Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department.

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Company Survey Finance Engineering 155

MishTalk

DECEMBER 10, 2013

French industrial output dropped unexpectedly in October for the second month in a row, data from national statistics bureau Insee showed Tuesday, providing a further indication of a weak start to the final quarter of 2013 in the euro zone. Industrial production in the currency bloc''s second largest economy fell 0.3% rise in October.

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Finance Industry Data Report 74

Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2012

As a result of the crisis, there was less money available for consumption and investment activity, and businesses found it difficult to re-finance existing loans. Copyright © 2013 Tom Spencer. Lehman Brothers and other investment banks went down in part due to the huge amounts of money they lost in the sub-prime mortgage crisis.

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Consulting Case Interview Banking Financial 147

Tom Spencer

JUNE 17, 2013

by Ashley Sherman on June 18, 2013 · 1 comment  ·  Image Source. The number of consultants hired for public sector projects has been steadily increasing ever since, spiking to new heights over the past few years in response to the tumultuous state of public sector finances. June 18, 2013 at 10:57 am. Definitions.

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Consulting Boston Consulting Group Government Case Interview 116

MishTalk

DECEMBER 31, 2013

In 2013 France stood out as the perfect model of economic ineptitude. Billion Lower than Expected; Poll Shows 92% Do Not Believe Hollande''s Tax Promises November 29, 2013: Montebourg Targets UGAP Over "Made in France" November 03, 2013: "France is Not a Cash Cow"; Riots Over Ecotax Continue; Is Anyone Happy? France managed.

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Finance Insurance Insurance Construction 74

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

The past five years have seen explosive growth in “corporate green bonds” issued to finance climate-friendly projects. While investors bought just $3 billion of these bonds in 2013, they scooped up $49 billion worth in 2017, bringing the total sold since 2013 to $113 billion at an average of $308 million per offering.

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Company Financial Analysis Operations 129

Harvard Business

MARCH 24, 2017

ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S. Most made their money early on by buying or mining bitcoin when it was still under $10 (in the early days of 2011-2013). Since 2013, there’s been about $2 billion invested in blockchain and bitcoin startups from the VC community.

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Financial Finance Government Software 132

Steve Shu Consulting

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

The book is not intended to explore detailed behavioral science principals as covered in other great books like Thinking, Fast and Slow (Kahneman 2013) or The Last Mile (Soman 2015). Chapter 2: Organizations Can Package Behavioral Science for Good – This chapter describes a case of using behavioral finance in the retirement plan design space.

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Ethics System Finance Company 150

MishTalk

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Article author Rick Newman states " In 2013 members of Congress worked less, got paid a lot more and struggled to produce anything of significance. While You''re Working, Congress Isn''t Please consider six factoids plucked from the Yahoo!Finance The Senate has logged 146 days in session so far this year. government for the next 220 years.

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Finance Government Report Groups 77

Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Copyright © 2013 Tom Spencer. Assess the organisation’s strategic direction: Is the organisation performing well, or does it need a completely new strategy? Categories. Select Category. Business Frameworks. Business Strategy. Case Interviews. Leadership. Management Consulting. Other stuff. All rights reserved.

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Consulting Case Interview Finance Financial 92

MishTalk

DECEMBER 4, 2013

The exit tax was established in 1999, repealed in 2005, then reintroduced in the first Amended Finance Act for 2011. He’s planning to raise an additional €20 billion in 2013. Despite the tough stance, the measure is expected to have very little impact on the public finances. billion in 2011 and €11.7 billion in 2011 and €11.7

Finance 74

Finance Government Report Data 74

Tom Spencer

MAY 31, 2012

Accenture offers management consulting services covering finance & performance management, talent & organisation performance, strategy, customer relationship management, and supply chain management. September 3, 2013 at 4:11 am. September 3, 2013 at 10:58 am. September 22, 2013 at 5:30 am. Website: www.pwc.com.

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Oliver Wyman Strategy& Strategy Strategy 122

MishTalk

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

France announced on Wednesday it was breaking the latest in a long line of promises to European Union partners to cut its public deficit, conceding it now would take until 2017 to bring its finances in line with EU rules. Compared to the first''s expectation Amending Finance Act passed in late July, 6.1 of GDP this year and 3% next.

