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M&A deals – benefits and drawbacks

Tom Spencer

Improved labor talent : expanding the labor pool from which the new, larger company can draw can aid in growth and development. If there are debts owed by each organization, then the M&A process may increase the total balance sheet debt of the combined company. Conclusion.

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Stop Focusing on Profitability and Go for Growth

Harvard Business

Bain & Company’s Macro Trends Group carefully analyzed the global balance sheet and found that the world is awash in money. Global capital balances more than doubled between 1990 and 2010 — from $220 trillion (about 6.5 So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. times global GDP).

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What You Should Know About Dodd-Frank and What Happens If It’s Rolled Back

Harvard Business

It’s also untrue because the requirement for more capital is about how banks fund their balance sheets, not the size of the balance sheet. ” On allocating talent between finance and the rest of the economy: “We have had a world in which there’s been a distortion.

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Midsize Cities Are Entrepreneurship’s Real Test

Harvard Business

Through a coordinated, systemic, prolonged intervention with dozens of institutions and thousands of individual participants, new growth of the local companies we trained has directly created over 1033 jobs, fueled by dozens of new private sector financings. strategic hires). day, scale-focused workshops and related activities.