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Five Ways to Build Your Wealth: A Guide

Strategy Driven

When creating a diversified portfolio, it’s important to consider your risk tolerance and investment goals. Invest in bonds of various types, credit ratings , and maturities. It’s important to regularly review and rebalance your portfolio to ensure it continues aligning with your investment goals and risk tolerance.

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Having Financial Freedom And Being Realistic

Strategy Driven

You may have had good intentions and goals, especially when it came to your finances, but found yourself in a situation where you have struggled with less pay or no work at all. Whatever your goal may be, there can be actionable steps you can take now to help you achieve the goal. You are not alone.

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Creating a New Approach to Engineering and Innovation at Hitachi Metals - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HITACHI METALS, LTD.

Harvard Business Review

The company is a member of the Hitachi Group, listed on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and enjoys an A+ credit rating and stable outlook from Ratings & Investment Information Inc. The goal is to establish an “intelligent community” including clients and other companies to find new opportunities.

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Why Leaders Need to Think More Like Professional Gamblers

Leading Blog

Their key performance metric became “expected goals” for and against a team, based on the quality and quantity of chances created during a match. While their job may have been setting or applying strict credit policies in the past, they may now start to wonder whether their traditional credit rating models are still effective.

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Private Equity Can Make Firms More Innovative

Harvard Business Review

Second, the main goal of PE investors is to increase a firm’s value so that it can be sold for profit. Suffice it to say that a 2016 Mitt Romney campaign isn’t being championed on Wall Street. PE’s proponents say this disparaging view doesn’t add up. First, the effects on employment are mixed.

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7 Ways to Improve Operations Without Sacrificing Worker Safety

Harvard Business Review

Famously, BP executives were on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig the night before that horrific explosion, giving its workers an award for their low injury rate. That said, you should set concrete goals for injury rates at your company. Focus on leading indicators.

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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – Negotiations and the Divided Government

Strategy Driven

The second objective of all three parties was the avoidance of a credit rating downgrade. At the time (prior to the actual downgrade), the threat of a credit downgrade forced all three parties to the negotiating table. The negotiations, therefore, center on the approach to achieving these goals.