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Investment Banking 101: Understanding the Industry

Tom Spencer

Sales and trading is another key area of investment banking that involves matching buyers and sellers of securities or buying and selling securities out of the bank’s own account in order to make a market. How would you value a company with negative historical cash flow? How do you calculate the cost of equity?

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Is It Time to Consider a Fixed Fee for Your Consulting Services?

Successful Independent Consulting

You know you’re going to have to interview each of the division heads and other functional leaders, but you can leverage the interview questions from the last assessment you did. Plus, you’ve developed a good system for interpreting interview data.

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Management Consulting

CaseInterview.com

They evaluate issues that the client is facing and help them develop action plans for improvement. Let’s say a company is looking to relocate to a new market. They may hire a consultant to advise on ideas for gaining market share. They may mix separate issues or expect that their previous strategies will work in a new market.

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Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation?

MishTalk

Minyanville Business and Market News. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation? Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market. Sitka Pacific. Recent Posts. Featured Links. Automatic Earth. Bay Area Real Estate Trends.

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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time.

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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business

Immediately after joining Nikon, he decided to interview some of them. He asked one former major investor for a reaction to the company’s prediction (accompanying poor quarterly results): “that the [current] market contraction will bottom out soon and our profits will improve.” What he heard was uncomfortable.

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The Simple Question That Can Make or Break a Startup

Harvard Business

And stitched into its origin story is a clue to why some products (and businesses) succeed in the market while most wither and die. They used a harsh phrase to describe this cause of failure: “no market need.” Test your marketing promise. To better leverage its foodie customer base, Yelp purchased Eat24.