Traditionally being green has been seen as increasing costs. The stereotypical financial manager has seen environmentalism and carbon credits as increasing costs over the longer-term and as reducing margins. How should financial managers address these issues now in an age of ultra-high energy costs, new programs for carbon credits and of the triple bottom line? ...[ Read More ]

Crises the size and extent of the current oil crisis do not occur often. When they do they disrupt existing business models of many if not most companies, as is happening now. These changes will result in many companies failing. Many will founder. Some will figure out how to address the crisis because they have seen it as an opportunity.  ...[ Read More ]

If you want to boil a frog as the saying goes you put it into cold water and raise the temperature slowly for if you throw a cold frog into hot water it will leap out. The US dollar is such an animal and over the last few years there has been some speculation on the deprecating value of the dollar but such talk until lately seems to have been background noise.   Like our boiled frog, until the temperature raises too high no one notices, but in the last five years the US dollar has depreciated against the Euro by 35%. ...[ Read More ]

The search for new skills is difficult because of the space and time offered in the SMB model of work. In this case, the manager plays several roles simultaneously and thus does not have a substitute for that spent time, fundamental, which would be available searching for new solutions. Only the technology can help break this factor and then the second barrier appears: resources. 

Governor Kevin Warsh

At the New York University School of Law Global Economic Policy Forum, New York, New York

April 14, 2008

In the case of many companies determining the intrinsic value of a business is difficult for experienced professionals, let along the average investor. This is largely the result of what are termed information asymmetries - when one party in a transaction knows more than the other. These endure in spite of the progress that has been made in revisiting old accounting orthodoxies or the efforts made to control more vigorously certain types of interaction between actors in the capital markets. ...[ Read More ]

This article shows how a new innovation in financial management  – assessment and development of business acumen in managers - promises to revolutionize selection and development of financial managers. In the light of the financial crises sweeping through most economies, the issue of business acumen is now taking becoming an issue of critical importance that CFOs simply cannot ignore. ...[ Read More ]

Real gross domestic product grew 3.9 percent in the third quarter of 2007, much faster than anticipated and comparable to second quarter growth. ...[ Read More ]

 - There are different ways you can invest internationally: through mutual funds, Depositary Receipts or ADRs, exchange-traded funds, U.S.-traded foreign stocks, or direct investments in foreign markets. ...[ Read More ]

My topic this evening is the implications of ongoing global economic integration "globalization" for short--for U.S. monetary policy. At the broadest level, globalization influences the conduct of monetary policy through its powerful effects on the economic and financial environment in which monetary policy must operate. ...[ Read More ]