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How to Evaluate, Manage, and Strengthen Your Resilience

Harvard Business

Strewn about the table were probably the tools of your trade: reams of data, balance sheets and P&Ls. Managers understand that clear-eyed analysis — both quantitative and qualitative — is the key to building a resilient business. We can’t just print resilience the way countries print money.

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

Harvard Business

For example, at the end of its 2015 fiscal year, Apple’s balance sheet stated tangible assets of $290 billion as a contribution to its annual revenues, with approximately $141 billion worth of intangible assets — a combination of intellectual capital, brand equity, and (investor and consumer) goodwill.

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5 Ways to Increase Your Cross-Selling

Harvard Business

The company does deep data mining through multiple sources to spot signature events in customers’ lives. Those events trigger USAA to contact the customer at just the right time, with just the right offer, such as auto insurance when a customer’s daughter is about to turn 16. Take a balance-sheet view.

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We Need to Approach AI Risks Like We Do Natural Disasters

Harvard Business

Nor have they set up safety and security protocols for potential Black Swan AI events. Managers have to figure out their higher and lower risk intelligent device vulnerabilities, add in redundant systems, and potentially set up the AI equivalent of tsunami early-warning systems. Insight Center. The Risks and Rewards of AI.

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Maximum Overweight High Yield?

MishTalk

Corporate balance sheets are in excellent shape, and there is still an ample cash cushion available to fund operations in the event of a growth setback. Mike "Mish" Shedlock [link] Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management.

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Start of a Global Currency Crisis?

MishTalk

Of course the situation was different in that many of the countries hit by the crisis had their currencies pegged to the dollar at the time, but the point remains that a weakening yen preceded the event. The balance sheet of the government, the banks and households are quite well protected against market volatility.”

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ECB's €40bn Stimulus Gamble: ECB Pulls Out Bazooka, Cuts Rates, Buys Assets; Will this Stimulate Lending?

MishTalk

The newly decided measures, together with the targeted longer-term refinancing operations which will be conducted in two weeks, will have a sizeable impact on our balance sheet. Greece was a one-time event, until Cyprus came along. Then it became a two-time event. Meanwhile, yield of the US 10-Year treasury is 2.45%.

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