Michael Pfeffer, founder and managing director at Post Capital Partners, describes various sales options for business owners in this month’s “New York Enterprise Report.” In a Management Buyout, the business owner sells the company to the existing management team, simplifying the due diligence process. However raising the necessary capital may be a challenge for the […]
The probability of a venture capital firm investing in a start-up business now is far less than it would have been in 1999, reports “INC.” Magazine. Ironically, this is partly due to the glut of capital available that venture capital funds are trying to invest, which is pushing them to do bigger deals, sums of […]
A special Human Capital edition of “CFO” magazine describes how General Mills has upgraded its training for financial professionals since the acquisition of Pillsbury in 2001, and with the full support of CFO James Lawrence, who was hired in 1998. The company’s finance leaders identified the four most important focus areas: new-hire training and orientation, […]
In this excerpt from the new book “Financial Intelligence,” the authors tell HBS Working Knowledge that “it is not enough to give a one-time training course or hand out an instruction book and expect everyone to be enlightened.” Repetition and engagement are both critical if financial literacy is going to become part of a company’s […]
The 2/13/06 issue of “BusinessWeek” describes how NetSuite and other products that run $1,000 to $2,000 per user have made dashboards more affordable than in the past for small business owners. Those thinking about implementing a dashboard for their business for the first time should: 1) start slowly, 2) pick the right information, 3) have […]
The Commerce Department determined that Americans spent more than they earned for the seventh straight month in November, 2005, increasing the chance that the US will have a negative savings rate for 2005 as a whole, Kevin Lansing, an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank in San Francisco, recently told the San Francisco Gate newspaper. […]
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