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Find Your Ideal Job and Build Your Dream Business

Leading Blog

Business Ownership Strengthens Your Employee Net Worth: In most positions you rarely get the opportunity to experience the functions associated with the roles of a Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Marketing Officer, as well as manage the day-to-day requirements for customer engagement and retention.

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Some Ideas To Help Accelerate Your SWOT Analysis

Six Disciplines

Marketing (company image, reputation, positioning, market share, growth). Products and Services (price, quality, Finances (stability, profitability, debt to equity ratio). Having trouble starting out your SWOT analysis? Consider exploring these key categories: Strengths and Weaknesses.

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Ideas To Help Accelerate Your SWOT Analysis

Six Disciplines

Marketing (company image, reputation, positioning, market share, growth). Products and Services (price, quality, Finances (stability, profitability, debt to equity ratio). Having trouble starting out your SWOT analysis? Consider exploring these key categories: Strengths and Weaknesses.

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The Microfinance Contagion Scenario

Harvard Business Review

Losses in AP will overwhelm many institutions' equity cushion. The average debt-to-equity ratio of the 10 largest MFIs in India is 7.06 , indicating an average 12% equity cushion. In a recent paper, Jonathan Morduch and Jonathan Conning explain the role of debt and equity financing in the microfinance industry.

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A Refresher on Price Elasticity

Harvard Business Review

In fact, determining price is one of the toughest things a marketer has to do, in large part because it has such a big impact on the company’s bottom line. As she explains in her “ Marketing Analysis Toolkit: Pricing and Profitability Analysis ,” there are five zones of elasticity. What is price elasticity?

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What You Don’t Know About Sales Can Hurt Your Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Smartly reducing assets devoted to activities that earn less than their cost of capital requires good links with evolving market realities. ( Isn’t that a function of risk parameters and the debt-to-equity ratio? My previous article emphasized how and why these links are broken in many companies.)

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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

Return-on-equity hurdles threaten them all. Conversely, why market cigarettes? In their pursuit of margin, marketers sought market power even to the point of monopoly, requiring antitrust laws to cry stop at the last moment of the end game. Second, an innovation should have the widest possible market.

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