PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2020

Stretch back through the decades and you’ll find any number of examples — Henry Ford’s mass-produced autos, and more recently the internet and mobile phones. It took about 15 years for 5 percent of retail sales to shift online, then another 10 to shift another 5 percent. Even more remarkable is that 5.1 Retail Done in Bits and Bytes.

Retail 73

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

iPhone sales may not quite be what they once were — as of last quarter they were less than 50 percent of Apple’s total sales for the first time in 12 years — but for the time being, they remain Apple’s flagship product and the center of its ecosystem. We’ll keep you posted as more data emerges throughout the day.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 10, 2023

From Alfred Sloan at General Motors to Jack Welch at General Electric to Steve Jobs at Apple, there is a history of CEOs being tagged as superstars (and indispensable to the organizations that they head), in successful companies.

Valuation 113

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

And so, we take their data, we put it in the plan, we present the plan. And so, they get a Dropbox, a shared folder so that they can upload data. I have two data managers that then walk them through in case they need extra help, hands-on support, clarification about what we need. And then we can’t get any data from them.

Planning 130

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

And how is it that you, what’s this car that’s in the parking lot, it’s got plates on it and a tag and it’s brand new. We have a credit score index that’s powered by Experian, as an example, their data from Experian. That is, my sport is auto racing, actually. You don’t do any dirty work.

Economics 57

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

HAMBURGER: So, my grandma, Nana Sophie, she lost her husband at a young age before I was born, and her husband ran an auto body shop. We had to do a for sale by owner because if we sold it using a broker, we would have been way underwater. Everything’s for sale. They were first generation immigrants. We sold our house.

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