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What is a Healthy Company?

Markovitz Consulting

Similarly, one of the primary drivers of GE’s fall from grace was the reckless pursuit of profits from its financing operations. For example , in Greenville, South Carolina, GE, Michelin, BMW, Duke Energy, and many other companies have helped create the A.J. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering.

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Blockchain Could Make the Insurance Industry Much More Transparent

Harvard Business

In effect, they all had skin in the game, which remains one of the most elusive elements of modern finance. It breeds indifference, which in turn breeds a yawning gap between underwriters, whose balance sheets absorb risk (the risk takers), and customers, whose enterprises create risks (the risk makers). For example, in the U.S.

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The Globalization Backlash Is Reverberating Through Boardrooms

Harvard Business

As a practical matter, for example, these changes in the global policy regime are forcing multinational corporations to scale back and sell parts of their international operations. Meanwhile the Institute of International Finance forecasted net capital flows for emerging markets in 2015 would be negative for the first time since 1988.

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Stop Focusing on Profitability and Go for Growth

Harvard Business

Bain & Company’s Macro Trends Group carefully analyzed the global balance sheet and found that the world is awash in money. Global capital balances more than doubled between 1990 and 2010 — from $220 trillion (about 6.5 So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. times global GDP).

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Why Apple Is Getting into the Energy Business

Harvard Business

For example, a very small portion of the charge in an electric vehicle’s battery could be sold back to the power company when it needs an extra bit of power at the spot where the vehicle happens to be connected for charging. GW of renewable energy since the beginning of 2015, enough to power about half the state of Connecticut.

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European Banks Dump Massive Amounts of Subordinated Debt on Investors

MishTalk

The figures follow a deal agreed by European regulators earlier this month that will bring in so-called bail-in rules for senior bondholders from 2016, two years earlier than envisaged by finance ministers in their common position agreed in June. Mezzanine debt is another example of subordinated debt. Consider asset-backed securities.

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Overcoming Data Collection Challenges in Consulting

Tom Spencer

We repeated our request a week later, but they only provided a balance sheet from the previous year. For example, instead of asking for the average payroll for each department over time, ask for a representative current salary of an employee in each department: sales, operations, finance.

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