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Recommended Resource – Built to Sell

Strategy Driven

These include: offering products and services employees or technologies can deliver in the owner’s absence. StrategyDriven Contributors have long warned against the practice of employing ‘working managers.’ ’ (See StrategyDriven Warning Flag – Working Managers.) Book value is not guaranteed.

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Tips for Conducting Business Across Continents

Strategy Driven

Managing one location has it's own challenges like keeping up with all of your departments including Human Resources, sales, marketing and the like. With the development of modern business management solutions, it is easier than ever to stay connected with your teams all over the world. Do global business but act local.

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A Refresher on Return on Assets and Return on Equity

Harvard Business Review

I talked with Joe Knight, author of the HBR TOOLS: Return on Investment and co-founder and owner of www.business-literacy.com , to learn more about these ratios and how managers can use them. Technology companies have very few assets so they’ll often have high ROAs. Let’s start with return on assets. Further Reading.

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A Refresher on Debt-to-Equity Ratio

Harvard Business Review

You take your company’s total liabilities (what it owes others) and divide it by equity (this is the company’s book value or its assets minus its liabilities). But if it’s too low, it’s a sign that your company is over-relying on equity to finance your business, which can be costly and inefficient.

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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.