MishTalk

AUGUST 31, 2015

Via translation from Libre Mercado, The Greek Economy Lost 17,000 Jobs in July, the Worst Result Since 2001. Industrial production recorded a record drop in July, according to estimates by Markit. According to the local press, Greece destroyed about 17,000 jobs in July, the worst result since 2001. What a disaster.

Data 28

Data Industry Productivity Management 28

Consultant Ninja

MARCH 23, 2009

It wasnt until 2001 that he admitted that he made up most of the data in the book. Productivity. (6). One week before seeing FBRs stock price, I ran across a long story from Tom Peters of In Search of Excellence fame. of nights) AMEX Charges: $83,296. Consulting. (88). Analysis. (40). Bitterness. (26). Visualization. (5). Vignettes. (3).

Oliver Wyman 100

Oliver Wyman Consulting Airlines McKinsey 100

Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

” In 2001 Schillinger landed a position in France at the vaccine maker. To date, she has occupied positions in human resources, product development, and stakeholder engagement. “I will not fall into complacency. No matter what, I will continue to hone myself.”

Exercises 132

Exercises Construction Company Development 132

Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

A more reasonable starting point might be the 1930s, when the physicist and statistician Walter Shewhart of Bell Labs began applying Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles to the improvement of products and processes. So he began by learning everything he could about maximizing organizational productivity.

Agile 70

Agile Methodologies Software Development 70

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Clarke painted a picture of how computers would change our way of life by the year 2001. Every year we learn more about the benefits of remote work, including increased productivity and the ability to attract Millennial workers. In his 1974 interview with ABC News , science fiction author Arthur C.

Management 130

Management Case Interview Leadership Interviews 130

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

In the 2001 recession, total sales for the S&P 500 declined by 9% from its pre-recession peak to its trough 18 months later—almost a year after the recession officially ended. Worse, most don’t have a quantified view of profitability by customer, product line and transaction. billion vs. $1.2

Sales 129

Sales B2B Tools Software 129

MishTalk

AUGUST 2, 2014

Senior members of the Afghan government have accrued vast wealth since 2001 including members of President Karzai’s family. billion spent on counter-narcotics operations, opium production has increased for the past three years and is now at record levels. Western forces are “trapped in a warlord protection racket” Despite $7.6

How To 77

How To Transportation Government Operations 77

Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. Maximize engineering productivity. aleksandarvelasevic/Getty Images.

Agile 73

Agile Development Methodologies Software 73

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 27, 2016

But by 2001, the once-dominant Buckeyes had slipped into mediocrity. The majority of Fortune 500 companies reward the most productive individuals, not the most effective groups or indispensable group members. The staff reasoned that rewarding stellar individual performances would provide the right incentive to excel.

Sports 133

Sports Groups Construction Research 133

Harvard Business

JULY 17, 2018

During Jeff Immelt’s tenure as CEO of General Electric, from 2001 until 2017, the company’s stock price fell by over 30%, a decline of roughly $150 billion in shareholder value. When Jack Welch stepped down as CEO in 2001, GE’s defined benefit (DB) plan was sitting on a surplus of $14.6

Cash Flow 70

Cash Flow Finance Financial Company 70

Johanna Rothman

JUNE 18, 2021

I wrote an article in 2001: Crisis? They hired me because they were in danger of going out of business due to their inability to release a working product. That's because they had an architecture that couldn't scale, people who couldn't do the work, and a mess of a product. I've worked in the software industry since the 1970s.

Software 95

Software Talent Meeting Tools 95

Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2018

I interviewed them about one of the last big crises for startups: the dot-com crash of 2000-2001. Senapathy “Kris” Gopalakrishnan, a co-founder of the India-based Infosys, saw his company’s market value on NASDAQ drop 90% from 2000 to 2001. David Kenny, then CEO of Digitas, a U.S.-based

Financial 100

Financial Case Interview Company Advertising 100

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

They are hard to do in a company that excels at products. While Steve Jobs ran Apple, he drove the vision but put strong operating execs in each domain – hardware, software, product design, supply chain, manufacturing – who translated his vision and impatience into plans, process, and procedures.

