SAM Coverage
Jeff Harbaugh
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The “Not the 2007-08 Economic Analysis”
How this author manages to not look at the annual industry economic report, but still come up with some good advice. Every year, SAM…
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It’s Good to Be Big
This year’s Economic Analysis doesn’t hold many surprises, except if you are in the middle of the pack. I swear I have to be…
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Alice in Winterland
An in-depth look at the NSAA Economic Analysis for the 2005-2006 season. Sometimes the numbers don’t tell the whole story. The headline, according to…
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Advantages in Summer Activities: Terrain, Lifts, and Gravity
Meditations on the role and potential of off-season business. Boy, is it ever difficult to write about summer activities at winter resorts. Summer has…
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A Little Snow Does Not Make Us Great Managers
In 1980, Michael Porter, a Harvard business Guru, published “Competitive Strategy.” In it, he discusses how industries change and how companies have to change,…
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Ride and ASC Find Much Needed Working Capital
It doesn’t matter how good your strategy is if you can’t meet your ongoing operating expenses. But at least a viable strategy means you…
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It’s All in Your Prospectus
I hold in my hand the prospectuses for the public offerings of Vail, Intrawest and American Skiing. The prospectus is the selling document for…