Finance 69

Finance Government Report Meeting 69

Harvard Business

APRIL 21, 2016

We plotted shared directorships among 176 large companies in 1976 and 2013, two years that followed a major global economic crisis. Only about 18% of interlocks were international in 1976, and most of those were transatlantic links in finance and energy — two of the first industries to begin globalizing. Board Interlocks, 2013.

Government 70

Government Energy Banking Finance 70

Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2016

and globally, and Habitat for Humanity, which works in 70-plus nations to provide home construction, rehabilitation, and increased access to shelter and financing, gathered data from their sites to make the case for profound change. Frontline Data as Wake Up Call.

Data 121

Data Finance Survey Education 121

Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

Over the last few decades, countless risky financial products were sold to investors using harmless sounding terms like “credit default swap”, “mortgage backed security”, “special purpose vehicle” and “off-balance sheet financing”. Copyright © 2013 Tom Spencer. Categories. Select Category. Business Frameworks. Business Strategy.

Balance Sheet 89

Balance Sheet Consulting Case Interview Financial 89

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

since 2013 , and shrank by more than 1,700 in 2017 alone. In Sweden, for example, the portion of approved bank loans to small and medium-size enterprises has decreased by 15% over the last 10 years , and roughly 60% of all ventures in need of external financing have reported difficulties in accessing financing for their investments.

Banking 70

Banking Research Finance Study 70

MishTalk

APRIL 16, 2014

The debt ended 2013 at 94% of GDP. In 2013, the Ministries have triggered the eventual disbursement of staff salaries by 7.5%. Also the salaries of senior management have risen in 2013. Adding up all the costs of the central administration staff, we see that in 2013 an increase of 0.8% billion, 5.8% was recorded.

Government 74

Government Finance Financial Management 74

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Finance Risk. Areas like finance, accounting, communications, HR and marketing. The Top 25 Consultants (2013)(#17). 2013 Management Consulting Salaries – from Undergraduate and MBA to Interns and more. There are 6 specialty areas of Business Consulting: Business Strategy. Information Technology. IBM GBS CULTURE.

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IBM GBS Interviews Consulting Case Interview 203

MishTalk

OCTOBER 2, 2013

percent at the end of 2013, higher than previously forecast, according to details of the government''s 2014 budget presented in parliament. Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy''s conservative government had forecast in its 2013 budget that the debt-to-GDP ratio would stand at 90.5 more than in 2013. compared to 2013.

Government 75

Government Finance Education Banking 75

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Despite this lack of focused attention toward development of leadership capabilities in trainees, evidence suggests that leadership quality affects patients, healthcare system outcomes, and finances alike. And several programs stand out as examples of how this can be done.

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Training Training Leadership Healthcare 132

MishTalk

MAY 14, 2014

A national survey released in March by the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu, China, found that households across the country had 66 percent of their assets in their homes, a figure that rises to 84 percent in Beijing. At best, China is entering a deflationary phase at a time of global fragility.

Real Estate 77

Real Estate Banking Construction Cash Flow 77

MishTalk

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Many thousands of Americans who lost their homes in the housing bust, but have since begun to rebuild their finances, are suddenly facing a new foreclosure nightmare: debt collectors are chasing them down for the money they still owe by freezing their bank accounts, garnishing their wages and seizing their assets.

Finance 75

Finance Banking Financial Report 75

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2016

They had a fuller discussion in 2013–2014 — around the time when media reports of the illicit behavior first surfaced. Stumpf testified that he personally became aware in 2013 when, after two years of ineffective solutions within the business unit, the volume of fake accounts was still increasing.

Leadership 129

Leadership Banking Ethics Culture 129

Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2017

So four years ago, when I was CEO of GE Capital Retail Finance and tapped to lead a mega change initiative — splitting off our unit into a new, publicly traded company, Synchrony Financial — I’ll admit I viewed it as a huge challenge. We have hired more than 5,000 new employees since beginning the effort in late 2013.)

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Management Change Management Culture Leadership 130

MishTalk

DECEMBER 7, 2014

See Enter the Carpetbaggers: Ukraine''s New Finance Minister a US Citizen, New Economy Minister from Lithuania ). Ukraine’s central bank reported foreign-currency reserves at their lowest for almost a decade, raising pressure on the West to provide more financing to the country being squeezed by Russia. per-US$ to 15.34-per-US$.

