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

Harvard Business

After all, if you’re trying to sell a product or strategy, you need to be able to demonstrate that it is both practical and high margin. The most important concepts to grasp are “how to measure profitability, EBITDA, operating income, revenue, and operating expenses,” he says. Related Video. Play with numbers.

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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

The certificates of deposits will push banks closer to an operating environment in which rates are deregulated and are also aimed at improving the circulation of cash in the country’s interbank market. These are the big issues, hinted at by the current hiatus in China’s money markets.

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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. This is where selling the data directly, building it into products and services, using it as input for analytics, and making better decisions come to the fore. Except for very few, this hasn’t happened.

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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commercial banking and investment banking functions have been separated by law – these restrictions have since been repealed and larger banks tend to take on capital markets operations due to the complimentary nature of the businesses.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

They grow faster, make more money, and are more valued than companies organized around products and services. A production process turns inputs into outputs and distributes them through a tightly controlled supply chain. Value is in the products and services themselves. Think of E as Enterprise Value. Financial capital.