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Business Book Review: Boston Consulting Group On Strategy

Management Consulted

These Perspectives are the concise pieces designed to stimulate senior management on various business issues put together by several Consultants, including the founder of Boston Consulting Group, Bruce Henderson. The focus here is completely on cash flows and not projections. WHY READ IT? OVERALL SUMMARY & CONCLUSION.

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Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation?

MishTalk

So refraining from any forecast of what will happen in the near term, it’s sufficient to observe that the economic data is not nearly as strong as widely perceived, and the impact of QE on stock prices does nothing to improve the underlying cash flows. 2012-11-03: Capital Account. 2012-10-10: Capital Account.

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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business

Nikon, the legendary Japanese camera maker, provides a textbook study in how smart managers can work with strategic investors to transform a struggling business. They had surged with the rise of digital camera only to peak in 2012, coming back down as smart phones became widely used. Heini Wehrle/BIA/Minden Pictures/Getty Images.

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Do Lawyers Make Better CEOs Than MBAs?

Harvard Business

After all, there’s a subtle difference in how these two disciplines train people to understand and manage risks: Legal training focuses on the downside of particular actions, while business training may emphasize the upsides for shareholder value from risk taking. We looked at about 3,500 CEOs, about 9% of whom have law degrees.

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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. From 2012 to 2014 we set up research sites in 10 communities across the country. households.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation.

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

MishTalk

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. From 2003 to 2012, these projects have ranged from $54.2 It is not a balance sheet test, but a cash flow test.