You cant visit the states without a visit to the ball park.My friend was sitting behind me and he had one of those deep italian american accents, straight out of the godfather! What a melting pot!
For the record, the Red Socks beat the Minesota Twins 3 2!
Its 10 pm and i am just finishing my reading for tomorrow, we will do Reagan Economics as a case study and reflect on its outcomes, in the context of judging current policies.
A couple of quotes from Harvard Business School (HBS) Lecturers
what do you get if you take the h out of hbs....just bs, ......not bad!
The Willy Sutton rule in relation to analysing companies.
Willy was ofcourse a legendary American bank robber who robbed hundreds of banks in the 1920s, when finally caught, the police asked Willy why he robbed banks, his answer,
"That is where the money is."
We brushed up on costing systems and were reminded why a volume based cost system is called
"peanut butter costing".................. because you spread it over all products!
we looked a calculating sustainable growth rates in companies and measuring unused capacity as a costing measure to focus on such production opportunities.
Country of the day
Turkey, where real estate is apparently is very hot at present!
(cannot be as hot as Melbourne residential!
In marketing we heard about the brilliant marketing department that had carefully designed the answer to the wrong question!
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