Martinka Consulting

AUGUST 6, 2018

On June 2, 2018 Jason Zweig’s article in the Wall Street Journal was titled, “ The Fanciful Alphabet Soup Companies Use to Fool You.” This goes back to before the stock market crash of 1929. First, most of the creative Ebitda terms in the public market have nothing on the creativity used when selling businesses.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Competing for scarce labor in a tight market, they will have trouble continuing to shift medical bills onto employees as they have for several decades. To address these challenges, they will have to band together in purchasing coalitions that give them the local market power to force health systems to reform. Tim Robberts/Getty Images.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 12, 2015

Liberalize energy supplies for consumers by 2018. percent in 2018 and beyond. I suspect what we are really talking about is some form of minimum unemployment insurance, with lots of restrictions and controls. per cent in 2018. percent primary surplus in 2018 and beyond, is unquestionably absurd.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2018

In fact, the percentage of millennials with full-time careers is rising at a brisk clip from 45% in 2016 to 66% in 2018, according to the data we collected. In our 2018 EY Growth Barometer, an annual global survey of middle market company leaders, we found some movement away from part-time and gig hiring. 3: Gig is better.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2018

And it’s not just low skilled, manual labor that’s at risk — “knowledge” work like operational analytics and marketing is also being taken over by sophisticated artificial intelligence algorithms. How Technology Is Reshaping Markets. For example, one survey indicated that the use of ad-blockers among U.S.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

It is the second smallest market in Latin America — a sharp difference compared with only a few years ago, when it used to compete with markets such as Argentina, Chile, and Colombia as the third largest market in the region, after Brazil and Mexico. Venezuela represented only 1% of total revenues.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

It’s a weekday and Jeff, the director of technology at Economical Insurance, kisses his daughter and waves goodbye as she enters the doors of her public school. The 2018 Future Workforce Report by Upwork claims 63% of U.S. According to the 2018 State of Remote Work , loneliness is the biggest struggle to working remotely.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 11, 2015

Illinois faces a sea of red ink because shrinking income tax revenue will fail to keep pace with rising pension and health insurance costs, according to outgoing Gov. billion at the close of fiscal 2018. billion at the close of fiscal 2018. Pat Quinn''s latest three-year budget forecast. billion in fiscal 2016, $15.7

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

The possibility of a contentious renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has led to delayed or canceled investments in what has been one of Latin America’s most economically stable markets. Renegotiating NAFTA. So, if a company manufactures products in Mexico to export to Canada and the U.S.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

No matter how poorly an established company is doing — take Macy’s, GE, or the insurance giant AIG as examples — no one there believes in their gut that anything they might do will directly cause the company to go out of business. There’s a belief that the sun will keep rising.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 31, 2018

Automation anxiety is made more acute by a labor market that has tilted against workers over the last 30 years, with increasing income inequality and stagnant real wages. The Economy in 2018. A wage insurance program for all displaced workers will help encourage people to remain attached to the labor force. Insight Center.

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MishTalk

MARCH 2, 2015

It''s destroying the pension industry and in the insurance industry." And in today''s financial markets, we''re, as you mentioned, $2 trillion of euroland paper trades at negative yields, some as much as minus 75 basis points, I think Will Rogers would have to be concerned about both. It destroys business models. dollar and the U.S.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Dozens of companies, ranging from telcos ( Sprint , AT&T ), to tech giants (SAP, IBM), to automakers and insurance companies (MINI, State Farm ) have launched similar experiments. As of June 2018, corporate occupiers make up roughly one-quarter of WeWork’s members and revenues. The latter is crucial.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2016

And our own survey of 795 large companies (average revenue of $22 billion) in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America found average per-company spending on IoT initiatives — $86 million in 2015 — was projected to grow to $103 million by 2018.

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