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What is a Healthy Company?

Markovitz Consulting

Similarly, one of the primary drivers of GE’s fall from grace was the reckless pursuit of profits from its financing operations. Healthy companies understand that they have a vital role to play in the health of the communities in which they operate. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering. What makes for a healthy company?

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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. For example, in many technology companies software engineers are organized in a leveling structure.

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BIS Slams the Fed; Ridiculous Question of the Day: "Is The Fed Going To Attempt A Controlled Collapse?"

MishTalk

It is essential to move away from debt as the main engine of growth. " This has been labelled the “second phase of global liquidity”, to differentiate it from the pre-crisis phase, which was largely centred on banks expanding their cross-border operations. Moreover, even the prospects for restoring trend growth are not bright.

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Shockingly Bad Fiscal Health of Chicago (and the Financial Engineering Chicago Uses to Hide that Fact)

MishTalk

The following guest post by Culpepper first appeared on Tumblr as How Chicago has used financial engineering to paper over its massive budget gap. How Chicago Used Financial Engineering to Paper Over its Massive Budget Gap Chicago made headlines at the end of February after Moody’s downgraded the city’s general obligation bond rating to Baa2.

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We Need to Approach AI Risks Like We Do Natural Disasters

Harvard Business

Today, many companies are exposed to intelligent device risks that could harm both their own operations as well as their customers. Intelligent Device Recovery Plans. Yet few have formally quantified the size of their revenue at risk and potential liability.

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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business

After all, the first prototype of a digital camera was created in 1975 by Steve Sasson, an engineer working for … Kodak. Maybe in 2010 it would have lured a young engineer from Google named Kevin Systrom to create a mobile version of the site. But that doesn’t square with reality. The right lessons from Kodak are subtle.

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5 Ways Your Data Strategy Can Fail

Harvard Business

Paradoxically, “data” appear everywhere but on the balance sheet and income statement. Leadership must realize that earning even a fraction of the value data offer takes more than simply bolting an AI program into one department or asking IT to digitize operations. Except for very few, this hasn’t happened.

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