Tim Iacono submits: Wednesday, DataQuick released the Southern California real estate sales data for the month of June and, once again, President Marshall Prentice was nowhere to be found. In fact, Dataquick has apparently hired a new president in one John Walsh, who has taken over the duty...
Chris Marshall submits: GE GE is due to announce its second quarter results in the next few weeks; so what is the outlook for GE? In the first quarter, GE had a nightmare set of figures, whereby the only division doing well was Infrastructure. Discounting the...
Marshall & Ilsley MI is expected to report Q2 earnings before market open on Wednesday, July 16, with a conference call scheduled for noon ET. Guidance Analysts are looking for EPS of ($1.56) on revenue of $624.08M. The consensus range for EPS is ($1.63) to ($1.42), while the consensus range...
Chris Marshall submits: Earlier this week, Lehman Brothers LEH announced plans for its restructuring, which includes issuing 143 million shares of common stock at $28.00 to raise $4 billion, along with the raising of $2 billion of preference shares. Now, the obvious question is: “Who will buy these shares at...
Great ideas add value to discussion, but when they come from managers, Marshall Goldsmith says, they can add too much value -- stifling the creativity and enthusiasm of the very people you need to execute the idea. Before you pitch your ideas -- or your improvements on an employee's ideas...
Young professionals smile at the thought of opportunities likely to open up for them as a wide swath of the workforce retires in the next decade. Conventional wisdom says companies will be hard-hit as the baby boomer generation vacates key management positions to spend more time on the fairway, but...
It's always nice to see an old friend succeed, especially when he does so by turning conventional wisdom on its head. And that's exactly what Josh Micah Marshall did last week by winning a prestigious George Polk Award for his Talking Points Memo blog site TPM. Eight...
Executive coach Goldsmith advises to IdeaCast listeners on their biggest job challenges, including the changing roles of business leaders are changing, managing knowledge workers, and influencing up. Featured Guest: Marshall Goldsmith, author of the "Ask the Coach" blog on HarvardBusiness.org and the book What Got You Here...
This paper gives a review of economic studies of life insurance and theory of consumers. Marshall and fisher theories are explained in this paper.One hardly might be reminded that the consumer who makes plans for the future one way or another, takes account of the fact that how long he...
Collusion among bidders in auctions is a serious concern for those interested in designing allocation procedures to allocate public assets whether the goal of the process is efficiency or revenue maximization. In either case, bidders acting collusively can seriously impair an auctioneer's ability to accomplish their goal. There have been...
The article describes that the key to increasing the "Share of Customer" and maximizing "Lifetime Value" lies in continually strengthening the bond between the company and its customer. It should come as no surprise to anyone that good communication plays a major role in this bonding process. An organized and...
Mathew Ingram submits: Matt Marshall over at VentureBeat says he has it on good authority that Microsoft MSFT is planning to make an offer for Powerset, the “semantic search” startup that has been in stealth mode for quite awhile now, popping up only long enough for a party or...
As most managers know, mediocre and poor employees take up most of your time. Your great performers -- well it's easy to let them do their thing without much guidance. A boat on a steady heading doesn't need much work at the helm. Or does it? A...
The observed predictability of excess returns in equity and foreign exchange markets has largely been attributed to the presence of time varying risk premiums in these markets. In this paper, we evaluate excess asset returns in equity and foreign exchange markets by combining generalized preferences to a heteroscedastic driving process...
Condor Options submits: The Striking Price column in this weekend’s Barron’s features John Marshall from Goldman, who suggests an “opportunity to buy volatility” in the S&P Materials sector via the tracking ETF XLB. He makes the bearish case for XLB, arguing: 1) that the materials sector is particularly vulnerable to...
Jennifer and Jeremy Marshall had what it takes to launch their seafood restaurant, Aquagrill - Jeremy spent 15 years honing his culinary skills in high-quality, well-known restaurants across New York City. Jennifer worked as the wine steward at Windows of the World, the top-floor restaurant at the World Trade Center....
