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How the Great Recession Changed Banking

Harvard Business

That strengthened investment banks’ balance sheets by forcing them to scale back and to change the nature of the risks they take. As a result, their balance sheets are half as large on a risk-adjusted basis, and the capital they hold against trading positions has doubled over the past decade, our research shows.

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

Harvard Business

In June 2017 the board “retired” Immelt and promoted John Flannery to CEO. So far in 2017, GE is the worst-performing stock on the Dow Jones Industrial Average. In the case of P&G, 40% of its stock was owned by small investors, helping the company fight off a 2017 proxy battle with Trian.). Then it wasn’t.

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Midsize Cities Are Entrepreneurship’s Real Test

Harvard Business

For us, growth events mean simply concrete, directly observable achievements that foreshadow future success: for example, new customer contracts, initial export sales, new bank or equity financings, expanded production capacity, or expanded people platforms (e.g. The average participant in the first cohort has actually doubled its sales.

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Shockingly Bad Fiscal Health of Chicago (and the Financial Engineering Chicago Uses to Hide that Fact)

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Among other things, she handles the structuring and sale of bonds for schools across the state. It is not a balance sheet test, but a cash flow test. That’s more than the state’s total projected general-fund spending in fiscal years 2016, 2017 and 2018 – combined. First let''s go over Culpepper''s background.