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Germany’s Midsize Manufacturers Outperform Its Industrial Giants

Harvard Business

Most of these companies are private and don’t publish their balance sheets. But a new analysis from the German Savings Banks Association shows that, in the last fiscal year, its midsize company clients managed, on average, profit margins of 7.3%. By contrast, the 110 largest German companies had margins of just 6.3%.

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What If Companies Managed People as Carefully as They Manage Money?

Harvard Business

Today’s executives spend a lot of time managing the balance sheet, despite the fact that it doesn’t represent their company’s scarcest resource. Teams of financial planning and analysis professionals measure actual and expected results for financial capital. Vincent Tsui for HBR. Monitor it.