious Workplaces

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Pizza parties (with dietary alternatives), happy hours, and office games like ping pong or video games can foster team bonding and employee engagement (Müceldili & Erdil, 2016). The personal feelings workers have for their managers and for the executive leadership of their workplace can impact organizational commitment and performance.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Close of the Paradigm by Steen Jakobsen The irony in this year’s batch of outrageous predictions is that some of them are “outrageous” merely because they run counter to overwhelming market consensus. I wish you a happy holiday and a good trading year in 2016! All of this is embedded in this year’s Outrageous Predictions.

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BCG

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Article Thursday, September 08, 2016. In some emerging markets, more than half of the largest companies are family businesses. Yet, for decades, most of the research on family businesses has focused on benchmarks from developed markets. Emerging markets present a distinctive context for operating a family business.

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Melissa Agnes

APRIL 26, 2016

What is the goal of crisis management? The goal of crisis management is to salvage your organization’s reputation and bottom line when presented with a bad or threatening situation – or so says the majority of people. The situation that Whole Foods Market has most recently found themselves in is a perfect example of this.

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BCG

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Article Wednesday, December 14, 2016. In 2016, The Boston Consulting Group conducted its annual analysis of the total shareholder return (TSR) of nearly 1,620 publicly traded companies in 28 industries.1 See Creating Value Through Active Portfolio Management, the 2016 BCG Value Creators report, October 2016.).

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

The market effectively laughed in her face. Not only does the market not see a hike in October, it does not see one in December either, in spite of the fact that Yellen stated the majority of the FOMC participants still see a hike this year. Fed Fund Futures July 2016-January 2017 I suppose the next hike could be to 0.25-0.50%

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BCG

JULY 28, 2016

Article Thursday, July 28, 2016 The debate in Germany about how to shift more women into leadership positions in the workplace has gone on for years, but progress has been stagnant. Middle management is often the end of the road for women, and most of those with children never return to full-time work at all.

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

"Blue Chip" Optimism The Atlanta Fed initial GDPNow Forecast for first quarter 2016 starts off with an anemic 1.2% The initial GDPNow model forecast for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the first quarter of 2016 is 1.2 We will not know the total effect until July 2016. percent on February 1.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 5, 2016

I expect monthly jobs reports in 2016 will shock to the downside. Unless manufacturing turns here, 2016 looks to be a rough year for jobs, especially vs. expectations. Why 2016 Will Shock to the Downside! Manufacturing is not the only reason to think jobs will sour in 2016. ISM a Leading Indicator of Jobs?

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BCG

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Article Thursday, December 15, 2016 Life insurers are feeling the squeeze. Yet that income stream is weakening, as low-risk investment yields dip toward 0% and central banks continue to drain the bond markets. How do we manage capital consumption and the volatility of our assets? Can we cut costs to boost overall profit?

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Martinka Consulting

APRIL 10, 2017

In mid-2016 the Wall Street Journal published an article titled, “Demand Swells for Chickens That Grow More Slowly.” Smart people, smart business buyers, understand slow and steady is the best if the company can achieve fast growth with better leadership, marketing, and direction. The post Slow, Fast, or Manageable Growth?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 1, 2016

As the newly released 2016 Empathy Index demonstrates, empathy, which is about understanding our emotional impact on others and making change as a result, is more important to a successful business than it has ever been, correlating to growth, productivity, and earnings per employee. billion) in the year to end-March 2016. billion ($1.39

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Blockchain has important implications for marketing and advertising. But according to The CMO Survey , only 8% of firms rate the use of blockchain in marketing as moderately or very important. This combination creates a natural barrier to entry and has likely caused marketers to take a “wait and see” approach.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

What makes marketing creative? Is a creative marketer more artist or entrepreneur? Historically, the term “marketing creative” has been associated with the words and pictures that go into ad campaigns. But marketing, like other corporate functions, has become more complex and rigorous.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 3, 2016

The Wall Street Journal discusses the 2016 forecast in Will Business Spending and Profits Rebound This Year? You can start planning for what you’re going to be investing in 2016 and 2017, and that’s huge. If companies thought tax credits would expire, they would have had a tendency to spend in 2015, not 2016.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 15, 2016

Their forecast came out late this afternoon, but it did beat the market close. Latest forecast — January 15, 2016 The GDPNow model forecast for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the fourth quarter of 2015 is 0.6 The market laughed in their face. percent on January 15, down from 0.8 percent on January 8.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Evolution of Rate Hike Odds I don't think the Fed will hike this year and neither does the market. In fact, the market now thinks the Fed will not hike in March. In fact, going all the way out to July 2016 , the Fed Fund Future sits at 99.645 implying an interest rate of 0.355%. Hike adds for March are now down to 47.6%.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Here is a snip from the Fed's Statement The Committee judges that there has been considerable improvement in labor market conditions this year, and it is reasonably confident that inflation will rise, over the medium term, to its 2 percent objective. Today, the Fed hiked by 1/4 point as widely expected, and signaled. percent to 0.5

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BCG

JULY 25, 2016

Article Monday, July 25, 2016. Asset managers have always tried to make decisions that yield outstand­ing investment performance for their clients. Originally used by only a small subset of asset managers, these analytical approaches are bringing intuitive, cost-effective solutions to the mainstream.

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Tsavo Neal

AUGUST 21, 2020

The best theme on the market for consultants is X Theme by Themeco. X Theme is the perfect theme for creating effective digital marketing materials for consultants. Here’s the resume format I used to earn my first job in tech as a product manager in 20 days — as a History major, nonetheless! EXPERIENCE.

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BCG

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Article Tuesday, October 25, 2016. Ever since BCG introduced the growth share matrix, in the 1960s, executives have understood that portfolio management is a critical component of any strategy for superior value creation.

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