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Bank Valuation: Understanding Key Ratios and Metrics

Tom Spencer

Efficiency ratio The efficiency ratio measures effective cost management and operational efficiency, and is defined as non-interest expenses divided by revenue. Net interest income (which is generally balance sheet driven) declined to approximately 50% of revenues in recent years from representing almost 80% of revenues in 1980.

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

Harvard Business

Definitions for what constitutes EvD, and methodologies to calculate its value, remain in their infancy. In the same way that banks must constantly balance assets and liabilities, data-laden firms need to move from cyber-defense and fire-fighting toward more proactive management of what could prove to be their most important asset.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. Comstock is out.