MishTalk

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Both the 1979 Statute of Autonomy and the current one, approved in 2006, state that "Catalonia, as a nationality, exercises its self-government constituted as an Autonomous Community in accordance with the Constitution and with the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia, which is its basic institutional law, always under the law in Spain".

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Consultant Ninja

AUGUST 14, 2009

For the period of 2006-2008, I was somewhat entranced by the wizardry (and compensation) of my finance peers. Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. Friday, August 14, 2009. The Curious Case of Equity Private, Part I.

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Consultant Ninja

MARCH 5, 2009

2) United appears to have done minimal hedging through 2006 & 2007, only launching on a massive hedging action in 2008. Unfortunately they locked them in at level that guarantees an operating loss. I think a firm that locks in a loss to minimize risk isnt really thinking through the point of hedging.

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Consultant Ninja

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

"I have a reputation going back three years and three months with literally hundreds of thousands of words of my prose" - Equity Private , May 17, 2009 Her anonymous resume, as near as I can tell, is as follows: EquityPrivate.Typepad.com : February 2006 - February 2009 FinemRespice.com : February 2009 - Present DealBreaker.com : September 15, 2008 (..)

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BCG

MAY 17, 2016

However, investment banks, on the sell side, are expected to generate just over $205 billion by 2020, a decrease to 31% of the total revenue pool from 53% in 2006.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 23, 2013

By 2006, 146K MBA degrees were granted. It was interesting to know that private equity firms are among the largest clients of the strategy consulting giants. Many top strategy consultants end up as a partner in a large private equity firm. As another fun fact, 3K MBA degrees were granted in the U.S.A.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 15, 2018

I’ve worked from home since 2006, when I launched my consulting and speaking business. And, at times, the solitude may lead to isolation or the feeling that you’re left out at work. How can you combat loneliness and create positive relationships with colleagues when you work from home full-time?

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MishTalk

JUNE 21, 2014

When I left my position as defense secretary in 2006, Iraqis — with a love for democracy just like our founding fathers — were refreshing the tree of liberty with the blood of practically everyone, not just tyrants. Donald Rumsfeld is an American politician and businessman.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2018

In 2006 Google acquired YouTube for an eye-popping (for the time) figure of $1.6 Let’s look at a couple of well-known examples of strategic value. YouTube’s business was wildly unprofitable, and the liability issues it faced for illegally posted videos seemed virtually limitless.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

As shown in the exhibit below, for each of the years 2006 through 2015 the average total compensation of the 500 highest-paid U.S. executives using ARG numbers was greater than the average total compensation of the 500 highest paid using EFV measures, and markedly so in 2006-2007 and 2012-2015, when the stock markets were booming.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 30, 2016

When Steve Clapp and Carl Gerlach took over the Ball Park hot dog brand in 2006, the brand had not grown in three years and was a good decade beyond its successful Michael Jordan ad campaign , with the tagline “Plump when you cook ‘em.”

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Women in Consulting

MARCH 1, 2018

In all that success, Deborah joined WIC twice: to support her consulting business from 2000 to 2006 and then again in 2014 when she went back to consulting after 8 years at Cisco. She also served as WIC president in 2004-2006. She was quick to share these tried and true lessons from her early WIC years.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

By 2006, the company received 150 T-shirt designs per day and had over 400,000 users voting on shirts. Founded in 2000, the online firm allows users to submit t-shirt designs and vote on the best ones. Threadless prints and sells the winners. This model has been extremely successful.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 25, 2017

When Alan Mulally came to Ford in 2006 to help turn around the business, he took bold actions to change the way they company operated. In this highly symbolic move, he left no doubt about his intentions—and about what he thought it would take to make Starbucks great again.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

In 2006 alone, Nokia introduced 39 new mobile-device models. Seeking to extend its technological edge (particularly in miniaturization), it acquired more than 100 startup companies while pursuing a vast portfolio of research and product development projects.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

As Xerox’s CEO Anne Mulcahy said in the Dean’s Innovative Leader Series at MIT in 2006: “In trying to rebound, we spent the vast majority of our time talking to customers.” ” By 2011, two-thirds of Xerox’s revenues came from products or services it had introduced within the last two years.

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Consultant Ninja

MARCH 4, 2009

It also appears that UAL did very little hedging in 2007 or 2006. Just because a hedge looses money doesnt mean its speculative - it may be doing exactly what it is supposed to do or could be just be a bad hedge. The 10K mentions using collars - these basically look in a fuel price for a buyer or seller.

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

The crazy solution: Brandeau asked Disney Animation (Disney bought Pixar in 2006) if the studio could borrow 250 computers, an idea someone initially called “insane.” ” The team trucked the computers 360 miles from Burbank, California, to Emeryville, near San Francisco, setting the systems up over a weekend.

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

When Warren Buffett retired from Coca-Cola’s board in 2006, he said he no longer had the time necessary. Board service has always been very demanding. When you consider all of the retreats, travel, reading, meeting prep time, transactions, and committee meetings involved, it is a wonder anyone serves at all.

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Government Development Journal Study 120

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Since 2006, hundreds of companies — including global brands like Novartis , Hewlett-Packard , and Rolls Royce — have reached settlements with U.S. Yet, according to the World Bank , roughly one-third of firms around the world use kickbacks, paying an estimated total of $400 billion a year.

