Friday, December 14, 2018

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Too busy during the week? Catch up with last week's readings:

Businesses

F.A.O Schwarz piano is back but with a different tune  $(Link)

Order a Whopper sandwich for a penny at McDonald's with the Burger King app (Link) 

Alternative banks $(Link)

Designing an unconventional ad agency (Link)

The CEO of Panera Bread stepped down to focus on a pet cause: warning the world about the danger of fixating on short-term profits as the cost of social stability (Link)

Doug McMillon, Wal-Mart CEO, keeps a list of the top 10 retailers over the decades to remind him you have to innovate and adapt constantly #OnlyTheParanoidSurvive (Link)

Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, reveals how the company got its groove back (Link)

How the Starbucks app created so many reward-hungry obsessives (Link)

Investing

Corporate credit bond markets: To BBB or not to BBB? (Link)

BBBe careful (Link)

China

China helping build panopticon $(Link)

China underestimating its US$3 trillion dollar debt (Link) 


Charts