The Impact of Globalization on Business

I have traveled to more than 22 countries and have had the opportunity to transact business in various parts of Asia, the Middle East, Canada, Central, and Latin America, Russia, and former Eastern Block countries, India, and the European Community. Conducting business on a global basis has always been of great personal interest to me, and it has also been both a pleasurable and financially…

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The Typical Approach to Capital Formation is often the Wrong Approach

The architecture of your corporate capital formation strategy should be engineered by design and should not be something that evolves by default over time. However all too common is the enterprise that organizes itself improperly out of the gate by making the wrong choice of entity, issuing the wrong type, class, and amount of stock or member units, seeking equity investments either from the…

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About ready to promote your CFO into an operating or strategy role? You may want to think twice

When the Chief Executive Officer is looking to fill a senior operating or strategy position it is common to consider the possibility of promoting the Chief Financial Officer into that role. After all CFO's are senior executives who typically exhibit sound judgment and are used to being charged with great levels of corporate and fiscal responsibility. From the CFO's side of the equation, their…

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