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Why Face-to-Face Meetings Make All the Difference

Harvard Business Review

The team consisted of an executive committee from Headquarters (comprised of the CEO, CFO, Head of Operations, Head of Business Analysis, and our Group Head of Sales), and then the General Manager of each subsidiary. These monthly "Group Exec" meetings took place at a different factory each month.

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How to Work Confidently with Numbers People

Harvard Business Review

“You need to have a sound baseline understanding of business analysis—including the four families of financial ratios and tools for calculating return on investment.” ” Davenport highly recommends also getting a solid grasp on the basics of regression analysis. That’s too many.