For EY.com, Dimitra DeFotis provided early editorial guidance and helped authors conceive, write and/or edit many articles. Follow-on marketing included social media, email and ad language. A few of many examples:
Private equity value creation: Private equity opportunities in working capital and cash management (PDF)
Private equity value creation: How private equity investment in consumer packaged goods can create value
Nuclear energy and AI: The collaboration needed for US nuclear power projects (PDF)
AI: How businesses should approach responsible AI implementation
Cybersecurity: Why private equity cybersecurity is urgent now
Divestment strategy: What drives value in chemicals industry carve-out strategy
M&A strategy: How to integrate multiple mergers and acquisitions
M&A strategy: How to blend antitrust and health care M&A strategy
Healthcare strategy: Four areas of innovation driving the future of US health care value
Healthcare strategy: Why health systems should embrace value-based care, despite the financial impact
Healthcare strategy: How to blend health care business strategy and antitrust economics in M&A
For Global Finance Magazine, freelance Q&As:
FIS Group CEO Tina Byles Williams on China, trade, and recession.
Veridium CEO James Stickland on cybersecurity risks and biometric identification.
As a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Columbia Business School, following a group social-enterprise journey across India, Dimitra was awarded for a paper she wrote, "Enterprising India: Profits and the Poor." (See the CBS archive or LinkedIn education.)
Chicago Tribune stories by Dimitra DeFotis:
Business articles: Early online auctions and improving farming with data.
Suburban features: Immigrants and faith: Profile of an expanding suburban Chicago Hindu house of worship and article on the Greek language debate in US Orthodox Christian churches.
Barron's investing stories by Dimitra DeFotis: Try Barron's "advanced" search, and change dates to four-year intervals between 2000-2017. There are a few PDFs in the Dimitra DeFotis Barron's section on LinkedIn.
In the technology sector, the best Dimitra DeFotis stock call: the appeal of Microsoft stock at $30 a share. Tech news articles included how Google would benefit from online advertising circa 2012 and HP's M&A woes. For the Barron's tech blog, coverage included Apple, semiconductors, fintech and telecommunications.
On energy, Dimitra organized and edited MLP roundtables in 2012 and 2013 and wrote the Investing in Big Oil cover story. She spoke on CNBC after a big story on Iran and oil prices.
On debt, income and dividends: A column on EM Bonds, a data-screen on 13 dividend payers and Q&As on bonds and banks.
On the Great Financial Crisis:
Why pension funding math didn't add up in 2008, and insiders were selling.
Why shares of Chicago's Northern Trust held appeal.
In April 2009, calling a market bottom after a CBS b-school prof lectured on prayer ("Contemplating Recovery.")
Barron's Q&As by Dimitra DeFotis based on interviews with portfolio managers, executives, investors and market experts. A small selection:
Franklin Templeton's Mark Mobius talked in 2013 about China, Africa, smallcaps, and Bitcoin.
Favorite large cap stocks from Don Yacktman.
One of the first Q&As with Carson Block, a critic of China's reverse mergers.
RBC Commodity Strategist Helima Croft on oil prices and State Department work in Nigeria.
9 Undervalued stocks from around the world from Tocqueville's James Hunt.
Barron's emerging markets columns and blogposts by Dimitra DeFotis:
ASIA: Popular topics included any Vietnam investing theme and China.
AFRICA: Investing in Africa funds and ETFs and blogposts on Nigeria oil and geopolitics.
GREECE: In 2010, the pain was not over for Greek stocks.
INDIA: India's equity prospects in 2016 and risks for India equities in 2017. Blogging on the US H1-B visa and why India's economy needs more working women.
LATIN AMERICA: Argentina's IPO boom, debt default angst in Venezuela, elections in Brazil and Mexico, and state oilco news at Petrobras and Pemex.
RUSSIA: On risk in 2014.
SAUDI ARABIA: On the Saudi currency dollar peg and doubts about Aramco's IPO in 2017.
TURKEY: Skepticism on Turkish equities after the 2016 coup attempt despite a pitch from Turkish CEOs who visited Dimitra and two editors at Barron's.
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