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What Initial Coin Offerings Are, and Why VC Firms Care

Harvard Business Review

Then, via price dynamics determined by market supply and demand, the value is settled on by the network of participants, rather than by a central authority or government. As of March 2017, the market capitalization of the ether token was more than $4 billion.). Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

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Research Shows That Smaller M&A Deals Work Out Better

Harvard Business Review

Mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures make up one of those variables, provided they average at least one deal per year in a program that cumulatively amounts to more than 30% of a company’s market capitalization over 10 years, with no single deal being more than 30% of market cap. Take marketing giant WPP.

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What’s the Effect of Pro-LGBT Policies on Stock Price?

Harvard Business Review

Again, being bankers, the obvious first step was due diligence. These studies also found a correlation, but a less conclusive one, with increased worker creativity and innovation, improved organizational-citizenship behaviors, and – most on-target for us – improved stock prices.

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What’s the Effect of Pro-LGBT Policies on Stock Price?

Harvard Business Review

Again, being bankers, the obvious first step was due diligence. These studies also found a correlation, but a less conclusive one, with increased worker creativity and innovation, improved organizational-citizenship behaviors, and – most on-target for us – improved stock prices.