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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business

If you’re not a numbers person, finance is daunting. Stop avoiding finance because you’re afraid of numbers. Think of it this way, “Finance is the way businesses keep score. “Finance and accounting are very simple. .” “Finance and accounting are very simple. Overcome your fears.

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How Blockchain Applications Will Move Beyond Finance

Harvard Business

In the fall of 2014 my colleague Catherine Tucker and I conducted a large-scale experiment at MIT, in which 4,494 undergraduate students were offered access to bitcoin. To understand the transformation that’s being brought about by blockchain technology, it’s useful to start with its largest implementation to date: bitcoin.

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Breaking down the M&A Case Study

Tom Spencer

Can the buyer easily finance the acquisition? And in 2014, it decided to purchase Beats Electronics which had just launched a music streaming business. Jason Oh is a management consultant at Novantas with expertise in scaling profitability and improving business efficiency for financial institutions. Apple Acquisition.

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Looking for a Good Education at a Low Price, Perhaps Free? Head to Europe

MishTalk

On June 7, 2014 I wrote Looking to Drastically Reduce College Costs? In other words: Finland will finance your education, but not your afternoon coffee break. It also offers some of the world''s most cost-efficient college degrees. Study Abroad! Yesterday, a writer for the Washington Post expressed the same opinion.

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Response to Ram Charan HBR Article – “It’s Time To Split HR Up”

Kates Kesler

Ram Charan’s provocative article ( It’s Time to Split HR, HBR, p 34, July-Aug 2014 ) voices a common frustration we hear both from business executives and frankly, HR leaders themselves. But, honestly, if we were having a similar conversation about the CFO and the finance function, it would be a very short one. or even HR!

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The Hidden Costs of Initial Coin Offerings

Harvard Business

More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Less noticed, though, is ICOs appear almost antithetical to the standard approach to financing a risky venture. In fact, ICOs have upended the conventional pattern of staged experimentation and fundraising.

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What are the potential risks of digital currency?

Tom Spencer

In 2017, initial coin offerings (ICOs) were also banned in China as a form of “public financing without approval”. Monero , a cryptocurrency launched in 2014, is considered to be a true ‘privacy coin’, which obfuscates the sender, receiver, and amount of each transaction. Loss of privacy. Acts of God.

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