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Author Interview: “The 8 Essential Skills for Supervisors and.

Persuasive Powerhouse

Readers of this post are entitled to a 10% discount off the cover price if they contact Paul at PaulK@MidwGroup.com. Grossman : September 2, 2010 at 10:40 am Excellent. Sachin: September 5, 2010 at 4:38 am Excellent interview and great insight on the book. What are the 8 skills? I look forward to reading it.

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Rising Above the Stage Show

Chris Brady

For example, when gasoline prices skyrocketed a few years ago we heard from one side of the red-white-and-blue stage show that it was because Americans were wasteful and driving gas-guzzling SUVs. Of course, these prices quickly find their way to the end customer, the little guy, who is paying more for everything and can't figure out why.

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Whole Foods Is Becoming Amazon’s Brick-and-Mortar Pricing Lab

Harvard Business Review

Amazon’s relentless price testing in the online world anchors its competitive advantage. Its unrivaled base of knowledge allows it to use price as a communications tool, a recruiting tool, a psychological weapon, and a value driver in ways that transcend the basic mechanics of supply and demand and profit and loss.

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How Chinese Subsidies Changed the World

Harvard Business Review

This news followed the bankruptcy in March of Wuxi Suntech , the main operating subsidiary of the world''s largest maker of solar panels, after it defaulted on a $541 million bond payment. A surge in exports of Chinese panels depressed world prices by 75%. billion in 2010. Chinese paper sells at a substantial discount to U.S.

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In FCC's Report on Wireless Competition, an Agenda?

Harvard Business Review

All economists recognize that competitive analysis is all about customers; if firms exercise market power, customers suffer through higher prices and foreclosed entry of new competitors. To answer the question of how prices would be affected, it needed only to look at existing markets where one player operated but not the other.

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Barnes & Noble's Smart Strategy

Harvard Business Review

from the same period in 2010. The more basic black and white model has been praised for its size, weight, and ultra-intuitive operation. It was one of the first to discount bestsellers, publish its own titles, offer authors self-publishing options, create super-stores, and put coffee shops in its establishments.

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How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

A 2010 meta-analysis detailed many of the different issues that make divestiture so hard to evaluate consistently. ” When it comes to divestitures, bad economics usually get discounted in the transaction price. The second category is legacy factors from whose impact the business can only escape slowly.