The European Central Bank’s second and final 3-year, long-term refinancing operation has come and gone and while analysts are finalizing their bets on the take-up, they generally agree on one thing: The optimism is over.
Accounting
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Are Dashboards Necessary?
Why Are Dashboards Necessary? In essence, dashboards serve a crucial purpose in connecting executives...
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SEC Seen Mulling Weaker Role for FASB
A subtle shift in word usage yesterday by James Kroeker, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s...
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Are Accountants Homo Accounticus?
In biology there is an evolution of humans that has in earlier stages Australopithecus, then...
- The Problem with the Profit Motive in Finance
- The New Talent Mix
- Who is Raymond Panko… and why should you care?
Biz Intelligence
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How Smart Is Business Intelligence?
Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? Well, it probably is. “Strategies,” cautioned...
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Semantic layer technology reduces value of BI investments
A semantic layer will be able to create technically sophisticated SQL and in many instances may...
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What Sabermetrics and Moneyball Can Teach Us about Predictive Analytics
Of course, La Russa, a former Oakland A’s manager and a baseball traditionalist, did not stop...
- Are you ready for the era of ‘big data’?
- BI among top IT priorities in 2012
- The Emergence of Business Analysts as Leaders
Economy
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The LTRO Bubble Has Popped, And Europe Is About To Find Itself In A World Of Trouble
The European Central Bank’s second and final 3-year, long-term refinancing operation has come...
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Taking Vietnam’s economy to the next level
Vietnam has benefited from a program of internal restructuring, a transition from the agricultural...
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Will China Hit a Speed Bump?
We’ve gotten used to the rise and rise of China. Every year for the last three decades, it...
- Private Jets Fly Into Southeast Asia
- Zakaria: The savior of Europe
- Here’s The REAL Reason Gasoline Prices Have Been Surging In The US
Finance
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How to Strengthen Risk Management, Candidly Speaking
Organizational cultures that lack candor, Ferrazzi Greenlight CEO Keith Farrazzi tells us, endure...
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What is “Finance Transformation”?
Research confirms that most people want their finance department to take a more strategic role in...
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Here’s How Much JPMorgan Makes Every Time It Makes A Trade
Here’s a cool chart from JPMorgan’s investor day last week. It shows how much JPMorgan...
- A History on Financial Crashes and Bubble Bursts: Part 1
- Are Dashboards Necessary?
- SEC Seen Mulling Weaker Role for FASB
Management
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Just Do It.
It’s usually pretty easy to make people happy. After donating our services to a local fundraiser,...
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Don’t Be a Burnout Boss
Unless you’re in the psychic mind-reading business, the only way your employees are going...
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What Women Want in Their Leaders
In her first week as Managing Director of the IMF, Christine Lagarde spoke for the greater inclusion...
- Meetings can make you, uh, stupid
- Stopping Sleepiness: The Search for Biomarkers That Flag Fatigue Before We Know We’re Impaired
- IBM’s New CEO Is Earning Less Than Her Peers
Strategy
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Figuring Out How to Attract New Business
A creative director at our agency, Taylor, is also in charge of our intern program. He recently...
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This Is Generation Flux: Meet The Pioneers Of The New (And Chaotic) Frontier Of Business
In high school, Patil got kicked out of math class for being disruptive. He graduated only by persuading...
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Culture Vs. Strategy Is A False Choice
A strong culture is important, and for all the reasons Parr mentions: employee engagement, alignment,...
- New Project? Don’t Analyze—Act
- How Smart Is Business Intelligence?
- Managing the business risks of open innovation
Tech
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Why User Experience Is Critical To Customer Relationships
But even in this era of engagement and “two-way” conversations, the reality is that the relationship...
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Lab-grown meat is first step to artificial hamburger
At a major science meeting in Canada, Prof Mark Post said synthetic meat could reduce the environmental...
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Sharpening data center due diligence
Investments in data center capacity are a fact of business life. Businesses require new applications...
- BitTorrent Inventor’s New Goal Is ‘To Kill Off Television’
- Semantic layer technology reduces value of BI investments
- The Secret to Red Hat’s Billion-Dollar Success: Everyone’s The Boss
FYI
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The 10 Happiest States in America
For the third straight year, Hawaii holds onto its title as the happiest state in America according...
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8 Qualities of Remarkable Employees
A few hit the next level. Some employees are remarkable, possessing qualities that may not appear...
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The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies- 41: Kickstarter
HEADQUARTERS San Jose WEBSITE https://www.paypal.com/ TWITTER @paypal FOR CONNECTING CREATIVES WITH...
- The 10 Most Miserable States In America
- The Shocking Statistic About Psychopaths On Wall Street
- The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies- 42: SoundCloud
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FYI
The 10 Happiest States in America
Take a guess at which state ranks “happiest” overall? The nationwide survey is based on daily interviews with U.S. adults from January to December 2011. The Index is an average of six categories: life evaluation, emotional health, work environment, healthy behaviors, and physical health.
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FYI
8 Qualities of Remarkable Employees
Forget good to great. Here’s what makes a great employee remarkable.
Great employees are reliable, dependable, proactive, diligent, great leaders and great followers… they possess a wide range of easily-defined—but hard to find—qualities.
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Finance Risk Management
How to Strengthen Risk Management, Candidly Speaking
Organizational cultures that lack candor, Ferrazzi Greenlight CEO Keith Farrazzi tells us, endure longer cycle times, slow decision-making, unnecessarily iterative discussions and below-average financial performance. Even worse, a lack of candor can dumb down a company’s risk intelligence and, in some cases, lead to catastrophe. In the January-February Harvard Business Review, Ferrazzi writes: “My team interviewed executives at six top banks to gauge their teams’ level of candor. We found that the teams that scored the lowest on candor saw the poorest [...]
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The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies- 41: Kickstarter
“Crap-I need to raise $5,000 really fast.” That’s not something one often hears from a woman immersed in the world of debutantes. But Maria White wasn’t making a documentary about typical southern belles. White’s film, The Debutante Hunters, follows a wild-hog-huntin’ gang of high-society ladies.
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FYI
The 10 Most Miserable States In America
High unemployment, poor access to basic necessities such as food, shelter and medicine, and rising obesity rates continue to plague many of America’s Southern states, according to the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index.
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The Shocking Statistic About Psychopaths On Wall Street
The March/April issue of the CFA Magazine has a fascinating article titled “The Financial Psychopath Next Door.”
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Economy Featured
The LTRO Bubble Has Popped, And Europe Is About To Find Itself In A World Of Trouble
The European Central Bank’s second and final 3-year, long-term refinancing operation has come and gone and while analysts are finalizing their bets on the take-up, they generally agree on one thing: The optimism is over.
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The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies- 42: SoundCloud
Text has Twitter. Video gets YouTube. But a social network for sound that isn’t just music?
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