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Equity Research: Understanding the Role of Stock Analysts

Tom Spencer

They also use financial ratios and other metrics to assess a company’s financial health and compare it to its peers. This may include writing research reports, giving presentations, and participating in conference calls or meetings. Zuhair Imaduddin is an Innovation Development Analyst at JPMorgan Chase.

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

Harvard Business

If you’re not a numbers person, finance is daunting. But having a grasp of terms like EBITDA and net present value are important no matter where you sit on the org chart. Stop avoiding finance because you’re afraid of numbers. Think of it this way, “Finance is the way businesses keep score.

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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

Local executives gave presentations to him on a stage in an auditorium setting. All lights were off except a spotlight on the presenting manager and the CEO’s reading light. A finance executive said this of the decades-old corporate attitude, “We are GM. CEOs focus on data, facts, figures, and metrics.

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Project Management Maturity Models: A Basis for Reaching Your Organization’s Business Success

Epicflow

Assessment presents methods, processes, and procedures that a company can use to self-assess its maturity. . The first dimension present the 10 Knowledge Areas defined in the PMBOK Guide. At this level, there aren’t any established project management practices or standards; documentation and metrics are ad hoc.

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HR Guide to Company Culture: 5 Tangible Leverage Points

LSA Global

An HR Guide to Company Culture and Your Organizational DNA When it comes to people and organizational dynamics, the concept of company culture can seem nebulous and less vital when compared company strategies, systems, people, or finances. The truth is that different companies do things and present themselves differently.

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The Top 8 Undergrad Consulting Majors

Management Consulted

Mechanical Engineering is the most operationally focused, in contrast to say Civil Engineering, where you are more focused on ideas such as land use instead of metrics and modeling. To be specific, a degree in finance shows that you not only know the numbers, but can communicate them in a way that is easy to understand.

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3 Steps to Pivot Your Sales Strategy During a Crisis

LSA Global

First, pull a cross-functional team together from sales, marketing, pricing, finance, legal, product development, and service to identify how to best stabilize, forecast, and optimize strategic accounts and the sales pipeline in the next 30 days. The crisis will eventually end.

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