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”. Business Strategy. Graduate Consulting Group. Categories. Select Category. Case Interviews.

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Harvard Business

MAY 1, 2017

Bain & Company’s Macro Trends Group carefully analyzed the global balance sheet and found that the world is awash in money. Global capital balances more than doubled between 1990 and 2010 — from $220 trillion (about 6.5 Bain recently completed research on workforce productivity. times global GDP).

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Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2018

In November, United States’ crude oil production exceeded 10 million barrels per day for the first time since 1970, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). oil production, up from a mere 10% just seven years ago in 2011. hbr staff/bettmann/Getty Images. Analysts have predicted that U.S.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

As a result, USAA outperforms most competitors in the number of products held by its customers. Managers wanting to grow share of wallet and raise the productivity of their cross-selling efforts may have to confront longstanding practices that stand in the way. Take a balance-sheet view. Just get started.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

After all, if you’re trying to sell a product or strategy, you need to be able to demonstrate that it is both practical and high margin. Here are some strategies to improve your financial intelligence. See More Videos > See More Videos > Tackle the balance sheet. Overcome your fears. Go it alone.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 9, 2020

I see the most product and program success when the various teams create transparency between them, the middle of the continuum. That's the full-product transparency. That's because the managers don't explain: Why this product. Why this product now, as opposed to any of the other work we could do.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Current Liabilities Cash Much Smaller Than You Think I don't often dive into balance sheets, but did so after reading a Market-Watch opinion by Brett Arends. Apple may face even more pressure to do something productive with its $200 billion war chest instead of letting it collect dust in Ireland and other tax havens. "

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 17, 2014

This is not necessarily a problem if the decline was expected because a business is sustained from cashflow, not profit, and long term growth can be pursued through capital appreciation, which shows up on the balance sheet and not on the profit and loss statement. There are lots of ways to do this, including by: Product.

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2017

They grow faster, make more money, and are more valued than companies organized around products and services. A production process turns inputs into outputs and distributes them through a tightly controlled supply chain. Value is in the products and services themselves. We normally think of people as something to be managed.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2017

That strengthened investment banks’ balance sheets by forcing them to scale back and to change the nature of the risks they take. As a result, their balance sheets are half as large on a risk-adjusted basis, and the capital they hold against trading positions has doubled over the past decade, our research shows.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

As the electric power industry shifts from a model where individual local utilities have a monopoly on electricity provision in a region to a much more dynamic market, these prosumers will be able to make and sell a variety of obscure new products and services like frequency regulation. California, Texas, and most of the U.S.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 7, 2023

I was assigned to a typical strategy engagement – should client X selling product Y increase sales in market Z? However, we struggled to calculate profitability over time, as the client had multiple kinds of products and used various procurement methods. When we asked the client to provide the needed data, they ghosted us.

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Harvard Business

MAY 28, 2018

For its part, Nikon focused on cost optimization opportunities and balance sheet management when communicating to value-oriented investors and on long-term structural changes when communicating to growth-oriented investors. Thanks to this experience, strategy making at Nikon today has become a process of co-creation with investors.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 14, 2019

In Part 1 , I wrote about how “Agile” is not a silver bullet and is not right for every team and every product. Not person-based optimization, but optimization for the products/services that the organization needs. They all say something like this: We need resilience in product development and delivery. That's wrong.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Bank’s Income Statement It’s important to note that banks have diverse product offerings and client types, and the reporting of business lines such as retail banking, wholesale banking, and wealth management can vary between different banks. Jason Oh is a Senior Associate at Strategy& with a focus on financial services.

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Harvard Business

MAY 9, 2018

Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Several companies we studied show the value of programmatic M&A strategies. Walter Thompson Company for $566 million in 1987 and Ogilvy for $864 million in 1989 — big acquisitions that stretched the company’s balance sheet. Strength of productivity program.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 29, 2022

Human resource teams are critical to the growth of a company since employees typically represent both the biggest operating expense and largest off-balance sheet asset for most businesses. This could include compensation strategy, change of leadership, employee concerns, and a plethora of other projects.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 28, 2014

On January 15, Reuters reported China''s ICBC says won''t compensate investors in troubled shadow bank product. Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the world''s largest bank by assets, said on Thursday that it has no plans to use its own money to repay investors in a troubled off-balance-sheet investment product that it helped to market."

