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Simple Ethics Rules for Better Risk Management

Harvard Business

For far too long, managing risk has been seen as an esoteric business function — designed to control losses and adhere to compliance standards. Many of these failures were either fueled by or lost in the byzantine maze that is the modern enterprise, which often breeds a combustible mix of indifference and short-termism.

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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.

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

Harvard Business

Accurately measuring enterprise value (EV) has never been more important or challenging. Failure to accurately quantify the enterprise value of data (EvD) may therefore woefully undervalue the importance of cyber-security investments, as well as the face values typically applied to cyber insurance policies.

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5 Ways Your Data Strategy Can Fail

Harvard Business

Paradoxically, “data” appear everywhere but on the balance sheet and income statement. Adding to complications, data, technology, and people are very different sorts of assets, requiring different management styles. Except for very few, this hasn’t happened. It takes a lot to succeed with data.

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

Harvard Business

See More Videos > See More Videos > Tackle the balance sheet. “Take an interest in the balance sheet and then do the due diligence to understand it,” he says. Experiment with the numbers on your organization’s balance sheet by going through a series of “what if?”

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What the Companies That Predict the Future Do Differently

Harvard Business

Such knowledge does not come easily, but the increasing density of digital information, deeper automated connections across companies, and increased storage and computing power create new options for enterprise leaders. The practice of management itself must evolve for this capability to emerge.

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Germany’s Midsize Manufacturers Outperform Its Industrial Giants

Harvard Business

They belong to a class of small-to-medium German enterprises that are outperforming the country’s top public companies. Most of these companies are private and don’t publish their balance sheets. Mittelstand managers give their workers a great deal of their time. They pay major attention to the workplace.