MishTalk

AUGUST 26, 2013

Secretary of State John Kerry says the use of chemical weapons in Syria is " a moral obscenity ". Mr Kerry said on Monday President Bashar al-Assad’s forces’ responsibility for the use of chemical weapons in an attack which left hundreds dead last week was “undeniable”, cementing a sharp about-turn in Washington’s response to the issue.

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Comatch

MAY 16, 2022

Many companies in European markets that have producers or suppliers in China currently do not assess carbon footprint in their supply chains. The most significant impact of introducing a carbon border tax will be on the cost of products with high-carbon inputs, such as steel, aluminum, cement, chemicals, and electricity-intensive processes.

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Chemicals Energy Metrics Industry 52

Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2018

.” Embracing market risk in our careers is a high-percentage move. We are increasingly aware of the importance of assuming market risk when it comes to starting or growing a business, but assuming market risk is also a critical accelerant of the personal disruption that fuels individual career growth.

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1 to 1

MAY 9, 2013

A chemical manufacturer with a solid customer listening program noticed an uptick in complaints about pricing. It learned that some distributors were selling chemicals for applications in markets better served by off-the-shelf, commodity products. It conducted some root cause analysis, talking to those customers.

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Seth Godin Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Just about everyone over the age of fifteen, anywhere in the world, engages in the market in some way. Shopping releases chemicals in our brain. We need things and we buy them. That’s not what shopping is. Shopping is the act of imagining what you might want. Something that might be better than you hope, but it might not.

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Chemicals Sports Sales Culture 39

Tom Spencer

APRIL 1, 2022

Aerospace is one of the fastest growing markets. While both the size of the market and its growth rate are both large, so is its carbon footprint. The Aviation Market. Ever since the Wright Brother’s famous first flight in 1903, the aviation market has gone nowhere but up. Chemical Innovations.

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Trends Engineering Travel Airlines 88

Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

Consultants can work in a wide range of industries including automotive, CPG (consumer packaged goods), chemicals, defense, electronics, financial services, healthcare, infrastructure, logistics, media, mining, oil & gas, pharmaceuticals, private equity, retail, social sector, technology, telecommunications and tourism.

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Consulting Tourism Telecommunications Automotive 60

MishTalk

AUGUST 30, 2013

Western efforts to co-ordinate action against the Assad regime in Syria over charges of chemical attacks against civilians were dealt a blow on Thursday night when UK prime minister David Cameron lost a vote in the House of Commons on the issue. UK Will Not Join War Against Syria. Freedom Fries are Out.

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Chemicals Financial Interviews Report 70

MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Does Assad’s use of chemical weapons pose a threat to the national security interests of the United States? What''s the Difference Between the US Using Chemical Weapons and Others Doing the Same? The biggest user of chemical weapons in history is the United States of America. I don''t have the votes ". Blatant Hypocrisy.

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Seth Godin Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Both respond not only to direct, physical inputs (chemicals, illness) but more and more, to cultural ones, to the noise of comparisons and narratives. Marketers usually sell pleasure. Instead, they are things that are possible to get confused about in the short run, but in the long run, they couldn't be more different.

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Chemicals Comparison Construction Media 55

Harvard Business

APRIL 3, 2018

The paltry market for organic wine around the world belies the fact that over the past half century, countless organic winegrowers and vintners have dedicated great effort to creating a larger market for the category, without much success. Early Struggles. First, the conventional wine industry saw it as a threat.

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Chemicals Retail Case Interview Turnaround 35

Seth Godin Blog

JULY 29, 2018

Insulated glass, cars that don't break down, keyboards with just the right feel to them… Mechanical, electrical and chemical engineering are all moving faster than ever. Markets are more open to levelling up… new innovations that translate to productivity are adopted more easily.

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Engineering Chemicals Benchmarking Travel 26

Management Consulted

JANUARY 25, 2016

Generally regarded as turnaround market leaders, AlixPartners is doing a killer job at taking up more room in the consulting space by strategically hiring a plethora of gurus. 3 in the chemicals and pharma sector – brand eins. Leadership & Organizational Effectiveness. Turnaround & Restructuring. Effectiveness.

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Interviews Culture Turnaround Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

MARCH 17, 2017

In fact, when we look at what happens in the brain during this kind of one-sided selling interaction, we find that buyers may experience that negativity at a chemical level. Among the behaviors that create significant negative impacts are being focused on convincing others and behaving like others don’t understand.

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CaseInterview.com

JULY 18, 2019

The Financial Services Operating Group concerns itself with Banking, Capital Markets and Insurance. The Resources Operating group is devoted to Chemicals, Energy, Natural Resources and Utilities. Accenture's Marketing Transformation services consultants help executives build a high performance marketing operation.

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Accenture Case Interview Operations Automotive 45

Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2018

From targeted online advertising to more precise recommendation engines, consumer markets are bursting with innovation around machine learning and advanced analytics. Data-Driven Marketing. The service offers the possibility of enhancing an engineer’s marketability and growth and development. Marcus Winther/Getty Images.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 2, 2017

However, due to its rich history in the region, the firm knows the market deeper, better, and has the best government and private sector relationships. Aon entered the Middle East market in 1985. In terms of engagement cost, the MBB firms are still more expensive and exclusive, even in the Middle East. in revenue (wow!).

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Oliver Wyman Consulting Deloitte Real Estate 160

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Though the firm’s background is exclusively in pricing, in more recent years it has been breaking into other practice areas such as strategy, marketing, and sales. In 1996, Simon-Kucher opened an office in Boston and began to put more of a focus on its other three practice areas: strategy, marketing, and sales. What does this mean?