Operations 70

Operations Productivity Software Talent 70

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. The differences were dramatic. We calculate that U.S.

Management 70

Management Metrics Financial Company 70

Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

An outside-in perspective means that companies aim to creatively deliver something of value to customers, rather than focus simply on products and sales. It’s worth noting that the companies and business units in my study were tracked between 2001 and 2007. Bagged salad would not have risen to what is now, a $2.5-billion-a-year

Education 91

Education Real Estate Research Company 91

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

More than half that reached the top quintile in terms of economic profit generation between 2001 and 2005 had been knocked off their perch a decade later, in 2010-15. Many of these suppliers are small- and medium-sized companies that tend to be less productive than the larger firms, but are nonetheless critical for employment.

Comparison 70

Comparison Research Productivity Policies 70

Harvard Business

JANUARY 18, 2017

Innovation could come to the rescue by boosting the productivity of the remaining labor force. If the more productive few can produce as much output as the less productive many, GDP will not fall. Similarly, with fewer but more productive workers in the population, per-capita GDP may stay constant.

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Study Policies Government Productivity 70

Women in Consulting

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

:: Since founding my consulting company in 2001, I’ve been serving Silicon Valley CEOs as an interim VP marketing. If you’re tempted to say that no one else offers the same product or service that you do, then there’s a good chance that either you’re kidding yourself or there is no market for what you want to sell.

Marketing 70

Marketing Engineering B2B Guidelines 70

MishTalk

APRIL 18, 2015

You are more productive than ever. Together, these factors are pushing wages upward, with an average annual increase of 12 percent since 2001. Congratulations. Just don''t expect to be paid more for it. In reality, some machine is doing all that for you. The government’s involvement in this process shouldn’t come as a surprise.

Productivity 28

Productivity Government Report Trends 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

Box 3: Generate breakthrough ideas and convert them into new products and businesses. ” He continued, “let’s not launch Product X version 2 and instead focus all our efforts on Product Y.” To endure, companies must excel at all three boxes, or their success could be very short-lived.

Company 70

Company Culture Turnaround Productivity 70

MishTalk

OCTOBER 24, 2013

For someone so exercised about federal deficits, Greenspan is strangely silent on his own role in the Bush tax cuts, which might not have been adopted in 2001 (further cuts came in 2003) without his blessing for the general concept. irrational exuberance in 1996, Greenspan embraced the "productivity. Federal Deficits. along the way.

Banking 70

Banking Case Interview Marketing Policies 70

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Ideally, these warnings provide requisite risk information, allowing people to decide for themselves whether an activity or a product’s benefits outweigh its risks, whether to take those risks, and, if so, with what precautions. Warnings on widely used consumer products are a relatively new phenomenon. How did we get here?

Chemicals 70

Chemicals System Government Productivity 70

Harvard Business

MAY 12, 2017

The next recession, which came in 2001, was short and mild (GDP barely fell), but it took four years for the job market to heal, prompting the Federal Reserve to administer the economy a long course of low interest rates. labor market is like an aging athlete; it is taking longer and longer to recover from recessions. economy recovers.

Sales 71

Sales Trends Policies Marketing 71

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Take Anne Mulcahy, who stepped into the CEO role at Xerox in 2001, during a particularly tough time in the company’s history. So Anderson embarked on a campaign to win over the doubters and move them to reimagine the company’s processes, products, and role in the industry.

Turnaround 70

Turnaround How To Survey Enterprise 70

Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2017

launched a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) subscription version of its key product line, Creative Suite, causing its net income to plummet by almost 35% percent the following year. Investors preferred new SaaS products over product conversions and valued having a product fallback option. On April 23, 2012, Adobe Inc.

