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Session 9: Developing the Consultant Data Base— Economist as Entrepreneur
Our speakers will profile their information-based businesses and tell how they developed their consulting business from an industry data set “foundation.” In each case, while data was a starting point, the business was nurtured and expanded through customer contacts and recognition of key industry issues to which they were able to bring answers. The end result was the establishment of a franchise in which they are the authoritative source for both data and expertise in their fields.
Presentations
Kenny Vieth: Building a Knowledge-Based Business
Allen Grommet: Developing the Consultant Database
Links of Interest
Speakers
Maurine Haver
President
Haver Analytics
Maurine is President and founder of Haver Analytics Inc., an economic consulting and information services company. Prior to starting Haver Analytics in 1978, she was an economist in the economic forecasting group of General Electric in New York, a member of the International Staff of Companie Bull General Electric in Paris and a consultant in the Foreign Currency Exposure Management Group of the Chase Manhattan Bank in London.
Maurine served as President of the National Association of Business Economists (1994-95) and now chairs the NABE campaign for Quality Economic Data that she initiated during her year as president. In her role as Chair of the NABE Statistics Committee, she testifies before Congress on statistical issues, conducts quarterly meetings which bring together producers and users of federal statistics and organizes seminars to help users better understand the statistics available from government and private sources.
Maurine chairs the Business Research Advisory Council of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Bureau of Economic Analysis. She has served as secretary of the Forecasters Club of New York since 1992. She is a past president of the New York Association for Business Economics (1989-90), the Downtown Economists Club (1993-94) and the Money Marketeers of New York University (1998-99). She chaired the board of the Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics (COPAFS) during 2001-2003. She currently serves on the board of Mutual of America and is a member of the American Economic Association, the American Statistical Association and the National Economists Club.
Maurine holds a B.S. in Economics and Mathematics from Michigan State University, an M.B.A. from the Stern School of New York University and completed her oral exam for a PhD in International Economics at NYU.
Kenny W. Vieth
Partner
A.C.T. Research Co., LLC
Allen Grommet
Senior Economist
Cambridge Consumer Credit Index
Allen Grommet holds a Ph.D. in economics from Michigan State University and has served as Chief Economist for the U.S. House Budget Committee in Washington, D.C. He has worked with the financial investment staffs of Chemical Bank, Equitable Life, Merrill Lynch and the Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa (futures) Exchange in New York. He also worked with Money Magazine and ABC News in developing and marketing an index measure of consumer confidence. Dr. Grommet has worked extensively with alternative tax legislation and economic forecasts as well as helped develop small- and medium-size business projections. Since 2001 he has worked with Cambridge helping to develop the Cambridge Consumer Credit Index. He works with financial and forecasting economists to explain and help analyze developments in the consumer sector. He writes the monthly Economic Analysis on each month’s index survey. As an independent Financial Advisor, Dr. Grommet works with private and business clients to develop investment strategies, financial plans, insurance protection proposals, education and retirement plans and estate tax programs. In recent years he has worked with consumers to develop risk strategies protecting against market volatility and sinking equity prices.
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