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Do The Math: COVID Shows How Easily The Healthcare System Is Overwhelmed

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Rigorous Math Vs. Calendar Gazing. In addition, he said, hospitals also need to analyze and account for variables in supply and demand. “If So the math to match supply and demand has to be very, very rigorous. Each asset had its supply-demand math done perfectly. Uberizing Healthcare.

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Beyond Unattended Retail, There’s Unattended Payments

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There is no longer much tolerance, or enthusiasm, on the part of consumers for digging into one’s pocket to find money or a payment card, or doing the mental math (well, OK, a smartphone has a calculator) to figure out how much to tip a driver. Nowadays, one’s card is on file with the ride-hailing service. The Partnership Model.

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Wall Street Journal ) • From Math Camp to Handcuffs: FTX’s Downfall Was an Arc of Brotherhood and Betrayal : Gary Wang and Sam Bankman-Fried are offering dueling accounts of the FTX fiasco and of who’s ultimately to blame. January retail surge: finding the signal in the noise Source: BofA Sign up for our reads-only mailing list here.

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Holding Onto Your Marketing Budget in a Downturn

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Make sure you have the right math and language to explain results driven by direct and indirect marketing spend. As much as possible, CMOs must help their C-suite colleagues understand the math of marketing activities holistically and results throughout the full funnel. Often this comes down to accountability and silos.

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What Walmart’s Resurgence Means For Retail And The “Pays”

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He didn’t think much of math and science — rather unusual given his choice of a profession that uses complicated math formulas to communicate. Accomplished public intellectual and post-Keynesian economist John Kenneth Galbraith was well-known for four things. His economic principles were what inspired President Lyndon B.

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The December Doldrums: Retail Forecast Between Thanksgiving And Christmas

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The long weekend after Thanksgiving is the media darling, with brand-name recognition for three out of the four days: Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday (plus Giving Tuesday, to give a full account of where consumer dollars might be going during the final week of November). That’s one way to look at it.

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Deliverr Vying To Become ‘Uber’ Of Ground Shipping In eCommerce

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Krakaris saw a particular opportunity in serving marketplaces beyond Amazon through retailers like Walmart, eBay and Jet. Then, Krakaris does some math on the backend to find out where merchants should send their products. To use the platform, merchants connect their different sales channels and import their products.