Banking 75

Banking Finance Government Report 75

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 8, 2018

We’ve been teaching and testing Microsoft Excel for a decade, and a survey of several hundred office staff we ran suggests we spend more than 10% of our working lives spreadsheeting , and for those working in research and development or finance, it’s more like 30%, or 2.5 hours a day. Flash Fill (30 minutes to learn).

Data 133

Data Productivity Tools Finance 133

MishTalk

MAY 28, 2014

The French government faces a 14bn-euro black hole in its public finances after overestimating tax income for the last financial year. The Court of Auditors said receipts from all three taxes amounted to an extra 16bn euros in 2013. That was a little more than half the government''s forecast of 30bn euros of extra tax income.

Government 69

Government Finance Trends Groups 69

Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 4, 2011

FTI offers services in 5 main practice areas: Corporate Finance/Restructuring, Economic Consulting, Forensic and Litigation Consulting, Strategic Communications, and Technology. Navigant’s experts have backgrounds in economics, accounting, finance and public policy. Copyright © 2013 Tom Spencer. Tel: +852 3768 4500.

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Consulting Intellectual Property Engineering Real Estate 94

Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

The firm advises government divisions, law firms, and major global corporations on governmental regulation (like anti-trust rulings), public policy implications, public, competitive forces, and private financing. Size: 515 (2013). KEY STATS FOR NERA ECONOMIC CONSULTING. . Website : www.nera.com. Headquarters: New York, NY.

NERA Economic Consulting 147

NERA Economic Consulting Interviews Oliver Wyman Consulting 147

MishTalk

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Comment: Andrew Harker , Senior Economist at Markit and author of the Flash France PMI® , said: “The last flash PMI readings for 2013 paint a worrying picture on the health of the French economy. Unless the last 15% is an amazing set of numbers, France''s Finance Minister, Pierre Moscovici, is off his rocker.

Finance 61

Finance Data Survey Report 61

MishTalk

APRIL 6, 2014

The remaining 67,755,000, was the deficit had to be financed by increasing debt. Despite the widespread belief in our society that public spending is silhouetted sharply, the fact is that in 2013 slightly increased by 0.2% This stood at the end of year to 960,640 million, 93.9% recall that in 2007 the debt was 36.2%

Government 69

Government Finance Banking Financial 69

MishTalk

OCTOBER 23, 2014

In 2012, the average payment of listed non-financial corporations was 191 days, while in 2013 totaled 184, down 4%. Their average payment reached the 288 days in 2013, while in 2012 exceeded 300. Their average payment reached the 288 days in 2013, while in 2012 exceeded 300. Construction and real estate had a 10% improvement.

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Real Estate Company Construction Finance 59

MishTalk

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

percent, moved in the 12 months ending March 2013. Finance has an interesting chart that shows More Young Adults Stay Put. October 2013 : Workforce, Population, Jobs by Age-Group Percentage Employment Here is a chart courtesy of Tim Wallace from the last link above. Among adults ages 25-29, just 4.9 million, or 23.3

Groups 78

Groups Finance Education Marketing 78

Management Consulted

JANUARY 20, 2014

Two new partnerships mark the forward movement of the firm – in July 2013, Bearing Point opened a new office in Shanghai, China and in November 2013, Bearing Point and Cumbria Financial Services Consulting agreed to a Strategic Consulting Alliance. This leadership has brought much better stability and continuity to the business.

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BearingPoint Interviews Oliver Wyman Capgemini 139

MishTalk

AUGUST 27, 2013

But recall what Brazil''s finance minister said on March 3, 2012 in a currency war declaration on the US: " When the real appreciates, it reduces our competitiveness. In a flash forward to August 25, 2013 we see Brazil Plans $60 Billion Currency Intervention Scheme; Indonesia Abandons Intervention, Adopts Other Measures.

Apparel 75

Apparel Finance Hotels Enterprise 75

Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

Here are three examples of pessimistic explanations for positive outcomes: Praise from a client: “The client was happy with the finance report [specific] that the team [non-personal] submitted on this project [temporary]. Copyright © 2013 Tom Spencer. Dave had some great insights.” ” [non-personal].

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Consulting Sports Case Interview Energy 107