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Easy Initiatives to Improve Your Office’s Morale

Strategy Driven

Things like gym memberships, help with travel, and many other discounts are all greatly appreciated as part of a payment package from a company. It should be a straightforward and easy task to make it part of your admin tasks and company operations. Add a Benefits Program. Organise Out-of-Office Activities.

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A Refresher on Cost of Capital

Harvard Business Review

There are two groups of people who may put up the capital needed to run a business: investors who purchase stock and debt holders who buy bonds or issues loans to the company. You may be wondering if this is the same as discount rate and the terms are sometimes used interchangeably, explains Knight. or 11% as the discount rate.

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Solving the Debt Crisis May Be Europe's Biggest Step Forward

Harvard Business Review

Nevertheless, the markets have discounted every announcement and have continued to operate in a state of quasi-panic, as they move at a different speed than the political activities. But the ECB's most powerful weapon — intervening in the bond market — is still locked away. It is easy to take a grim view.

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How Chinese Subsidies Changed the World

Harvard Business Review

Last week, LDK Solar , a struggling Chinese manufacturer of solar wafers and panels, announced that it had missed $24 million in bond payments. This news followed the bankruptcy in March of Wuxi Suntech , the main operating subsidiary of the world''s largest maker of solar panels, after it defaulted on a $541 million bond payment.

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The Last Days of Pushing on a String

Harvard Business Review

beyond creating an easy money situation through reduction of discount rates, there is very little, if anything, that the reserve organization can do to bring about recovery.". were loan rates while in Europe it was government bond rates that were the target. In neither case did these policies work well.

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5 Ways the Best Companies Close the Strategy-Execution Gap

Harvard Business Review

Webvan was forced to cease operations by 2001. Think of strategy as a portfolio of options, not bonds. The traditional plan-then-do model treats the value of any strategy like a bond. When volatility is high, however, strategic decisions should be treated more like call options.

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5 Things Every Modern Entrepreneur Needs

Strategy Driven

Operating with transparency used to be a luxury versus a necessity but, now, it’s quite mandatory. If you’re a service company and a client is at the end of their agreement, offer a specific service at a discount or another deliverable with a high perceived value. Transparency. This principle can be applied in every business.