FischerJordan, a New York-based management consulting firm, hosts discussions for business leaders and consumers alike, covering emerging topics on the horizon of finance, technology, and various other domains of the business sector. Welcome to Views from the Crow’s Nest.
In this special episode of Views from the Crow's Nest, FischerJordan once again moderates a round-table discussion between four non-profit food bank/pantry/meal kitchen organizations partnered with us in our U.S. FAIR (Food Availability Improvement Resource) initiative.
Following up on a discussion with these partners from April of this year, we chat about:
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FischerJordan’s FAIR initiative (Food Availability Improvement Resource) is our primary avenue for giving back to the communities where we operate. With FAIR, we’ve partnered with over a dozen volunteer-run, non-profit food pantries and food banks in the US, India, and Israel, supplying them with crucial food items directly to help provide food for those in need in a way that maximizes the impact of every dollar spent. Learn more at https://fischerjordan.com/communities
Recorded, edited, and published by Nathan Johnson for FischerJordan.
In this "return to form" episode of Views from the Crow's Nest, senior FischerJordan associate Jivraj Karwa drives a deep-diving discussion on unique pressures in commercial/industrial (C&I) lending in an inflationary environment.
Jivraj brings his expertise and experience as an analyst to the discussion to talk about the overall picture of the C&I market before and after the COVID-driven recession, some of the ramifications of recent legislation including the Inflation Reduction bill and the CHIPS act, and what we might expect to see in C&I in response to the current inflation-driven recession and signs of a long-awaited housing market slowdown.
This podcast is an in-house production of FischerJordan, a specialized consulting firm in New York with emphases in strategy, analytics, and technology. Find out more about our approach to delivering client value, career opportunities, and our work within our communities at fischerjordan.com.
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In this episode of the Mess Haul, Nathan, Boaz, and Kshitish dip into luxury watches, fintech as an equalizer for inequality, and national security implications of antitrust actions. Some questions we ask (and maybe answer):
The Mess Haul features a more free-form conversational approach with multiple participants than our more interview-focused style. This format is designed to generate quick takes on a handful of recent topics, facilitating shorter, more opinionated discussion with a number of different perspectives. Each episode of The Mess Haul is (usually) recorded, edited, and released in the same day.
Today's conversationalists: Nathan Johnson, Kshitish Nanda, Boaz Salik
Hosted, recorded, and produced for FischerJordan by Nathan Johnson
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FischerJordan is a New York-based consulting, thought-leadership, and outsourcing firm helping business leaders exchange complexity for clarity. We use rigorous data analytics, specialized staffing, and custom technology solutions to deliver workable strategies for clients in financial services and healthcare.
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FischerJordan moderates another round-table discussion for our FAIR (Food Availability Improvement Resource) initiative, this time with representatives from our NGO partners in India.
Similar to the conversation with our U.S. partners, we talk about how they’re addressing the increasing demand for healthier food options, client relationships and needs brought on by the COVID pandemic, and the impact of rising global food costs for their organizations and region.
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FischerJordan’s FAIR initiative (Food Availability Improvement Resource) is our primary avenue for giving back to the communities where we operate. With FAIR, we’ve partnered with over a dozen volunteer-run, non-profit food pantries and food banks in the US, India, and Israel, supplying them with crucial food items directly to help provide food for those in need in a way that maximizes the impact of every dollar spent. Learn more at https://fischerjordan.com/communities
Recorded, edited, and published by Nathan Johnson for FischerJordan.
In this episode of the *Midweek Mess Haul, Nathan, Deeba, and Boaz unpack what went wrong with GrubHub's "free lunch" fiasco back in May, take an analytical look at Berkshire-Hathaway's asset-buying activities as a hedge against inflation, and discuss a vision for a well-rounded digital health future.
The Mess Haul features a more free-form conversational approach with multiple participants than our more interview-focused style. This format is designed to generate quick takes on a handful of recent topics, facilitating shorter, more opinionated discussion with a number of different perspectives. Each episode of The Mess Haul is (usually) recorded, edited, and released in the same day.
