MishTalk

APRIL 1, 2015

The following guest post by Culpepper first appeared on Tumblr as How Chicago has used financial engineering to paper over its massive budget gap. How Chicago Used Financial Engineering to Paper Over its Massive Budget Gap Chicago made headlines at the end of February after Moody’s downgraded the city’s general obligation bond rating to Baa2.

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

Search Engine Traffic Search engine traffic (if someone found by blog via a search rather than a bookmark) looks like this. A look at Mozilla''s balance sheet raises questions about its long-term prospects, especially as it tries to move aggressively into the mobile sector with its own Firefox OS.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Paradoxically, “data” appear everywhere but on the balance sheet and income statement. Here, I include both basic storage, processing, and communications technologies, as well as the more sophisticated architectures, analysis tools, and cognitive technologies that are the engines of monetization.

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Harvard Business

JULY 15, 2016

After all, the first prototype of a digital camera was created in 1975 by Steve Sasson, an engineer working for … Kodak. Sasson himself told The New York Times that management’s response to his digital camera was “that’s cute – but don’t tell anyone about it.”

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

economy based on relationships that are indistinguishable from someone sneezing on a sheet of graph paper. Those who managed to get to that point were in for a nice down to earth set of comments and graphs that followed. An activist Federal Reserve is an engine of disaster and little more. Notice something.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 16, 2017

Rather than managing that complexity by delegating and decentralizing, the CEO became even more controlling. Another CEO used prodigious management skills to successfully consolidate, grow, and dramatically increase the efficiency of a vertically integrated industrial company. Shortcomings in Self-Governance.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 12, 2016

Most of these companies are private and don’t publish their balance sheets. But a new analysis from the German Savings Banks Association shows that, in the last fiscal year, its midsize company clients managed, on average, profit margins of 7.3%. Mittelstand managers give their workers a great deal of their time.

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Markovitz Consulting

MAY 19, 2021

This philosophy emphasizes respect for employees and is central to their management. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering. Yes—an elementary school for budding engineers, pre-K through grade 5 (10 years old). Barry-Wehmiller, a $2B manufacturer of capital equipment, is committed to what it calls “ Truly Human Leadership.”

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2017

Retailers like Walmart and Macy’s manage a supply chain, buying and reselling their own inventory. Let’s see what happens when we connect them rather than manage them — that is, focus on the links rather than the nodes. We normally think of people as something to be managed. Human capital. Intellectual capital.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2017

In 1980, Jim Baron, now a professor at the Yale School of Management, and William Bielby, now a professor at the University of Illinois, published a seminal article on firms and inequality. Firms varied in the extent to which frontline operators were responsible for programming these machines, versus engineers maintaining control.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 26, 2014

And yet most analysts have interpreted the former as implying that policymakers in China were especially capable, and so they assumed that the same high-quality economic management would ensure that the subsequent slowdown would be much less than expected. So far President Xi has followed the script for a successful transition fairly closely.

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MishTalk

JUNE 28, 2013

That forecast is significantly worse than the one reported by independent auditor Integrated Financial Engineering Inc., While these reforms may improve FHAs balance sheet over the long term, they would also reduce market liquidity, which in turn could cause home prices to fall. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) Swamped by Defaults.

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MishTalk

JUNE 27, 2013

During the coming week I believe that a significant amount of Wealth Management Prodiucts (WMP) will mature, and because of asset/liability mismatched this WMP must be rolled over. The most important effect is likely to be on demand for wealth management products. Already it seems that WMP rates are rising. Pettis Guest Post End.

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MishTalk

JULY 13, 2015

Keep in mind, BitGold will remain the high velocity payments engine of the combined entity, while GoldMoney will continue as the precious metals vaulting and investment firm. This makes silver an unattractive element for high velocity payments as we subsidize the storage fee from our own operational balance sheet.

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Harvard Business

MAY 1, 2017

Bain & Company’s Macro Trends Group carefully analyzed the global balance sheet and found that the world is awash in money. Global capital balances more than doubled between 1990 and 2010 — from $220 trillion (about 6.5 Yet the same crisis ushered in a new age of capital superabundance. times global GDP).

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

But while such information exchanges have become technically feasible, they are not yet financially beneficial to the information provider and difficult for the customer to value and incorporate into their management systems. The practice of management itself must evolve for this capability to emerge.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2017

His bottom line: “For a manager running a nonfinancial business, the proposed reforms to Dodd-Frank are probably a bad trade-off.” The flip side of the stress test, though, is that there is some possibility for the banks to reverse-engineer and game the results. For more on what the law does, go here.

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