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Human Resources Management – How to Get Started

Tom Spencer

Human resource teams are critical to the growth of a company since employees typically represent both the biggest operating expense and largest off-balance sheet asset for most businesses. The goal of compensation teams is to develop competitive compensation packages to recruit and retain strong talent.

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Why Financial Statements Don’t Work for Digital Companies

Harvard Business

This becomes clear when you look at a company’s two most important financial statements: the balance sheet and the income statement. Let’s first look at the balance sheet. Therefore, the balance sheets of physical and digital companies present entirely different pictures.

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

Harvard Business

The most important concepts to grasp are “how to measure profitability, EBITDA, operating income, revenue, and operating expenses,” he says. See More Videos > See More Videos > Tackle the balance sheet. Of course, there are also myriad books and reference guides on the topic. Related Video.

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Your Company Needs a More-Radical Board of Directors

Harvard Business

My guess is that while a poor balance sheet might cause restless sleep, it’s the thought of an incorrectly reported balance sheet that brings on night terrors. What’s a typical independent director’s worst nightmare? It’s not surprising. I’m not against benchmarking and norming.

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7 Skills That Aren’t About to Be Automated

Harvard Business

Today’s young professionals grew up in an age of mind-boggling technological change, seeing the growth of the internet, the invention of the smartphone, and the development of machine-learning systems. For example, the original Google car found it hard to compute the context within which it was operating.

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business

But platforms and networks can be developed in many different ways. A platform can be a business platform (a multisided market), a software platform (a cloud-based subscription service), or an engagement platform, (a user-generated community). For most companies intellectual property is something that sits on their balance sheet.

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Pettis Proposes Savings Glut and Income Inequality are Source of Global Imbalances; Mish vs. Pettis: I Respectfully Disagree

MishTalk

This model rests on an understanding of how distortions in the savings rates of different countries have driven the great trade and balance-sheet distortions with which we are wrestling today, just as they have in most previous global crises, including those of the 1870s, the 1930s, and the 1970s.

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