Today's conversationalists: Nathan Johnson, Deeba Goyal, Boaz Salik
Hosted, recorded, and produced for FischerJordan by Nathan Johnson
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FischerJordan is a New York-based consulting, thought-leadership, and outsourcing firm helping business leaders exchange complexity for clarity. We use rigorous data analytics, specialized staffing, and custom technology solutions to deliver workable strategies for clients in financial services and healthcare.
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In this episode of the *Midweek Mess Haul, Nathan, Neet, and Boaz share thoughts on GMOs mosquitos, their outlook on crypto after the hard plummet of 5/12, and the strategic ramifications of permanent social media bans.
The Mess Haul features a more free-form conversational approach with multiple participants than our more interview-focused style. This format is designed to generate quick takes on a handful of recent topics, facilitating shorter, more opinionated discussion with a number of different perspectives. Each episode of The Mess Haul is (usually) recorded, edited, and released in the same day.
Today's conversationalists: Nathan Johnson, Neet Shah, Boaz Salik
Hosted, recorded, and produced for FischerJordan by Nathan Johnson
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FischerJordan is a New York-based consulting, thought-leadership, and outsourcing firm helping business leaders exchange complexity for clarity. We use rigorous data analytics, specialized staffing, and custom technology solutions to deliver workable strategies for clients in financial services and healthcare.
Background articles for this episode:
In this special episode of Views from the Crow's Nest, FischerJordan moderates a round-table discussion between five non-profit food bank/pantry/meal kitchen organizations partnered with us in our FAIR (Food Availability Improvement Resource) initiative.
We talk about how they’re addressing the increasing demand for healthier food options, client relationships and needs brought on by the COVID pandemic, and collaborations to lower cost and increase product offerings.
Organizations represented in this discussion -
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FischerJordan’s FAIR initiative (Food Availability Improvement Resource) is our primary avenue for giving back to the communities where we operate. With FAIR, we’ve partnered with over a dozen volunteer-run, non-profit food pantries and food banks in the US, India, and Israel, supplying them with crucial food items directly to help provide food for those in need in a way that maximizes the impact of every dollar spent. Learn more at https://fischerjordan.com/communities
Recorded, edited, and published by Nathan Johnson for FischerJordan.
In this episode of the *Midweek Mess Haul, Nathan, Jivraj, and Boaz get into hostile takeovers, public transit crime rates, and AI disease prediction.
The Mess Haul features a more free-form conversational approach with multiple participants than our more interview-focused style. This format is designed to generate quick takes on a handful of recent topics, facilitating shorter, more opinionated discussion with a number of different perspectives. Each episode of The Mess Haul is (usually) recorded, edited, and released in the same day.
Today's conversationalists: Nathan Johnson, Jivraj Karwa, Boaz Salik
Hosted, recorded, and produced for FischerJordan by Nathan Johnson
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FischerJordan is a New York-based consulting, thought-leadership, and outsourcing firm helping business leaders exchange complexity for clarity. We use rigorous data analytics, specialized staffing, and custom technology solutions to deliver workable strategies for clients in financial services and healthcare.
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In this episode of the Monday Mess Haul, Nathan, Kshitish, and Boaz get technical.
The Mess Haul features a more free-form conversational approach with multiple participants than our more interview-focused style. This format is designed to generate quick takes on a handful of recent topics, facilitating shorter, more opinionated discussion with a number of different perspectives. Each episode of The Mess Haul is (usually) recorded, edited, and released in the same day.
Today's conversationalists: Nathan Johnson, Kshitish Nanda, Boaz Salik
Hosted, recorded, and produced for FischerJordan by Nathan Johnson
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FischerJordan is a New York-based consulting, thought-leadership, and outsourcing firm helping business leaders exchange complexity for clarity. We use rigorous data analytics, specialized staffing, and custom technology solutions to deliver workable strategies for clients in financial services and healthcare.
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In this episode of the Monday Mess Haul, Nathan, Deeba, and Boaz break some old forms and start some new ones.