Company 70

Company Software Sales Study 70

MishTalk

JANUARY 2, 2014

Production in the series average and the fastest since March 2012. Recall that Alan Greenspan used the term " measured pace " when he started hiking rates after the 2001 recession. Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index™ (PMI™). up from 54.7 in November and above the earlier flash estimate of 54.4,

Company 60

Company Report Analysis Management 60

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

In 2001 the list of companies with the highest market caps was dominated by blue chips. ” Nadella challenged the company to see beyond its legacy products like Windows, invested heavily in new technologies like AI and SaaS, purchased LinkedIn to plug Microsoft services into the company’s social graph, and more.

Management 71

Management Enterprise Metrics Productivity 71

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 4, 2017

recessions (1991, 2001, 2007–09) have been jobless, meaning that employment was slow to rebound despite recovery in total economic output. production and operatives). That is, rather than disappearing entirely, surviving routine-cognitive occupations appear to have become both relatively higher-skilled and more productive.

Trends 75

Trends Education Policies Research 75

Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2018

publicly listed companies from 2001 to 2015, looking at patterns of investment, growth, earnings quality, and earnings management. The trouble with short-term thinking is that in many cases, it doesn’t reward shareholders in the long term. The McKinsey Global Institute examined the performance of 615 large- and mid-cap U.S.

McKinsey 76

McKinsey Healthcare Survey Pharmaceuticals 76

Harvard Business

JANUARY 11, 2017

The companies that are most vocal about environmental and social issues tend to be big, mass-market brands — well-known retailers , consumer products giants , and tech firms that are telling a new story to consumers who increasingly care about sustainability. I’ll then discuss some of LVMH’s challenges.

Energy 70

Energy Productivity Financial Retail 70

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Similarly, one day the team was packing away the furniture and a casual remark about how much space a pair of table legs took up led to another revolutionary idea: what would happen if we were to flat-pack our products? The rest is history, but it was a unique offering at the time. 18,000 people waited eagerly for the store to open.

Culture 71

Culture Real Estate Retail Company 71

Harvard Business

JANUARY 11, 2017

In late 2001 ImClone awaited approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of its much-heralded new cancer treatment, but unexpectedly the FDA decided to reject the company’s application. Take the decision of Sam Waksal, the former CEO of the emerging biotechnology company ImClone Systems.

Ethics 70

Ethics Training Training Exercises 70

Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2017

The articles — “Competing on the Eight Dimensions of Quality” (1987) and “What Does ‘Product Quality’ Really Mean?” The central idea is that decision making is a process, not an event.

Management 108

Management Turnaround Engineering Benchmarking 108

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

The challenge facing sellers of some genuine product — be it true late-night love or a Tiffany necklace on eBay — and the buyers in search of them is to prove that they’re not just full of empty words. This is where Super Bowl ads come in.

Advertising 70

Advertising Case Interview Recruitment Recruiting 70

Harmonious Workplaces

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Without a recruitment firm’s assistance, a company’s internal staff must handle these tasks, which can detract from their core responsibilities and reduce overall productivity. Hire a Competent and Ethical Recruiter As I mentioned, since 2001, I have worked with various recruiters, executive search firms, and headhunters.

Recruiting 98

Recruiting Recruitment Meeting B2C 98

Martinka Consulting

OCTOBER 9, 2013

I always recommend the book, The Secrets of Word-of-Mouth Marketing by George Silverman (Amacom, 2001). Of course, as with the juicer, the best thing you can do is provide fantastic service or a great product. It’s filled with great strategies and tactics to increase referrals, accelerate the sales process and more.

Marketing 40

Marketing Sales Course Examples 40

CaseInterview.com

MARCH 17, 2020

There was 9/11 in 2001. My guidance has usually been in the context of a client seeing major drops in sales, engaging in layoffs, and redirecting the team in a productive direction (as opposed to being paralyzed by fear or working on their resumes). There was the dot-com boom and crash of 2000. There was the Great Recession in 2008.

Leadership 88

Leadership Case Interview Interviews Sales 88