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Consultants' Consultant

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

This article was published in Leadership Excellence in 2006. BPR your life takes the principles of business process re-engineering and applies them to the way you manage your time (and therefore your life). Other authors in that issue include Warren Bennis and Dave Ulrich. Five principles of re-engineering your […].

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Engineering Management Consulting Leadership 51

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The company last entered China in 2006 with a censored search engine, but pulled the plug on the operation four years later after it discovered that human-rights activists’ Gmail accounts had been hacked. Reportedly, Facebook has also attempted to enter China, though it has faced tremendous public outcry and difficulty in doing so.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 16, 2016

In 2006, they acquired The Real Learning Company, which specializes in providing models, tools and programs for mapping, developing and managing performance for individuals and teams. In 2006 BTS also acquired Advantage Performance Group, Inc which focuses on business development.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

That company, Pixar , was sold to Disney in 2006 for $7.4 Later they joined George Lucas, who saw the potential for computer graphics to create a new paradigm for special effects. Eventually, the operation was spun out and bought by Steve Jobs. Create diversity.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2017

from 2006 to 2014 and are projected to grow at an average of 4.2% in national health spending overall from 2006 to 2016. In any case, if the nation were to embark on a drive to make the delivery of health care more efficient, Medicare and Medicaid would not be the most promising places to start. from 2014 to 2023. from 2014 to 2023.

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Insurance Insurance Efficiency Ethics 73

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Our findings are similar to those of a 2006 survey of HR leaders on training of virtual teams, suggesting that while technology and virtual work itself has advanced dramatically in recent years, our preparation to work virtually has not.

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Survey Research Meeting Productivity 132

MishTalk

JUNE 3, 2014

That was on a par with the levels only seen in 2000 and 2006/2007. At the time, the ratio of assets invested in equity mutual funds and ETFs had eclipsed the assets stashed in safe money market funds by a factor of 3. The reason it was notable is because it had been bounded during the past 15 years, as stocks traded within a broad range.

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Marketing Data Management Strategy 69

MishTalk

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Auto lending, like housing in 2006, appears to be a no-lose proposition. No doubt the loans are sliced, diced, tranched, and securitized to make them appear as AAA. Pension funds are probably dumping gold to load up on them. After all, the Fed is in complete control.

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Finance Sales Banking Report 76

1 to 1

JULY 24, 2014

Since its start in 2006, PURE has grown more than 40 percent each year, and has one of the highest Net Promoter Scores in any industry. PURE insurance is using its customer-obsessed business model to stand out in the insurance industry. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog.

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Insurance Insurance Industry Strategy 47

MishTalk

APRIL 22, 2014

Though that''s a 33% jump from 2006, the pace is half that of the 50 to 64 age group. Many more young adults live with their parents than those in their 50s and early 60s live with theirs. Among 18- to 29-year-olds, 1.6 million Californians have taken up residence in their childhood bedrooms, according to the data.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2016

By 2006, GMCR owned 100% of Keurig and officially renamed Keurig Green Mountain (KGM) in 2014. The partnership provided Keurig with the funding it needed, plus the value-added education in roasting and brewing coffee, and gave GMCR a stake in a promising innovation at relatively low risk.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 24, 2013

As Fed chairman until 2006, practically the eve of the financial crisis, Greenspan couldn’t see the storm on the horizon. Flashback May 21, 2006. Thus I mockingly talked about his call on May 27, 2006 in Greenspan Predicts Housing Bust. Let’s review. No National Housing Bubble. Confronting Bubbles. Today Greenspan Says. “In

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Banking Case Interview Marketing Policies 70

MishTalk

JANUARY 7, 2014

Global equity mutual funds and exchange-traded funds received $195 billion, edging past the previous record inflow of $183 billion in 2006. In a note to clients, TrimTabs explained that U.S. Retail investors are particularly enthusiastic about non-U.S. stocks, which should make contrarians wary,” said Santschi. equity mutual funds.

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Retail Report Research Marketing 69

MishTalk

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

billion in January, the lowest since 2006, from $20.4 The IMF in 2010 agreed to lend $15.6 billion to Ukraine, only to freeze disbursements the following year after the government refused to raise domestic natural-gas prices to trim the budget deficit. Reserves Shrivel Foreign reserves probably shrank to $18.7 Reserves fell to $17.8

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Banking Travel Financial Report 71

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 19, 2016

A decade ago, the Mach 3 razor was Gillette’s premium offering for men, until the Fusion line was launched in 2006 at a 40% price increase, followed by the Fusion ProGlide in 2010 and the Fusion Proshield Flexball in 2016—to name a few of the brand’s major releases.

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Marketing Retail Productivity Sales 70

Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

Disney’s existing contract to distribute Pixar films was slated to end in 2006 and Pixar had announced two years earlier it would not renew the arrangement.). Iger could have continued trying to infuse Disney animation from within but he realized the best opportunities can sometimes be created through alliances with other businesses.

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Film Industry Examples Strategy 70

Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2017

The company also aspired to raise the overseas portion of its revenue in response to the projected shrinking of the Japanese GDP as a portion of global GDP ( from 12% in 2006 to 3% in 2050 ) and wanted to expand its global talent pool. Above all, company aspired to become the number one internet services company in the world.

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