The Mess Haul features a more free-form conversational approach with multiple participants than our more interview-focused style. This format is designed to generate quick takes on a handful of recent topics, facilitating shorter, more opinionated discussion with a number of different perspectives. Each episode of The Mess Haul is (usually) recorded, edited, and released in the same day.
Today's conversationalists: Nathan Johnson, Deeba Goyal, Boaz Salik
Hosted, recorded, and produced for FischerJordan by Nathan Johnson
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FischerJordan is a New York-based consulting, thought-leadership, and outsourcing firm helping business leaders exchange complexity for clarity. We use rigorous data analytics, specialized staffing, and custom technology solutions to deliver workable strategies for clients in financial services and healthcare.
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In this episode of the Monday Mess Haul, we brought in both FischerJordan partners for a speculative discussion on some current hot-button issues, including:
The Mess Haul features a more free-form conversational approach with multiple participants than our more interview-focused style. This format is designed to generate quick takes on a handful of recent topics, facilitating shorter, more opinionated discussion with a number of different perspectives. Each episode of The Mess Haul is recorded, edited, and released in the same day.
Today's guests: Neet Shah, Boaz Salik
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FischerJordan is a New York-based consulting, thought-leadership, and outsourcing firm helping business leaders exchange complexity for clarity. We use rigorous data analytics, specialized staffing, and custom technology solutions to deliver workable strategies for clients in financial services and healthcare.
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In this episode of the Monday Mess Haul (MMH), FischerJordan team members get into sports and cars (just not sports cars). Some of our questions for each other:
The Mess Haul features a more free-form conversational approach with multiple participants than our more interview-focused style. This format is designed to generate quick takes on a handful of recent topics, facilitating shorter, more opinionated discussion with a number of different perspectives. Each episode of The Mess Haul is recorded, edited, and released in the same day.
Today's guests: Kshitish Nanda, Boaz Salik
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FischerJordan is a New York-based consulting, thought-leadership, and outsourcing firm helping business leaders exchange complexity for clarity. We use rigorous data analytics, specialized staffing, and custom technology solutions to deliver workable strategies for clients in financial services and healthcare.
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In this episode of The Monday Mess Haul, we want to know what's going on. Specifically, we want to know:
The Mess Haul features a more free-form conversational approach with multiple participants than our more interview-focused style. This format is designed to generate quick takes on a handful of recent topics, facilitating shorter, more opinionated discussion with a number of different perspectives. Each episode of The Mess Haul is recorded, edited, and released in the same day.
Today's guests: Jivraj Karwa, Boaz Salik
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We're back with our first full-length episode of 2022 in this forward-looking conversation with entrepreneur Trevor Barran. Trevor is a FischerJordan co-founder and is currently one of four partners at CloudTree Ventures, which is focused on technologies driving interactive entertainment and the metaverse.
We get into both some broad trends and specific applications of the immersive entertainment space – which includes things like augmented and virtual reality, but you’ll quickly learn that there are things happening in this domain that go far beyond just entertainment or gaming. Some of the topics we cover:
Find out more about CloudTree Ventures at https://cloudtree.vc/
This podcast is an in-house production of FischerJordan, a specialized consulting firm in New York with emphases in strategy, analytics, and technology. Find out more about our approach to delivering client value, career opportunities, and our work within our communities at fischerjordan.com.
NOTES - Key Terms and Further Reading
Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC): “A special purpose acquisition company, also known as a "blank check company", is a shell corporation listed on a stock exchange with the purpose of acquiring a private company, thus making it public without going through the traditional initial public offering process. Wikipedia”
OMO – Online Merged with Offline
Matthew Ball
xR = Extended Reality. From WorldStage: “Extended Reality (xR) is a next-generation process for film, broadcast and live event production. ... Mixed Reality (MR) combines camera tracking and real-time rendering to create an immersive virtual environment, visible live on set and shot directly in camera.”
What are haptics?
In this episode of The Mess Haul, we unpack three current topics from other publications, grappling with questions like:
The Mess Haul features a more free-form conversational approach with multiple participants than our more interview-focused style. This format is designed to generate quick takes on a handful of recent topics, facilitating shorter, more opinionated discussion with a number of different perspectives. Each episode of The Mess Haul is recorded, edited, and released in the same day.
