Under Boards’ Watch, How CFOs Play Earnings Season
As another earnings season arrives, focus seems to be turning not just to results — but to the role of the CFO. And much of …
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New Key to Proper Brand Management: Millennials As the New Mad Men
While the digital age has enhanced a brand’s ability to expose itself to the world, inconsistencies in how brands are perceived by consumers, employees and …
Private Equity in 2015: Survival of the Fittest
There were $29 billion in private equity deals in the first quarter of 2015, according to the Financial Times. This is the lowest level since 2009 …
Working Capital Conversations: Global Corporate Divestment Study with Paul Hammes, Ernst & Young
Working Capital Conversations: Leading thinkers, practitioners and experts discuss the ideas that drive global business. At a time when many of the large or publicly-held companies …
Is Focus on Low-Wage Workers ‘The New Business Strategy’?
Co.Exist sees a trend and asks: “Can Treating Low-Wage Workers Well Become The Hot New Business Strategy?” The piece notes that “Aetna is among the …
Global CFOs: Expect Wage Growth as Corporate Financial Outlook Has Improved
If there’s no such thing as a financial crystal ball (and there’s not), then a global survey of CFOs just might be the next best …
Davos Review: Global Economic Outlook
With the annual meeting of the 45th World Economic Forum — commonly known as Davos — having ended this weekend, here is a global roundup of …
Management Is Key to Productivity Boost
A recent study conducted by the McKinsey Global Institute found that “well-managed firms have higher productivity, market value, and growth, as well as a greater …
How ‘New Power’ Is Changing Business and Society
Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms explain the difference between old and new power in the latest issue of the Harvard Business Review. “Old power works …
A New Wave of Connected Products is Transforming Competition
Michael E. Porter and James E. Heppelmann write in the Harvard Business Review about a whole new class of smart connected products — “complex systems …