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

Harvard Business Review

If you’re not a numbers person, finance is daunting. But having a grasp of terms like EBITDA and net present value are important no matter where you sit on the org chart. Stop avoiding finance because you’re afraid of numbers. Think of it this way, “Finance is the way businesses keep score.

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Why Quants Should Manage Your Supply Chain Risk

Harvard Business Review

Because the fact that value is not guaranteed in the future lessens value in the present. This reduction in value is present and represents a cost today , not tomorrow. This is a concept fundamental to finance but that, for some reason, has not migrated into supply chain risk management.