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The Next Supply-Chain Challenge Isn’t a Shortage — It’s Inventory Glut

Harvard Business

Electronics littered shelves in 2001 after the dot-com bubble burst. And now, the high-tech industry is feeling the weight of a volatile market that has led to excess component inventory. Inventory challenges aren’t new. In 2009, the financial crash left manufacturers with excess inventory when consumer buying power suddenly dropped.

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Greece Loses 17,000 Jobs in July, Most Since 2001

MishTalk

Via translation from Libre Mercado, The Greek Economy Lost 17,000 Jobs in July, the Worst Result Since 2001. According to the local press, Greece destroyed about 17,000 jobs in July, the worst result since 2001. He does not want the grim news of job losses and austerity to hit when he is more vulnerable. What a disaster.

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Did Ukraine Shoot Down Passenger Plane? They Did Once Before: SA Flight 1812 Erroneously Downed by Ukraine in 2001

MishTalk

The only other civilian airliner to have been shot down over Ukrainian airspace was the Siberian Airlines flight from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk in 2001. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. So we are talking some heavy duty weaponry here.

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Why CEO’s Hire Consultants and Coaches: The REAL Value They Bring with Brad Rex

Consulting Matters

During his twelve-and-a-half-year tenure, he worked in finance and strategic planning before taking over as leader of Epcot theme park on the week of 911, 2001. He was offered an executive job at Disney and moved to Orlando, Florida, in 1994.

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Full of Bull: Wall Street Analysts' S&P 500 Predicted Gains vs. Actual Gains 2001-2015

MishTalk

Mehta collected 186 public forecasts from 1998-2015 of the annual ritual of making market projections for the year ahead. For a couple years, when Barron’s data wasn’t easily available, Mehta used market prediction made in USA Today’s or similar surveys. Data prior to 2001 was for the Dow. Some of the firms are now extinct.

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Top Five Lessons Learned from My 16 Years as an “Interim VP Marketing”

Women in Consulting

:: Since founding my consulting company in 2001, I’ve been serving Silicon Valley CEOs as an interim VP marketing. Usually they are running smallish companies and either haven’t yet brought a full-time VP marketing on board or they just lost their VP marketing for some reason. Competition is a good thing.

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How Robots Will Change the Future of Marketing

Henry DeVries

According to my buddy and fellow author, the marketing cyborgs are coming. But forget those sci-fi images of your marketing robots running amuck, like HAL in Arthur Clarke’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” (“I am afraid I can’t do that direct marketing project, Dave.”). Some are already here. Don’t fear the robots.