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Finance
Developing Markets Aren’t Just About Opportunity
Robert Hocking
December 19, 2013
While Stephen Elop was describing the culture of a Finnish telecom company he could easily have been referring to many western retail organizations today, specifically ...
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Darkness at Dawn
Paco Underhill
December 16, 2013
The closer you get to the Equator, the more dawn and dusk become switches rather than transitions. It’s dark, it’s light. I’ve learned as a ...
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The $2 Trillion American Rip-Off
Judith Russell
October 29, 2013
There’s a growing disparity in the way some economic data have moved since the recession. On the one hand we have employment and income figures, ...
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The Harder They Fall
Len Lewis
October 1, 2013
Consumers love celebrities and are more than willing to fork over billions of dollars for things they endorse. But do you want them to land ...
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Unintended Consequences: The Price Race to the Bottom
David Merrefield
September 10, 2013
Conventional supermarket retailers can’t catch a break — even sometimes. Conventional operators — Kroger, Safeway and the like — face a vast array of competition ...
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Elastic Pricing: Beyond Dynamic
Greg Petro
September 3, 2013
Hardly a day goes by without an article or discussion about “dynamic pricing.” By now, we all know that dynamic pricing refers to the ability ...
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What’s Wrong With This Employment Picture?
Judith Russell
June 13, 2013
Last week’s employment data looked pretty rosy. The economy added 175,000 new jobs in May, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than many ...
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Caracas Lost Dreams
Paco Underhill
May 20, 2013
I noted more than a few binoculars focused this morning on the military airfield outside my Caracas hotel. It’s likely they were searching the ground ...
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