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It’s Not “Time Management.” It’s Lean.

Markovitz Consulting

Of course, software firm 37 Signals has been operating four-day work weeks over the summer since 2008. Unfortunately, companies in the lean community don’t seem to take much note of, or try to copy these experiments, probably because the benefits aren’t reflected on the income statement or balance sheet.

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Why Apple Is Getting into the Energy Business

Harvard Business

Some of the energy saved and resold will come from traditional energy efficiency (EE) investments, which companies have been making for many years. However, the explosion of smart digital- and internet-connected devices has created a new form of energy efficiency that adds immediate control over equipment as a new EE strategy.

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Consultant Ninja: A Simple Question about the Credit Markets.

Consultant Ninja

Heres my understanding of the current TARP/TARPII/PPIP/etc plans: The major "sick" banks wont lend to businesses, because their balance sheets are tied up with bad assets that they cant sell. Joel on Software. A Simple Question about the Credit Markets. Posted by Consultant Ninja. at 7:39 PM. Labels: Analysis. Periodic Table.

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

Harvard Business

See More Videos > See More Videos > Tackle the balance sheet. “Take an interest in the balance sheet and then do the due diligence to understand it,” he says. “There are four ratios common in every company: profitability, leverage, liquidity, and operational efficiency,” he says.

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

Harvard Business

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.