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New Home Sales "Better, Not Strong", and Regionally Very Uneven: US +6.7%, Midwest +47.4%, Northeast -26.7%

MishTalk

The Census Bureau Residential Home Sales report shows Sales of new single-family houses in April 2014 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 433,000. Sales are 6.4 months at the current rate of sales. 2014 January (r) 457 30 51 256 120 5.0 2014 January (r) 457 30 51 256 120 5.0 Supply is 5.3

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More Universities Need to Teach Sales

Harvard Business

For decades, Sales and Academia remained worlds apart and the business world did fine. But Sales is changing, Academia is out of touch, and this is bad for business and the academy. Sales was traditionally seen as a form of service work, with an emphasis primarily on developing moral character.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

Satya Nadella, for instance, joined Microsoft in 1992 and worked his way up to running its cloud computing effort, building that business unit into a viable new growth platform before becoming CEO, in 2014. We always urge you to read the methodology carefully. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen.

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A Refresher on Discovery-Driven Planning

Harvard Business

I talked with Rita McGrath, a professor at Columbia Business School, who together with Ian MacMillan, of the University of Pennsylvania’s business school, developed this classic methodology for planning innovation. How many sales do they have to close and in what time period? Where Did Discovery-Driven Planning Originate?

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The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies, 2016

Harvard Business

Methodology. This year’s index builds on the methodology of last year’s. Ryanair did this with its “Always Getting Better” program in 2014, scrapping unallocated seating and many hidden charges and reducing carry-on luggage restrictions. billion ($1.39 billion) in the year to end-March 2016.

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The Best Approach to Decision Making Combines Data and Managers’ Expertise

Harvard Business

.” Rather than reducing reliance on intuition, the advanced methodologies of big data require managers to use even more intuition to make sense of the growing number of outputs and recommendations being generated by data models. Besides increasing transparency, combining domain expertise and data also increases predictive accuracy.

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Does Customer Prejudice Help Drive the Employment Gap Between White and Black Americans?

Harvard Business

Looking at 2014 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics , white Americans were 10% more likely to be employed than African-Americans were. A great deal of research — using methodologies such as resume studies and other models — has found that employer discrimination and prejudice plays a large role in creating this gap.

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