Today's guests: Anoushka Khanna, Boaz Salik
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In this episode of The Mess Haul, we get into a discussion about three recent news stories:
The Mess Haul features a more free-form conversational approach with multiple participants than our more interview-focused style. This format is designed to generate quick takes on a handful of recent topics, facilitating shorter, more opinionated discussion with a number of different perspectives.
In this episode we catch up with FischerJordan senior analyst Austin LaRoche about his research into the current state of food insecurity in the U.S. - post-COVID especially - and what FischerJordan is doing about it. Some of the things we cover in this special episode:
We wrap up with an inside look at a new initiative at FischerJordan to try to address the problem of food insecurity in the communities where we operate - and how food banks and pantries can help out.
Some key resources referenced during this episode:
Naren Nayak is a 20-year veteran of Capital Markets and Securitization and current treasurer at Credibly, a leading small business fintech lender. In this episode of Views from the Crow's Nest, we sat down with him and senior FischerJordan manager Sachin Goel for a dialogue about the evolution of the alternative lending space in the time preceding, during, and eventually following the COVID-19 pandemic.
Some of what we covered:
Welcome to the crow's nest!
In this second installment of The Mess Haul (or Mess Hall), FischerJordan team members Archita Bhandari and Jivraj Karwa and partner Boaz Salik chat about whether we're headed for another anti-trust cycle, this time for Big Tech. We then shift to some speculation about programmed bias in AI/ML and whether there has ever been a successful social or governmental attempt to limit a technology's advancement.
The Mess Haul is a departure from our usual interview-style format, instead featuring a more free-form conversational approach with multiple participants. This format is designed to generate quick takes on a handful of recent topics, facilitating shorter, more opinionated discussion with a number of different perspectives.
This episode introduces The Mess Haul (or Mess Hall), a slight departure from our usual interview-style format instead featuring a more free-form conversational approach with multiple participants. This format is designed to generate quick takes on a handful of recent topics, an opportunity for shorter, more opinionated discussion with a number of different perspectives.
Today's guests are FischerJordan team members Shreya Jain and Austin LaRoche and partner Boaz Salik in a fireside chat riffing on the implications of the GME stock rally and Wall Street Bets saga in early 2021, followed by some speculations on the next stage of Bitcoin mass adoption.
Views from the Crow's Nest returns with a special double interview with Neet Shah and Dr. Elena Koshkina, two tenured professionals in healthcare analytics and data science. In our conversation we delve into some interesting developments at the intersection of data science advancements and the field of population health management. Some of the topics we covered include:
We had the chance to spend time with Elena Koshkina and Neet Shah for a deep diving conversation on data science in population health management. This short five-minute sample will give you a preview of the full discussion episode, coming out later in November 2020!
By now the world is well familiar with the adverse effects of the pandemic for a number of industries and how COVID has impacted the U.S. GDP. Some have also heard about the Fed and various states' intervention programs to mitigate some of those effects, as referenced in our previous episode of VFTCN. At the center of the current maelstrom of the Fed regulations, pandemic effects, increased demand, loans and defaults, investors and depositors, are the banks. In this episode, we get to talk with Shreya Jain, a senior analyst at FischerJordan, and take a look at the bank's side of this story, where unfortunately the "grass isn't always greener."
The economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been much-discussed and debated, especially regarding its impact on small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs). For some small business owners making steady payments on small business loans before the pandemic, the grim prospect of defaulting may now feel dangerously imminent. This fragile backdrop is now the proving ground for new ways to think about the relationship between borrower and lender.
In our first full-length episode of Views from the Crow's Nest, we sit down with Boaz Salik, PhD, founder and CEO of FischerJordan, to examine the second order economic effects of the COVID pandemic for lenders in the next six months to a year or more.
Welcome to Views from the Crow's Nest by FischerJordan. This introductory episode will answer two questions: who/what is FischerJordan, and what you can expect to see from the crow's nest.
Find out more about FischerJordan's strategic management consulting framework and client expertise at fischerjordan.com