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by mathattack 13y ago
It does seem like the market is waiting for someone to replace Blackberry. I'm with you on splitting the enterprise cash cow from the rest of the business.
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by mathattack 13y ago
Good point. I was thinking it was rumors getting out because of the gradual nature of the move, but I think that you're right. Traders were slow to put orders back into the market, which created a gradual drift up, rather than an ins
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by mathattack 13y ago
Yes. Independent of your political stance, shouldn't Bush have groomed a few successors? You can see Obama's failure to groom the next generation when the top two candidates predate him by 20 years. NYC's mayor took a thir
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by mathattack 13y ago
Was that more than his total shareholder return over the past 13 years?
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by mathattack 13y ago
I would like someone to dig into which was greater, the shareholder return during his 13 years as CEO, or the shareholder return when he announced his retirement.
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by mathattack 13y ago
There are lots of stories of brokerage firms buckling under the paperwork. Outsiders like Ross Perot and Warren Buffett were brought in to help manage some of the messes. One of the problems of the MBS/Foreclosure crisis is tracking
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by mathattack 13y ago
This seems so obvious that I wonder why it wasn't done before. Well done!
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by mathattack 13y ago
"Our new organization, which is centered on functions and engineering areas, is right for the opportunities and challenges ahead." I don't see customers in there. Perhaps being organized with an internal focus is part of the
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by mathattack 13y ago
If he really knew how to make money the stock would have performed better. Perhaps he knew how to make money in some industries, and lose money in others.
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by mathattack 13y ago
Interesting. I see IBM is less than 1 too. Facebook has a 3.29, LinkedIn is 1.81, Accenture is 1.4 and SAP is 1.5. Do you think this is based on revenue models? Size? The amount of cash on hand? Brand strength? Likelihood of needing to
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by mathattack 13y ago
"While many called for his ouster for many years, I never saw a single leader emerge at Microsoft who could fill his shoes or the needs of this lofty position. Looking at the available options today, I still don't." This in a
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by mathattack 13y ago
Yes - Lou Gerstner was a very rare bird as a CEO. He was a consultant who became a great executive, then a CEO, then led a transformation the likes of which he'd advised on as a consultant. What's needed is of that order of magni
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by mathattack 13y ago
Did you capture the speech where he's ranting and raving to motivate the troops?
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by mathattack 13y ago
You are correct in your definition. I thought that's how I explained it. Beta is volatility relative to the entire market. That's why I said "less volatile to market conditions than an index fund" Basically if the m
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by mathattack 13y ago
There's a gender bias question here, and a value of language learning question. My take on the languages side - they are enormously valuable if you bring something else to the table. If all you can do is speak 4 languages, it's n
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by mathattack 13y ago
Overconfidence bias is very real. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overconfidence_effect Try asking people to guess a bunch of #s with 90% confidence intervals and see how often they are wrong. (Examples: Population of t
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to Retire in 12 Months(blogs.wsj.com)
19 points by mathattack 13y ago|2 comments
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by mathattack 13y ago
Huge news! Let's see what happens to the stock today. It edged up a little at the end of the day, suggesting that perhaps news was getting out. It's up 8% in premarket trading. [1] One interesting thing to note from that chart
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by mathattack 13y ago
Seems like a mobile trailer, though, right? You wind up living in a trailer park?
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by mathattack 13y ago
In the medium and long term, employee cost is less important than missing out on the absolutely best employees and mentors. The work of great employees scale, and the great employees willing to join startups tend to flock towards cities li
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Guidelines for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles at Burning Man(blog.burningman.com)
2 points by mathattack 13y ago|1 comments
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by mathattack 13y ago
I would argue that having your own company just shifts the control from your boss to your customers. The one difference is you now have more control over resources.
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by mathattack 13y ago
Never too old, and best to wait until you're ready. Just like not everyone is ready to do a start-up today, not everyone is ready for kids today. Better to be mentally and financially prepared. But if you do an even halfway decent j
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by mathattack 13y ago
Point taken. :-) Mine is down too.
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by mathattack 13y ago
When you come from the country club life (first paragraph) it is indeed mediocre. I'll toss in the counterpoint that having kids that are thrilled to see you, even if you live in a tiny apartment, is anything but mediocre. The OP seems
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by mathattack 13y ago
Reading the title my first thought is, "You should be." Reading the first paragraph I think, "Here's a spoiled brat complaining" When I read, "We move higher, we fly faster, we get meaner." I start to lose
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by mathattack 13y ago
A big irony is that people are pulling strings to get their kids these types of internships. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/21/us-banks-hiring-id...
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SEC's JPMorgan probe threatens cozy tradition of "client hires"(reuters.com)
1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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by mathattack 13y ago
Excel actually isn't that bad for managing projects. Does saying that make me old, or a skeptic? Digging deeper into this... I would like to see some data on where grads go. Having spent time in Japan, my intuition was a disproporti
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Yahoo beats Google in traffic for first time since 2011(money.cnn.com)
7 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments

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