For example, if you’re raising your prices because you want to improve the quality of your products, make that clear in your letter. Describe in detail how much better these products are going to be, so customers can be excited for them rather than upset about the price increase. If you...
The average sticker price for in-state public schools is about one-quarter what's charged by private colleges, U.S. News found. Sarah WoodSept. 26, 2024 What to Know About College Tuition Costs The cost of college might seem less expensive at state schools, but sticker prices can be ...
(since these multiple changes are linear, while fundamentals compound exponentially). multiple contraction that our stocks suffered over the last 21 months while fundamentals continued to compound, make current stock prices attractive for long-term investors, in our view. ...
In addition to the House’s weak public option, the deals the White House and Max Baucus made with the drug companies and the AMA will force Americans to pay even more. If, on the other hand, Medicare were allowed to negotiate lower drug prices, biotech drugs weren’t granted a twelve-...
The Refugee Act of 1980 answered the obvious need in post-Vietnam America for an updated immigration policy. The legislation amended the earlier Immigration and Nationality Act and the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act, raising the annual refugee cap from 17,400 to 50,000 and putting in place...
The pressure to get that improvement will come from the customers, themselves facing excruciating global competition. A manufacturer can be, doing a bang-up job of raising his own productivity. Furthermore, (36) the globalization of almost everything, service industries from finance (37) airlines...
(ML) and data analytics usage across the bank. Our 260 use cases span customer-facing businesses such as consumer and SME banking, and support functions including Legal and Compliance, and Human Resources. For example, DBS sends 45 million hyper-personalised nudges each month to customers across...
a new payments product for convenience stores to roll out this year. adopting stuzo pricing on loyalty for existing customers, effectively raising prices. developing a pos offering for convenience stores to be introduced at the end of the year. it was a busy first six months of the year with...
For JPMorgan Chase, all things being equal (which they are not), the new lower tax rates added $3.7 billion to net income. For the long term, we expect that some or eventually most of that increase will be erased as companies compete for customers on products, capabilities and prices. ...
Now we are raising the bar. With our new strategy, we have a goal to have a branch available to serve 50% of a state’s population within an acceptable driving distance, including in heavily rural states such as Alabama and Iowa. This focus is part of our recently announced plan to ...