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Find Your Ideal Job and Build Your Dream Business

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By exploring the entrepreneurship maze you will quickly immerse yourself in all these functions, which will give you a better picture of the business itself, as well as an appreciation for the company that employees you. Often lenders expect borrowers to be fully collateralized.

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A Refresher on Debt-to-Equity Ratio

Harvard Business Review

When people hear “debt” they usually think of something to avoid — credit card bills and high interests rates, maybe even bankruptcy. But when you’re running a business, debt isn’t all bad. In fact, analysts and investors want companies to use debt smartly to fund their businesses.

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VC Stereotypes About Men and Women Aren’t Supported by Performance Data

Harvard Business Review

These stereotypical notions, which cast men as having traits better suited to starting successful companies, don’t hold up when compared with venture performance data from annual reports. ” “She is extremely cost aware — this is not how you grow a company.” That shows some guts to grow.” Risk-taking.

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A Refresher on Current Ratio

Harvard Business Review

To know whether a company is truly on the cusp of hitting a $0 balance in their accounts, you can’t simply look at the income statement. That’s where the current ratio comes in. One of the biggest of these expenses, for companies, is accrued payroll and vacation time. ” But the ratio can also be too high. .

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A Refresher on Price Elasticity

Harvard Business Review

In fact, determining price is one of the toughest things a marketer has to do, in large part because it has such a big impact on the company’s bottom line. Take for example, beef. This is the formula for price elasticity of demand: Let’s look at an example. How do companies use it? How is it calculated?

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What You Don’t Know About Sales Can Hurt Your Strategy

Harvard Business Review

My previous article emphasized how and why these links are broken in many companies.) Without that understanding of how sales hiring, incentives, organization, and training affect field behavior in your company, asset redeployment becomes an academic exercise that does not affect the actions of those using unproductive assets.

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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

Anyone would have concluded that allocating capital according to expected return on equity would be optimal for growth. The ability to do that rose to a new level in 1917, when General Motors was in financial difficulty and DuPont took a major position in the company. (GM Then banking regulations were imposed.

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