article thumbnail

How to Keep Cyberattacks from Tanking Your Balance Sheet

Harvard Business

The threat of cyberattacks — and potential impact on corporate balance sheets — is only expected to grow. Technological advances in areas such as generative AI and automation have strengthened threat actors, leading to new and evolving threats.

article thumbnail

How Business Can Build and Maintain Trust

Harvard Business

Businesses must manage it as carefully as they do their balance sheets. Trust is fragile.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

It’s Not “Time Management.” It’s Lean.

Markovitz Consulting

In the space of two weeks, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both ran articles on the productivity benefits of reduced work hours. The evidence from the experiments run by the companies in these articles indicates that it’s a fantasy to pretend that an additional eight or 15 hours of work per week will be highly productive.

article thumbnail

Cash Flow Relief for Independent Consultants: the CARES Act & Other Ideas

Successful Independent Consulting

This article explains your options for cash-flow relief, whether you need it immediately or in the near future, and how to get it. I’ve participated in two webinars and read countless articles to understand it. For us as consultants, the effects are likely to be more gradual but our income will likely be affected.

Cash Flow 248
article thumbnail

New Tools! More Pure Bank Profit!

MishTalk

Inquiring minds are monitoring the Fed''s Balance Sheet. One more week like this and the FED balance sheet will be $1 trillion more than last year at this time. Three rounds of so-called quantitative easing have enlarged the Fed’s balance sheet to almost $3.8 click on chart for sharper image.

Banking 73
article thumbnail

What If Companies Managed People as Carefully as They Manage Money?

Harvard Business

Today’s executives spend a lot of time managing the balance sheet, despite the fact that it doesn’t represent their company’s scarcest resource. Vincent Tsui for HBR. Financial capital is relatively abundant and cheap. This tour-of-duty approach helped attract and retain entrepreneurial employees.

article thumbnail

Your Company Needs a More-Radical Board of Directors

Harvard Business

My guess is that while a poor balance sheet might cause restless sleep, it’s the thought of an incorrectly reported balance sheet that brings on night terrors. What’s a typical independent director’s worst nightmare? It’s not surprising.

Company 126