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Interviews Culture Case Interview Automotive 100

Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2018

Data-Driven Marketing. To understand which capabilities matter most, we studied a subset of top-performing companies, as defined by increased market share, self-described excellent pricing decisions, and execution of regular price increases. We gathered their self-rating of 42 pricing capabilities and outcomes. Insight Center.

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B2B Survey Company Sales 37

MishTalk

JUNE 15, 2014

Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. The last paragraph above explains all you need to know. Mike "Mish" Shedlock [link] Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management.

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Chemicals Energy Government Company 66

MishTalk

JUNE 2, 2015

percent and reflecting strength for chemical products. Chemical products, down six consecutive months, drove the decrease, $0.4 Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Ex-transportation, orders are unchanged, well down from the 0.5

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Chemicals Transportation Report Energy 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The top 25 food and beverage companies have lost $18 billion in market share since 2009. The risk to traditional grocers and Big Food is not just market share declines but category obsolescence. Another way to survive is to raise the price dramatically by going super-premium or by becoming very focused in local markets.

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Industry Chemicals Sales Marketing 53

MishTalk

MARCH 22, 2015

Is is free of chemicals? Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. A friend sent me a hilarious video this morning on bottled water. The video is from 2010, but it''s also timeless. Bottled water is a big industry, and profit margins are amazing.

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Successful Independent Consulting

JUNE 28, 2023

And how do we do it all without spending money and effort on digital advertising and direct marketing? It also makes us feel better chemically. When we’re kind or helpful to others, our brains get blasted with three pleasure chemicals: oxytocin, dopamine, and serotonin—the so-called “Happiness Trifecta.”

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How To Chemicals Strategy Strategy 195

MishTalk

JUNE 10, 2014

After his conviction in 1952 for gross indecency with a 19-year-old Manchester man, he was chemically castrated. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Instead of being hailed a hero, Turing was persecuted for his homosexuality.

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Chemicals Management Report Groups 71

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2017

It is tough to beat the market and over long periods of time indexing has been shown to outperform most active managers. On the other side, fans of active management see it as a trend that can damage market efficiency and lead to distortions in market prices. But what’s the role of investors?

Chemicals 28

Chemicals Industry Metrics Financial 28

Tom Spencer

AUGUST 6, 2020

With the US Federal Reserve printing up several trillion dollars of new money in 2020, market commentators have been banging the war drum. Does this mean that the market commentators are crying wolf about the risk of inflation? Reading Time: 8 minutes. Inflation is coming! in the first half of 2020. ” — Ayn Rand.

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Banking Government Financial Chemicals 109

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

A label may read, for example : “WARNING: This product contains a chemical known to the state of California to cause cancer.” ” Many consumers regard this cancer warning as comparable in severity to cigarette warnings, even though the risk levels depend on the chemical present and often differ markedly.

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Chemicals System Government Productivity 28

MishTalk

AUGUST 4, 2015

percent on order gains for oil and chemicals. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. The durable goods component, initially released last week, is unrevised at plus 3.4 The non-durables component, data released with today's report, rose 0.4

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Chemicals Fashion Transportation Energy 28

BCG

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. Report Wednesday, October 26, 2016.

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Melissa Agnes

DECEMBER 11, 2014

If heavy equipment is needed to rescue men from a mine collapse; or if you have to undertake costly medical tests; or if you need to hire a bulldozer to stop leaking chemicals reaching a river; no-one will say “but there’s no provision for that in this year’s budget.” Cost in a crisis is most often a secondary consideration.

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Media Conference Chemicals Interviews 99

Management Consulted

JANUARY 20, 2014

On February 8th, 2001, KPMG Consulting, LLC, went public on the NASDAQ starting at $18 per share under the ticker “KCIN” Their IPO was 6 months delayed due to the quickly declining high-tech consulting services market. Digital Marketing, Sales & Customer Services. Capital Markets. Chemicals & Life Sciences.

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BearingPoint Interviews Oliver Wyman Capgemini 139

Harvard Business

MAY 26, 2016

Firms engage in political “rent seeking”—lobbying for regulations that provide them sheltered markets—rather than competing on innovation. I account for the roles of R&D, spending on advertising and marketing, and on administrative costs, including IT. Regulators expected cable prices to fall by 10%.

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Pharmaceuticals Chemicals Industry Transportation 37

Harvard Business

APRIL 4, 2016

And while two years of shrinking GDP growth , sanctions , and a volatile ruble have led some companies like GM to leave the market, there has not been a large-scale exodus of MNCs from Russia. For multinational firms, Russia’s attractiveness lies primarily in the size and sophistication of its market.

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B2B Government Marketing Chemicals 28

MishTalk

JULY 15, 2015

percent gain for chemicals, and a 1.4 Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Manufacturing, and the key component for the series, is unchanged for a second straight month -- truly dead in the water at a year-on-year rate of only plus 1.8

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Industry Productivity Chemicals Retail 28

Jerry Fletcher

APRIL 24, 2021

I admit, I’ve been doing some outbound marketing to get some dates but the remarkable thing is that so many of these events have been booked because of the snowball effect. Facts: There is a brain chemical called Oxytocin which under lies our propensity to trust. Since March first I have been scheduled to speak on Trust 15 times.

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Marketing Consulting Chemicals Ethics 52

Harvard Business

APRIL 21, 2017

economy at this time – specifically electricity and chemicals, which accounted for 13.9% Our evidence is therefore consistent with classic notions of discrimination, where the wage income of certain types of individuals in the market is lower due to factors unrelated to their productivity. of all U.S.

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