http://www.devilsadvocategroup.com We Stress Test Your Strategies Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:05:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.devilsadvocategroup.com/perfecting-the-art-of-the-deal-2/ http://www.devilsadvocategroup.com/perfecting-the-art-of-the-deal-2/#comments Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:50:54 +0000 Paul Carroll and Chunka Mui http://www.billiondollarlessons.com/?p=225 download the entire article in PDF form.]]> http://www.devilsadvocategroup.com/perfecting-the-art-of-the-deal-2/feed/ 0 http://www.devilsadvocategroup.com/satyam-when-will-people-learn/ http://www.devilsadvocategroup.com/satyam-when-will-people-learn/#comments Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:56:29 +0000 Paul Carroll and Chunka Mui http://www.billiondollarlessons.com/?p=185 In acknowledging an enormous fraud at Indian outsourcer Satyam, the chief executive said the overstatements of earnings, revenue and cash were, well, not really intentional. It's just that he had this small problem a few years ago, so he fudged a bit. Then, to cover that up, he had to fiddle a bit more. Then a bit more. Now, he's having to acknowledge a scandal that threatens to kill a company that he spent more than two decades building and that employs 53,000 people worldwide.]]> http://www.devilsadvocategroup.com/satyam-when-will-people-learn/feed/ 0 http://www.devilsadvocategroup.com/microsoft-using-the-power-of-free/ http://www.devilsadvocategroup.com/microsoft-using-the-power-of-free/#comments Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:56:23 +0000 Paul Carroll and Chunka Mui http://www.billiondollarlessons.com/?p=165 Microsoft's announcement that it will offer 0% financing on many software purchases of as much as $1 million is the sort of creative approach that healthy companies can take to win market share during the economic crisis. Flush with cash, Microsoft can afford to offer financing at a time when other sources of credit have just about dried up for many businesses. In fact, the financing will cost Microsoft little. Once Microsoft has paid the huge costs for developing software, producing additional copies costs almost nothing, so even if the vast majority of customers defaulted on their 0% financing Microsoft would still come out ahead.]]> http://www.devilsadvocategroup.com/microsoft-using-the-power-of-free/feed/ 0 http://www.devilsadvocategroup.com/freddie-mac-blame-the-ceo/ http://www.devilsadvocategroup.com/freddie-mac-blame-the-ceo/#comments Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:06:41 +0000 Paul Carroll and Chunka Mui http://www.billiondollarlessons.com/?p=101 http://www.devilsadvocategroup.com/freddie-mac-blame-the-ceo/feed/ 0 http://www.devilsadvocategroup.com/steve-barrys-sub-prime-retailing/ http://www.devilsadvocategroup.com/steve-barrys-sub-prime-retailing/#comments Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:09:05 +0000 Paul Carroll and Chunka Mui http://chunka.com/BDL/?p=96 http://www.devilsadvocategroup.com/steve-barrys-sub-prime-retailing/feed/ 1