Forbes

6 Clues Your Business Needs Faster New Product Cycles

In my experience consulting with entrepreneurs and small business owners, I see many with excessively long or costly new business development cycles, compared to the rate of change and competitive ...
Forbes

Managing Business Growth At Every Stage Of The Economic Cycle

Steve Swinney is CEO of Kodiak Building Partners, a leader in the building materials industry that manages locally led companies. Recent interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve are a welcome sign ...
Marketplace

Economists used the business cycle to predict what’s next. It doesn’t work so well anymore.

The “business cycle” might just be one of the oldest ideas in economics. For more than 200 years, economists have been pointing to the tendency of economies to expand, then slow down, contract and ...
The New York Times

Is the Boom-and-Bust Business Cycle Dead?

There is a growing view that the U.S. business cycle has changed (for better) in a more diversified economy. To some, that sounds like tempting fate. By Talmon Joseph Smith For much of modern history, ...
Seeking Alpha

The Role Of Consumer Spending In The Business Cycle: Confirmation, Not Prediction

Consumer spending is a coincident-to-lagging indicator, not a leading one, so it’s a poor tool for forecasting the business cycle. Durable goods consumption is the most cyclical and informative ...