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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. According to Bain’s Macro Trends Group, the global supply of capital stands at nearly 10 times global GDP. Vincent Tsui for HBR. There you have it.

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Consultant Ninja: A Simple Question about the Credit Markets.

Consultant Ninja

Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. Productivity. (6). Tuesday, March 31, 2009. A Simple Question about the Credit Markets. Why are the major "sick" banks the only vehicle to provide credit to businesses?

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5 Ways to Increase Your Cross-Selling

Harvard Business

As a result, USAA outperforms most competitors in the number of products held by its customers. For example, Bain & Company’s recent analysis of the U.S. Managers wanting to grow share of wallet and raise the productivity of their cross-selling efforts may have to confront longstanding practices that stand in the way.

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Stop Focusing on Profitability and Go for Growth

Harvard Business

Bain & Company’s Macro Trends Group carefully analyzed the global balance sheet and found that the world is awash in money. Global capital balances more than doubled between 1990 and 2010 — from $220 trillion (about 6.5 Bain recently completed research on workforce productivity.

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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business

For its part, Nikon focused on cost optimization opportunities and balance sheet management when communicating to value-oriented investors and on long-term structural changes when communicating to growth-oriented investors. Heini Wehrle/BIA/Minden Pictures/Getty Images. Most companies see investor relations as a one-way street.

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