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Salary Negotiation Tips for Executives

N2Growth Blog

Or the opportunity to join a board, consult, or become an interim executive at more competitive rates? Intermediaries, like executive search consultants, are experts at driving from offer to hire. For candidates, executive outplacement consultants offer dispassionate and helpful advice. Or a player in another industry?

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Which MBAs Make More: Consultants or Small-Business Owners?

Harvard Business Review

Also, as we explained in an earlier article , we believe that being an established CEO of a small firm involves much less angst than being a senior member of a consulting, investment banking, or private equity firm. million EBITDA company for 4x paying $6 million and using 50% debt financing.

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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business Review

But having a grasp of terms like EBITDA and net present value are important no matter where you sit on the org chart. ” Joe Knight, a partner and senior consultant at the Business Literacy Institute and the coauthor of Financial Intelligence , says that an absence of financial savvy is “career-limiting.”

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Publishing Is Not Dying

Harvard Business Review

Magazine consultant Jay McGill estimates that profit margins in the industry have dropped off from a stellar 20–25% to a more earthly, but still healthy, range of 12–15%, which is pretty close to the average for the S&P 500. Last year, News Corp’s newspaper division reported EBITDA of $795 million on $6.7 Aren’t they?

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The INs and OUTs of Business Literacy

HR Digest

Joe Knight, Principal Owner and Senior Consultant with the Business Literacy Institute. Joe Knight | Principal Owner and Senior Consultant with the Business Literacy Institute. Joe has also written toolkits for Harvard Business Press including the ROI Toolkit, Understanding EBITDA, and the Business Valuation Toolkit.

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How Do You Rank the World’s Best CEOs?

Harvard Business Review

It’s also why, since 2000, individual companies have consulted the Institute to gain a deeper understanding of how well they are regarded on non-financial metrics – and why. This is why Reputation Institute regularly surveys people around the world about their perceptions of companies, and produces a ranking on this score.

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Hiring Veterans Is Good Business. So Why Don't We Do It More Often?

Harvard Business Review

But consider this equally inscrutable language: The value is multiples of EBITDA, assuming the back-office cost synergy targets are achievable. Yet to our veterans it's clear — they know where they can get food, fuel, and ammunition. The military, of course, is known for its reliance on jargon and acronyms.

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