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Wealth Management: Building and Protecting Fortunes

Tom Spencer

A client’s risk tolerance will tend to increase in proportion to their income and investment experience, and decrease inversely in proportion to their age, family or health problems, number of financial dependents, and market volatility. Zuhair Imaduddin is an Innovation Development Analyst at JPMorgan Chase.

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Embracing Experiential Learning

Tom Spencer

A few experiential learning opportunities to look for on campus include consulting clubs, finance clubs, student government, and technology development teams. On-campus engagements are opportunities for students to engage with their peers in a productive environment. Opportunities on-campus.

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What is consulting?

Tom Spencer

Some people also call consulting a ‘talk-job’ – you go to the clients, you talk about what the ideal world scenario would be for a particular project, product or market, and your billable hours are sorted. Sales, Marketing, Production) and secondary functions (e.g. Finance, HR, Supply Chain, ICT, Legal).

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China Accelerates Bad Debt Writeoffs; Reflections on "Policies to Counter Economic Volatility"

MishTalk

Financial stress related to Ponzi financing and other bad debts in China is readily visible in numerous places. We have policies in store to counter economic volatility. Policies to Counter Economic Volatility Yes indeed, central banks have "policies in store to counter economic volatility", and they use them.

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Want To Be On The Leading Edge? Forget About It.

Markovitz Consulting

All too often, companies that strive for first mover advantage bleed their products—or their entire organization—to death. Peter Golder and Gerard Tellis’s seminal study of 500 brands in 50 product categories reveals that almost half of market pioneers fail. Good luck finding any of those products today.

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Sustainable Aviation: Emerging Trends and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

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. Policy Incentives.

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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

By not dancing, CEOs cost their companies billions of dollars of lost employee innovation, productivity, and customer service. In the 1940’s, Peter Drucker praised the company for its product decentralization but criticized it, even back then, for treating employees as a feudal cost center rather than a base of knowledge and potential.