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Looking Beyond Short Term Financial Metrics (Nigel Lake, Part 2 of 10)

Tom Spencer

One of my colleagues at Pottinger held an iPhone in his hand in about 2003, which was four years before Apple had the iPhone, except that the iPhone said Nokia on the bottom of it. The high profits in year one may turn into no market capitalisation by year five. Very large organisations do this. Tom: That’s very interesting.

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Shockingly Bad Fiscal Health of Chicago (and the Financial Engineering Chicago Uses to Hide that Fact)

MishTalk

trillion muni market had puzzled at the true identity of Bond Girl, Hector Negroni, co-founder of New York-based investing firm Fundamental Credit Opportunities, said in a telephone interview. “ There has been a structural gap in Chicago’s Corporate Fund budget since at least 2003. Buyers and traders in the $3.7 The city has a very?—?well,

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We Tracked Every Dollar 235 U.S. Households Spent for a Year, and Found Widespread Financial Vulnerability

Harvard Business

The lack of access to stable, predictable cash flows is the hard-to-see source of much of today’s economic insecurity. Financial Diaries (USFD), an unprecedented study to collect detailed cash flow data for U.S. This income volatility is the result of broad shifts in the labor market. households.

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How U.S. Hospitals and Health Systems Can Reverse Their Sliding Financial Performance

Harvard Business

The root cause is twofold: a mismatch between organizations’ strategies and actual market demand, and a lack of operational discipline. To achieve sustainable financial performance, health systems must match their strategy to the actual market demand. health systems. The following areas deserve special management attention.

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