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Consultant Ninja: When "hedging" is just speculation: Management.

Consultant Ninja

Uniteds fuel hedging strategy has all the marks of some smooth-talking consultants or bankers. The Company’s cash flows and results of operations have been adversely impacted by these factors as indicated by its net loss of $5.3 I am a strategy consultant at. Wednesday, March 4, 2009. Way to go, United. "In

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2016 ECS Value Creators Report: Building Endurance

BCG

Beyond being in the right place, or having the right skills, at the right time, many of these companies have pursued strategies to maximize their advantages in the challenging environment. ECS technology companies represent an intriguing bright spot, substantially outperforming the ECS industry as well as the S&P 500 since 2010.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business

Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

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Do Lawyers Make Better CEOs Than MBAs?

Harvard Business

For the past several years, Wells Fargo has been run by MBAs, while Bank of America’s CEO since 2010, Brian Moynihan, has a law degree from Notre Dame. In addition, firms with lawyer CEOs seemed more likely to deploy strategies that are associated with less litigation, and their firms experienced lower volatility.

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

MishTalk

The Corporate Fund is Chicago’s general operating fund. Chicago’s property tax revenues do not go into its general operating fund. Although most governments are required to balance their budgets on a cash flow basis each fiscal year, a structural budget gap can arise when recurring expenditures are greater than recurring revenues.

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Stop Focusing on Profitability and Go for Growth

Harvard Business

Global capital balances more than doubled between 1990 and 2010 — from $220 trillion (about 6.5 The ready access to low-cost capital should change the way business leaders think about strategy, and in particular the relative value of improving profit margins versus accelerating growth. times global GDP). Related Video.