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How People Analytics Can Help You Change Process, Culture, and Strategy

Harvard Business

In one example, a people analytics team at a global CPG company was enlisted to help optimize a financial process that took place monthly in every country subsidiary around the world. One people analytics team in an engineering company was struggling to help develop the company’s managers, for example.

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Show report: CX and EX inextricably linked, with empathy as the glue

1 to 1

Youtuber and former NASA engineer Mark Rober illustrated the power of connectivity with a science demonstration, releasing thousands of balloons at once to earn a spot in the Guinness World Book of Records. Empathy is equally crucial to the employee experience.

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Emerging Market Contagion Spreads; Argentina, Venezuela, Turkey Roundup; 50% Tax on Internet Purchases

MishTalk

Emerging Market Contagion Spreads Bloomberg reports Contagion Spreads in Emerging Markets as Crises Grow The worst selloff in emerging-market currencies in five years is beginning to reveal the extent of the fallout from the Federal Reserve’s tapering of monetary stimulus, compounded by political and financial instability.

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Brews, News and Booz & Company: Interview and Culture Insights

Management Consulted

Booz, Business Engineering Service; Edwin G. Most recently, Booz & Company acquired Management Engineers , based in Dusseldorf, Germany. Financial Services. We call what eventually became Booz affectionately, “the firm” because it went through so many name changes till it became what it is now. Program Management.

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What the Companies on the Right Side of the Digital Business Divide Have in Common

Harvard Business

billion, including most major firms in the manufacturing, consumer packaged goods, financial services, and retail industries. Other financial and operating indicators showed similar disparities. more likely to use data to benchmark customers and advise them on how to realize greater value. Digital leaders are 2.3x

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Pettis on Strains in China's Banking System; Avoiding the Fall

MishTalk

While the benchmark deposit rate was officially lowered from 3.00% to 2.75%, the upper limit that banks can pay for deposits remained unchanged at 3.30%. It may seem strange to have both a benchmark rate and a “floating range” that establishes a cap, instead of just setting a cap, as was the case until very recently.

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"Bond Girl" on Chicago and the Quality of Credit Analysis in the Municipal Bond Market

MishTalk

There is a conversation to be had about how politics influences the perception of financial commitments and whether bond structures can further evolve to protect bondholders. Does the general obligation pledge allow governments to over-commit themselves financially in certain political contexts?