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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance by Tim Koller. While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Discusses the four foundational principles of corporate finance.

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What Investment Bankers Can Learn From Stand-Up Comedians

Harvard Business Review

Look at headlining comics Jim Norton and Robert Kelly. Rather, I see three traits in successful comedians that i-bankers should seek to emulate: brutal honesty, vulnerability, and allowing different voices to be heard. Brutal honesty. How does this trait manifest in the comedy world?

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Grassroots Leadership through Social Power

Coaching Tip

1 national infrastructure priority," says Roy Norton, the nation's consul general in Detroit. The Moroun family certainly has an influential voice in the State of Michigan, given it contributed $565,000 to state candidates for the 2010 election, according to campaign finance records. "This is Canada's No.

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Podcast: After Hours

Harvard Business Review

In this episode, Youngme talks to her friend and colleague, Professor Mike Norton, about how to spend money to create happiness. Desai is the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School and a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is the author of The Wisdom of Finance. Download this podcast.