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The “Smart Society” of the Future Doesn’t Look Like Science Fiction

Harvard Business

The market for smart technologies is predicted to be worth up to $1.6 To set an aspirational but realistic target, we created a benchmark that combines the best attributes of these advanced digital nations. The potential for technologies to enable smart societies is rising. trillion by 2020, and $3.5 trillion by 2026.

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Building a Digital Technology Foundation in Insurance

BCG

These undertakings include digitizing the customer experience, building digital offerings and business models, and constructing in-house digital capabilities. And we analyzed the main IT trends on the basis of four years of architecture benchmarking with top insurers in the German market.

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WalMart Margins Set to Plunge? Will Rest of Retail Follow? What About Jobs?

MishTalk

Retail sales reports on Wednesday have me thinking about the strength of the economy, commercial construction, jobs, and profit margins. The retailer will open 180-200 of its small format stores, called Neighborhood Markets, in the next fiscal year through January 2016, Greg Foran, head of the U.S. The Wall Street Journal reports U.S.

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Singapore Set for Icelandic-Style Property Bubble Meltdown; Hype or Reality?

MishTalk

percent even as the country’s red hot construction sector has been attracting overseas workers, and a growing number of wealthy citizens are hiring domestic helpers from neighboring countries like the Philippines and Indonesia. Singapore’s unemployment rate is a mere 1.8 Fed Funds Rate for the purpose of minimizing large swings in the U.S.

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Asset Management – Client Segmentation (Part 3 of 4)

Tom Spencer

Large mutual funds have strong relationships with banks, where they are able to pay a trailer fee to bank investment advisors to market their product. For passive investing, Blackrock and Vanguard are able to get costs very low due to their scale and skill in replicating a benchmark index.

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How to Evaluate, Accept, Reject, or Negotiate a Job Offer

Harvard Business

Even when the money on offer is enough to live on, you need to figure out if it’s an amount worthy of your knowledge and skills and whether it’s in line with the local market. “Also, look at what you will be doing, what success looks like, and what benchmarks you’ll be judged against,” he says.

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Research: Index Funds Are Fueling Out-of-Whack CEO Pay Packages

Harvard Business

On average, common ownership concentration has almost doubled in the last 20 years in the construction, manufacturing, finance, and services sectors. market capitalization ) and 500 additional public companies. Certainly, people have benefited from the low-cost, diversified exposure to the stock market that large asset managers offer.