Word: marketization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There are three major factors to consider when strategizing for global growth in the spring semester course market," CSMG's founding partner, Benedict Arnold '97, explained to me as he unfolded several 20 by 24-inch bar graphs onto an easel in my bedroom for a colorful client presentation. "Costs, customers and competitors. This seminar on early Hebrew literature might look interesting, for example, but when we perform a cost-benefit analysis, we see that the amount of boredom actually increases as the course progresses, while your projected grade decreases. The course's consumer base is suspiciously small, so before...
Staff consultant Joseph McNamara '96 suggested that I prioritize my global goals. "In a globally competitive market, you need to think broadly about the sheer range of factors that will affect your efficiency," he consulted me. "A key strategic variable in this case could be the exchange rate of the Swedish kroner." I asked him to explain. "This is a different world," he informed me, "a world that requires us management consultants to operate in a genuinely border-less fashion. We must be able to embed these programs into a complex, sustained, multi-year effort to change the way your...
...faced with an evening in which I have nothing to do. I could, of course, read for my newly-chosen Economics courses. Or I could use my time to cover my roommate's entire desk with toothpaste. As a globally competitive client, I am not intimidated by this emerging market of available time. No, I am challenged by the prospect of expanding my personal business. But how to do it? It was a case for McFlimsy and Company...
...seem to have outlined a very appealing course with a catchy title and fun material. Did you intend to have a strong market appeal? Is this a selling strategy...
...conservation sometimes demands the culling of elephants," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell, "there's a fear that once you rekindle trading in ivory, you create an incentive for poachers." During the '80s, Africa lost half of its elephant population to poachers supplying ivory traders in Asia. The ivory market has been effectively starved by the 1989 U.N. ban -- but 60 tons of tusks may be just the aperitif needed to whet its appetite...