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Ensuring your business’s data integrity empowers profitable business decisions

Strategy Driven

Breaches of data integrity, or BDIs, can damage a company’s reputation, demographic, product or service, or what’s worse, and often the outcome, finances. The good news is, new technologies are enabling a seamless data migration process and ensuring the structure of the data is consistent in the manner it needs to be maintained and accessed.

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A Refresher on Return on Assets and Return on Equity

Harvard Business Review

Technology companies have very few assets so they’ll often have high ROAs. ROE, on the other hand, is more relevant to the executive suite than an operations manager, who has little influence over how much equity and debt the company has. “The true value is the market cap of a company’s stock,” says Knight.

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Research: CEOs with Diverse Networks Create Higher Firm Value

Harvard Business Review

For example, firms with better-connected CEOs can obtain cheaper financing , and firms with well-connected board directors see better performance. Our study , published in the Journal of Corporate Finance, found that CEOs with strong connections to people of different demographic backgrounds and skill sets create higher firm value.