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The Management of Financial Risks in Private Equity Funds
The management of financial risks in private equity (PE) funds aims to protect the internal rate of return (IRR) expected from investment in PCs due to unexpected variations in interest rates and exchange rates. The protection of the IRR requires a coordinated intervention on EBITDA, the EV/EBITDA multiple, and NFP.#The concrete possibility of planning and implementing financial risk management depends ...
The Benefits of Algorithms in Business Organization
Organizations must increasingly invest in tools and projects that allow for constructing algorithms necessary for the effective management of HR processes. Data is available through a great variety of sources: if combined and analyzed, it can create a rich and more detailed understanding of what employees want and how they can act to improve their performance. The human resources department is an ...
Training in Companies is Increasingly Attractive
A survey conducted by SDA Bocconi sheds light on the commitment and efforts made by companies to support learning, from the perspective of employees .
Newspapers Searching for New Business Models
From their birth, newspapers have based their existence essentially on the same business model, founded on the sale of copies and advertising. This model, as we know, began to collapse more than a decade ago, and except in some rare cases, mostly abroad, an alternative has not yet been found. According to the data from ADS-Accertamenti Diffusione Stampa, from November 2013 to November 2019, the ...
Five Key Steps to Improve Management of Innovation
There are many organizations that must focus on innovation to survive and prosper. Innovation is not just one thing: organizations therefore need to develop specific innovation strategies based on their current situation and where they want to be in the future. Not only does a conceptual and logical link exist between a somewhat abstract concept of "innovation strategy" and the more concrete innovation ...
Advanced Analytics: What Key Advantages for Which Companies
The rapid and incessant evolution of markets induces businesses to adopt increasingly advanced technologies to adequately respond to the needs of consumers and thus to remain competitive. Through the elaboration of accurate and increasingly reliable predictions, advanced analytics provides a conspicuous contribution to company decision-making processes, ensuring that managers have the possibility ...
Supply Chain Finance for the Management of Working Capital
Supply chain finance (SCF) is the set of solutions able to exploit the strong points of a supply chain in order to optimize working capital and cash flow. The use of this solution often leads to an increase of liquidity and profitability along the supply chain, and to positive spillover effects in terms of trust and commitment among the partners of the chain. The main goals pursued by companies are ...
New and Old Market Logics in the Hyperconnected Era
In the current hyperconnected world, the primary sources of value are data and communication, elements that businesses must know how to transform into information and relationships of trust, i.e. into sustainable economic value.#Through the construction of an ecosystem of complementary and interconnected solutions, businesses can generate "network externalities" and "switching costs" able to consolidate ...
Scaling Up Is the True Obstacle for Start-ups
One of the most important tasks for an entrepreneur is to bring a company from the start-up phase to the subsequent scale-up phase. The key factor is reaching what is called the "product-market fit," i.e. the validation of the business model. The scale-up of a company requires at least three elements: a growing number of leaders able to predict the competition and trends in the market and to delegate ...
How and Why to Defend our Coolness
“Cool” and “coolness” are by definition evasive and liquid concepts. They change as a function of time, geography, aesthetic canons, and transnational or global subcultures. All of these elements tend to give the perception of what is cool an apparently unpredictable dynamism, and thus for decades now have been the subject of specialist analysis aimed at explaining the fundamental components ...