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Punch It! · 1Y ago

Brand Health: Get A Thermometer, Stick A Needle

In the previous post, 4 Sure-fire Ways To Screw Up Your Brand, we looked at ways a brand management strategy could go awry. In a continuation of this series, we will look at ways to mitigate brand risk and protect your brand’s mind share. Read the market pulse. Well, sounds clichéd but if there was
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Punch It! · 1Y ago

4 Sure-fire Ways To Screw Up Your Brand

Organizations today that believe in branding themselves do so with the notion that a branding dollar invested today cuts down incremental cost of sales tomorrow. This investment is intended to establish the brand firmly in the consumer’s mind and trigger top-of-mind recall. Often businesses go wrong
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Punch It! · 1Y ago

Communication in M&A Integration: 4 Things That Can Really Go Wrong

Communication is more often than not a checkbox in the vision documents of most merger deals. What this translates to is a whole set of checkboxes and to-do lists under that, that a few are tasked with implementing and fewer still comprehend why. The front lines especially, are usually the first to
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Punch It! · 2Y ago

One Degree Of Separation: Lehmann And After

Lehmann Brothers. Sep 15th 2008. The name and date synonymous with THE financial catastrophe of this century. The once-admired iconic investment banking firm and sanctum sanctorum or “garbha griha” of starry-eyed MBAs now stands a fragmented and forlorn shadow of its former self. The bankrupt bank h
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Punch It! · 2Y ago

High-Frequency Trading: The Ferrari Among Golf Carts

It’s like questioning the use of engine-assisted steering or “Power Steering” in automobiles. It’s like opposing the evolution of the pedestrian mobile phone of yesteryears into a phone, camera, FM/music player and credit card all rolled into one. It’s also like using a Ferrari as a golf cart and sa
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Punch It! · 2Y ago

Bharti-MTN Merger: The ‘Ham’Burger Deal

Okay. Take a hamburger, turn it inside-out.. burger sandwiched between the ham, add cheese on the outside, generous helping of mayo on the.. that’s right.. outside, bite off one half and chew for all you’re worth, spit it out, pop in the other half and yes, chew and spit it out, pop in the hapless-l
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Punch It! · 3Y ago

The Random-Walk vs Chartism Conundrum

The central dogma of the Random-Walk Theory is that successive price changes of a security in an efficient market are independent. The efficient market here pre-supposes instantly and publicly available historical data. So Random Walk implies short-run price-change independence or that short-run pri
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Punch It! · 3Y ago

Are stock markets leading indicators of government performance?

Even as I pen this, the UPA, the leading alliance in Indian politics would be plotting the contours of the aftermath of its orgasmic win in the world’s largest democratic exercise, the 2009 edition of the Lok Sabha parliamentary elections in India. For those unfamiliar with the nuances of government
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