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How to Be More Productive Without Burning Out

Harvard Business

Like many of my classmates, shortly after college, I joined the ranks of a top strategy and management consulting firm. According to a 2008 survey , the vast majority of professionals (94%) worked 50 hours or more a week, and almost half worked more than 65 hours a week. The same is true for productivity. Moment/Getty Images.

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Hilarious Transcripts of Fed Minutes from 2008 Reveal Completely Clueless Fed

MishTalk

Here is a list of FOMC Transcripts and Other Historical Materials, 2008 Notes I purposely cherry picked statements of various Fed governors. Amazingly, Bernanke spoke of pent-up demand for housing in January of 2008 The January 29-30 transcript was a whopping 194 pages long. percentage point to GDP growth in 2008 and 0.3

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Is Behavioral Economics Used in Business?

Steve Shu Consulting

” Broad conscious, concerted efforts to apply behavioral economics probably did not begin until sometime after 2008 with the release of Thaler and Sunstein’s book, Nudge. One key observation I’ve had is that certain companies can have different strategies for implementing behavioral economics.

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Your New Hit Product Might Be Underpriced

Harvard Business

The odds are stacked against new products or services. We have diagnosed thousands of product failures over the last 30 years, and have found recurring patterns. Often new products are over-engineered with too many features, usually at too high a price. The problem with wildly successful products. How could they not have?

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Main Risks of Aerospace Engineering Projects: How to Implement Wise Risk Management into Your Organization

Epicflow

Issues with the supply chain lead to poor quality of products and delays in their releases. AS9100 is an international standardized quality management system for the aerospace industry, which aims to improve safety and reliability of aerospace products. Step 4: Developing risk response strategies. Customer satisfaction. .

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Navigating a Downturn: Strategies for Business Resilience

Tom Spencer

Diversify Revenue Streams One fundamental strategy for business resilience is to diversify revenue streams. Although it is fairly common for a successful business to generate 80% of its profits from 20% of its products, relying heavily on a small number of products, services, or markets exposes a business to significant risk.

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The Power of Designing Products for Customers You Don’t Have Yet

Harvard Business

Traditional banks should have had all the tools to create new products for consumers who were frustrated with their options, but they focused instead on segmenting customers more or less into “wealthy” or “not worth it.” ” In 2012 ING Direct was sold to Capital One for $9 billion.