Uncategorized Archives - Page 3 of 10

23 Oct 2009

Vendor Performance in the Economic Recovery: 5 Lessons

Betty tried to place an order with her long-standing vendor, but got bad news: the vendor could not deliver within her timeline. She had a firm commitment to her customers, so she had to scramble …

15 Oct 2009

Charts: Another Guy Who Loves Them

Even Public Broadcasting has noticed my love of charts, saying Perhaps the most noticeable feature on the site is its fluent use of colorful charts; Conerly uses them to help explain the data that he …

30 Sep 2009

Management of Sales Effort in Economic Recession and Recovery

The way you are managing your sales staff my cost you market share in the recovery. There are two basic ways to evaluate sales representatives: results or effort. Using results makes sense for experienced sales …

25 Sep 2009

What Economics Majors Should Know About Graduate School

This post is for college students who are interested in economics and thinking about graduate school. There's an article aimed at the academic economics profession that you will find insightful. Dave Collander and KimMarie McGoldrick …

31 Jul 2009

The Composition of the Economy: It’s Not What You Think

Yesterday I heard a doom and gloom outlook from a businessman whose attitude derived the weak commercial real estate market. I regularly hear from residential real estate brokers and developers that the economy is terrible, …

28 Jul 2009

Bailout! A New Merle Hazard Song

My day is always happy when Merle Hazard releases a new song. (Hat tip to Calculated Risk.) Here’s his latest, Bailout: You can find more at www.MerleHazard.com. My favorite is “Inflation or Deflation.”

22 Jul 2009

Economy: Step Onto My Cloud

Just installed a cool little Firefox application called Cloudlet. Here's what happened when I googled myself: Question: if you know me or my work, what other tags should Google have found? Leave a comment.

17 Jul 2009

Housing Starts Still Weak, Despite the Headlines

These guys who write newspaper headlines are getting me down. Here's the Wall Street Journal's online head: "Housing Starts Jumped in June." Bloomberg proclaims: "Housing Starts in U.S. Unexpectedly Climb to Highest Level in Seven …

4 Jul 2009

America The Beautiful: Ray Charles

The most beautiful music of the day (HT to Mark Perry at Carpe Diem)

19 May 2009

Wolfram Alpha: Great News for Information Junkies

If you, like me, love to find cool facts, you absolutely need to know about Wolfram Alpha. As an example type in "zip code" followed by your zip code.

29 Apr 2009

Strategic Planning in the Recession: Guidelines for Corporate Executives

It's an awful time to do strategic planning, but the planning MUST go forward. The time is awful because of the uncertainty. Here are some suggestions for planning processes that begin in mid-2009: Make your …

27 Apr 2009

Long-Run Investment Returnes

Capital Spectator has the latest long run investment returns and risk measures here. But don't be in a hurry: when you're calculating averages from 1825 or even 1926, another day or two won't make a …