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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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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

They operate in a bubble and do not attend the party. A finance executive said this of the decades-old corporate attitude, “We are GM. to 17.9%, from 1980 to 2015. A global IBM study found that 33% of CEOs had engineering degrees and another 15% had finance degrees. CEOs focus on data, facts, figures, and metrics.

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Bridging Organization Design and Performance

Kates Kesler

The economic recovery of 2010-2015 has triggered a number of high-profile mergers, but even more break-ups and spin-offs among large global companies, particularly those based in the US. The “global operating model” (GOM) is the means to manage this complexity, this tension, this need for both leverage and agility.

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The Impact of Carbon Taxation on Supply Chains in China

Comatch

Green finance is becoming increasingly dominant, as long-term investors see environmental risk management as a fundamental success factor in securing long-term returns. At COP21 in Paris in 2015, all participating countries agreed to work together to “ limit global warming to well below 2 degrees and aim for 1.5

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Job Hub: Uber Jobs and Culture

Management Consulted

Operational worldwide, Uber offers its transportation network services in 58 countries and over 300 cities. Estimated to be valued at around $50B as of July 2015, Uber has experienced a rapid (to say the least!) 28% of Management Consultants Pursue Finance. seven years of growth. Related posts: Post Consulting Jobs.

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Why Doctors Need Leadership Training

Harvard Business

Despite this lack of focused attention toward development of leadership capabilities in trainees, evidence suggests that leadership quality affects patients, healthcare system outcomes, and finances alike. impact of training on quality metrics) of their interventions.

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Mergers & Acquisitions: The Importance of Creating a Shared Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

UNDERSTANDING THE LOCAL CULTURAL CONTEXT Today many industries and organizations operate on a global scale. Usually, due diligence is conducted by lawyers and experts in finance or accounting rather than experts in understanding and diagnosing culture. Lack of cultural due diligence is often a problem.

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