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Imports among the world’s 20 largest economies have fallen as a share of their gross domestic product for four consecutive years. In 2015, Global Trade Alert, an independent trade-monitoring group, cited at least 644 discriminatory trade measures imposed by the G20 economies with the U.S. at the forefront.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 26, 2013

It is continuing to expand at twice the rate of nominal, or money, gross domestic product, and according to official data has pushed the credit to GDP ratio up to 215 per cent in 2013, and most likely more. But it is hard not to conclude that the authorities remain conflicted.

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MishTalk

JULY 11, 2014

Historical evidence shows that this rarely happens following a balance sheet recession. Productivity growth in advanced economies has been on a declining trend since well before the onset of the financial crisis, and the workforce is already shrinking in several countries as the population ages.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2017

Proponents of downsizing argue that it is an effective strategy, with benefits such as increased performance and sales. Detractors, on the other hand, point to negative consequences including performance and productivity declines, decreases in customer satisfaction, and adverse effects on remaining employees, such as increased stress.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

Wealth Management – wealth management is heavily favored today in bank strategy due to low capital requirements – the business model was covered in the series on Asset Management. Various other products. Credit card debt in Canada comes with steep interest rates and serves as a profitable product for banks. Non-interest Income.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2017

In such a system, employers protect workers from many of the vagaries of market forces; they take a longer-term perspective on firm performance, and favor corporate strategies that necessitate a stable, well-trained, and loyal workforce. Since that time, however, the U.S. has transitioned to a market-oriented system of employment.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

It it is worth noting just how aggressive the BoJ has become with the central bank balance sheet already at around 55% of GDP and rapidly heading higher still! A key secondary problem is productivity issues between member states.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 25, 2013

Any model that predicts China’s future GDP growth must include, if it is to be valid, a variable that reflects estimates of the amount of hidden losses buried in the banks’ balance sheets. In theory these conditions can be counterbalanced by an explosion in productivity unleashed by the reforms.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 12, 2016

Most of these companies are private and don’t publish their balance sheets. They vary in export orientation, organizational structure, and ownership, but their highly specialized nature has led many analysts to say they’re all following a niche strategy. I believe the model is much more than a niche strategy.

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Harvard Business

JULY 15, 2016

No strategy is static. While Kodak stagnated and ultimately stumbled, Fuji aggressively explored new opportunities, creating products adjacent to its film business, such as magnetic tape optics and videotape, and branching into copiers and office automation, notably through a joint venture with Xerox. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 16, 2017

To support a change in strategy from efficiency-driven to innovation-driven growth, the company acquired another company to be its innovation engine. To restore its balance sheet, it had to sell half the business. After three years the company wrote off three times the acquisition cost. Shortcomings in Self-Governance.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 26, 2014

In either case they reduce consumption demand relative to production. If together these two effects increase demand faster than lower rates increase production (as businesses take advantage of cheaper financing to expand production facilities), there is likely to be upward pressure on prices. The reason has to do with debt.

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MishTalk

JULY 16, 2014

Readers of our letters are familiar with our long-standing assessment that the cause of slower growth is the overly indebted economy with too much non-productive debt. Rather than repairing its balance sheet by reducing debt, the U.S. economy is starting to increase its leverage. Total debt rose to 349.3%

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MishTalk

JANUARY 8, 2014

The projected improvement in economic activity was expected to be supported by highly accommodative monetary policy, diminished fiscal policy restraint, and a pickup in global economic growth, as well as a further easing of credit conditions and continued improvements in household balance sheets.

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LSA Global

MAY 9, 2019

We believe that employees need to better understand the key factors that affect a company’s operations and financial strength to improve decision-making and strategy execution. How can you expect to pitch a new strategy or product if you are unable to articulate its potential revenue, costs, and return on investment? Cash flow.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2017

GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment through the internet of things and analytical software with a suite of products called Predix Cloud. But first they need to get management of a company to change the existing strategy. Andreessen’s article helped accelerate the company’s digital transformation.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 20, 2023

Getting a Sales Meeting with an Executive is Just the First Step Once you’ve opened the door to a sales meeting with an executive meeting, know that executive buyers expect a much broader, more strategic focus than those prove-yourself meetings with lower-tiered contacts who want to discuss product features, benefits, and costs.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 26, 2015

Ford also said that it was unable to maintain normal production in Venezuela with the availability of vehicle parts constrained. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.' dollar as quoted by the website dolartoday.com, it would only receive about $25 million.

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MishTalk

MARCH 17, 2014

This model rests on an understanding of how distortions in the savings rates of different countries have driven the great trade and balance-sheet distortions with which we are wrestling today, just as they have in most previous global crises, including those of the 1870s, the 1930s, and the 1970s. It does so in two ways.

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