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Data-Driven Decisions: Shortcut to Winning in the Market

Tom Spencer

For example, the Coca-Cola Company in North America introduced Freestyle vending machines in 2009 that offer consumers the ability to customize drinks by selecting from over 100 different products and flavors.

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Consultant Ninja: Friedman Billings Ramsey and Tom Peters.

Consultant Ninja

Monday, March 23, 2009. He attributes FBRs previous success to a unique methodology. March 26, 2009 at 2:14 AM. March 28, 2009 at 5:32 AM. Monday, March 23, 2009. Friedman Billings Ramsey and Tom Peters. Friedman Billings Ramsey was hot back in 2005 - boutique investment bank, middle market, a cool FBR acronym.

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What Research Tells Us About How Women Are Treated at Work

Harvard Business

The methodology: An analysis of email communication and meeting schedule data for hundreds of employees in one office over four months. The methodology: Observations of closed-room, face-to-face discussions of final funding decisions among Swedish government VCs. The question: Why do fewer women end up in senior positions than men?

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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business

To do so, we worked with AT Kearney, who led the piloting of our methodology; retailers McDonald’s and Carrefour; slaughterhouses JBS (the largest beef producer in Brazil) and Mafrig; Brazilian cattle ranchers, Antea Group, and partner NGOs The Nature Conservancy, Instituto Centro de Vida (ICV) and Imaflora. .

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What 45 Years of Data Tells Us About Globalization’s Influence on the Shadow Economy

Harvard Business

The OECD estimated in 2009 that 1.8 Methodology To measure the shadow sector, we used the global estimates created by the economists Ceyhun Elgin and Oguz Oztunali to measure informal activity. It makes up a substantial portion of the global economy.

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Abt Associates Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

In 2009, the UK Department for International Development awarded Abt $200M+ to strengthen Nigeria’s health system, the largest contract in the Company’s history. In 2007, Abt bought the NYC-based research firm SRBI, combining two market leaders and greatly impacting both companies.

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Jeremy Grantham 1999, Jeremy Grantham Today: "Over Next Seven Years, Market Will have Negative Returns"

MishTalk

Please consider this Forbes Interview of Jeremy Grantham , by Steve Forbes, from 2009. And given our methodology, that would mean that on October the 6th, the market should have been fairly priced on our current approach. In the process, he lost 60% of his asset base simply for not acting like a drunken fool, like nearly everyone else.