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Guidance is Good, Overpriced Shares a Disaster

Harvard Business Review

Baruch Lev teaches accounting and finance at NYU's Stern School of Business. BL: A misconception: Dealing with funds providers is part and parcel of running the company. All in all, options are an important compensation tool, particularly for high-growth and early-stage firms strapped for cash.

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Mindfulness Can Improve Strategy, Too

Harvard Business Review

Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Capital has likewise used mindfulness not only as a tool for increasing productivity but also enhancing situational awareness as a strategist. Visualize positive outcomes : As Daniel Goleman argues , positivity is part and parcel of focused attention.

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How the Insurance Industry Can Push Us to Prepare for Climate Change

Harvard Business Review

But we now see insurers exploiting geographically refined data to more precisely estimate land parcel risk. Until recently, though, property insurance has lagged in its use of data to engage in price differentiation.

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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

Drawing on a powerful tool from the finance world, they conceived of those collections operating as portfolios — each with a specific business objective and time horizon. Those three business portfolios are: The future state portfolio.