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Why You Should Look At People Strategy As You Would A New Product Line

Chief Executive

In 2014, I began consulting HR executives and became incredibly intrigued by this world. Specifically, I studied our financial statements, digging deeply into how we made money, how we managed our balance sheet/cash, and how we are forecasting growth. A board meeting turned epiphany.

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

Harvard Business Review

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. ” Focus on key metrics. Boosting your financial expertise requires figuring out the metrics by which your company measures success.

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Why Data Breaches Don’t Hurt Stock Prices

Harvard Business Review

In the third quarter of 2014, Home Depot showed a 21% increase in earnings per share. Sears announced in October 2014 that one of its companies, Kmart, was the target of a data security breach and that credit/debit cards and personal information were compromised by hackers. In the beginning of October, 2014, the largest U.S.

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4 Types of Activist Investors and How to Spot Them

Harvard Business Review

According to Schulte, Roth & Zabel’s Activist Investing 2015 Annual Review, a total of 344 companies worldwide were subjected to activist demands in 2014, up 18% from the 291 recorded in 2013. With two separate balance sheets, management could plan around the risk variables (i.e. Over the last three years the U.S.