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Do You Know What Your Company’s Data Is Worth?

Harvard Business

Accurately measuring enterprise value (EV) has never been more important or challenging. Data contributes not only to brand equity, but to what constitutes product and service delivery in globally connected and hyper-competitive markets. Today most organizations are data-driven to one degree or another.

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China Cash Crunch Eases, For How Long? Three Things China Needs to Avoid; When can Beijing Truly move to Market-Determined Interest Rates?

MishTalk

China''s Move to Market-Set Rates Let''s step back to December 8 and look at China Relaxes Grip on Interest Rates China is relaxing its grip on interest rates with the launch of a financial instrument that allows banks to trade deposits with each other at market-determined prices. China’s credit boom is still in full swing.

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Banks – Industry Overview

Tom Spencer

Historically, commercial banking and investment banking functions have been separated by law – these restrictions have since been repealed and larger banks tend to take on capital markets operations due to the complimentary nature of the businesses. In secondary markets, the sales & trading function operates as a market maker.

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Germany’s Midsize Manufacturers Outperform Its Industrial Giants

Harvard Business

They belong to a class of small-to-medium German enterprises that are outperforming the country’s top public companies. Most of these companies are private and don’t publish their balance sheets. By contrast, the 110 largest German companies had margins of just 6.3%. This success is no blip.

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

Harvard Business

A platform connects providers and users in a multisided market. 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). Think of E as Enterprise Value. Value is in the products and services themselves.

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Blockchain Could Make the Insurance Industry Much More Transparent

Harvard Business

It breeds indifference, which in turn breeds a yawning gap between underwriters, whose balance sheets absorb risk (the risk takers), and customers, whose enterprises create risks (the risk makers). Failure to act may consign many large players to the continuing trust deficit or, worse, irrelevance.

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What the Companies That Predict the Future Do Differently

Harvard Business

Such knowledge does not come easily, but the increasing density of digital information, deeper automated connections across companies, and increased storage and computing power create new options for enterprise leaders. The ultimate goal is to treat information as a tangible flow rather than an intangible asset stuck on the balance sheet.

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