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Merchants Gone Wild: The Surcharge Edition

PYMNTS

Since about mid-December of 2018, checking out in the stores here in Boston has become even more of a hassle. Never mind the people who start rummaging around in their purse or wallet to pull out their cards after stepping up to the checkout counter. Surcharging has been permitted Down Under since 2003. is nothing new.

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Killing Strategy: The Disruption Of Management Consulting

CB Insights

Before Bruce Doolin Henderson opened the doors of Boston Consulting Group on July 1, 1963, the concept of “competition” barely existed in American business culture, let alone the concept of strategy. Bain (whose partners actually coined the phrase “$1M framework”) would create its own “insight product” in 2003 with the Net Promoter Score.

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The Mother List of All Banking Books

Jeff For Banks

House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street 2009 William D. Overdrawn: The Bailout of American Savings 1990 David Rockefeller Rockefeller, David Memoirs 2003 Felix G. "Rusty" Big Bad Banks: How Greed and Ego Among the Big Shots in Banking and Government Created the Crisis that Wrecked Our Economy 2009 William D.

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