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Private equity and investment banking experts share observations on what a distribution company owner can expect when preparing to sell a stake in the company, and how to prepare the business to attract potential buyers’ attention and maximize the price it can command.

Thomson Reuters QA Studio, powered by Palantir, provides easy and rapid financial time series analysis, multi-asset class portfolio simulation, factor testing, and other portfolio analytics.

Many breaches happen because of compromised privileged user accounts. Risks spread like wildfire in the dynamic traditional, virtualized and cloud environments common in enterprises today. One improperly authorized privileged account can cause widespread and irreparable damage to an organization’s infrastructure, intellectual property and brand equity, leading to sudden drops in market value, broad organizational disruption and costly compliance penalties. Effectively managing privileged access across your hybrid enterprise is an imperative to reducing security and compliance risks.

After its founding, Mediaocean evaluated 10 customer service vendors before choosing the Zendesk Support platform to manage its global support activities. Three years later, however, a private equity firm acquired a majority share of the company and mandated switching to an alternative platform. See why Mediaocean reverted back to Zendesk and how the company uses Zendesk to power their customer support needs.

In his latest paper, Tom Kelly offers real-world anecdotes from cloud implementations at a selection of more than 25 companies, from Fortune 500 to private equity-backed companies, showing examples on how the cloud provides fast- growing companies a scalable infrastructure that supports their growth while improving efficiency and reducing costs.

The critical trends that are reshaping the world of work are colliding with the changing demographic profile of the employees and shifting expectations of the work experience. Despite an uncertain future, there is optimism in the air. The events of 2016 and early 2017 have set a course of change that brings the promise of more equity and transparency and more accountable decision making. An overarching theme of Empowerment permeates how business leaders. HR professionals, and employees are viewing the world of work, both today and in the future.

Longi Engineering was engaged to assist a Private Equity Firm in implementing a SharePoint deal management system as an additional component to their existing on premise SharePoint server solution. The organization faced multiple challenges in that they did not possess an efficient technology solution that allowed them to manage their deals and associated history. One of the organization’s goals was to create a centralized, easily accessible dashboard interface from which they could rapidly determine the status of a deal as well as manage their deals. Their deal lifecycle had multiple stages depending on whether a deal was New, in a diligence phase, on Hold or Dead.

How are you perceived by your customers? In this age, on social media, your buyers are posting their opinions about your products and services. To better serve them, build your brand, and protect your position. How do you listen and understand?

Why are more and more smart companies going VC to find their next breakthroughs? A corporate venture-capital fund for investing in outside startups can help a company see, understand, and respond rapidly to changes in the business landscape. In this Harvard Business Review article, HBS Professor Josh Lerner, faculty chair of the HBS Executive Education program Private Equity and Venture Capital, shares six ways to create a venture fund that’s as savvy and nimble as the best private VCs.

Capital abundance, low interest rates, and high volatility are creating new challenges and opportunities in equity markets. To succeed in this crowded and complex global landscape, you must take your investment expertise to a new level. The Private Equity and Venture Capital program at Harvard Business School explores cutting-edge industry models and related issues—from venture capital, growth equity, and buyouts to industry infrastructure, portfolio strategies, and decision-making processes.

For decades, large companies have been wary of corporate venturing. So why are more and more smart companies going VC to find their next breakthroughs? With corporate R&D units under pressure to focus on a narrow range of projects, companies often lack a good way to sniff out competitive threats beyond their main areas of expertise. A corporate venture capital fund for investing in outside startups can help a company see, understand, and respond rapidly to changes in the business landscape. But the parent company’s processes tend to bog down these funds.

Capital abundance, low interest rates, and high volatility are creating new challenges and opportunities in equity markets. To succeed in this crowded and complex global landscape, you must take your investment expertise to a new level. The Private Equity and Venture Capital program at Harvard Business School explores cutting-edge industry models and related issues—from venture capital, growth equity, and buyouts to industry infrastructure, portfolio strategies, and decision-making processes.

1.Meet the new consumer The migration to mobile and social media will challenge — and change — everything we know about consumer marketing. 2. Who owns your brand? Brand equity can no longer be bought. Online reviews now generate total market transparency for location-based businesses. Reviews tilt the balance of branding power away from companies and into the hands of customers. 3. The battle for brick-and-mortar customers is won or lost on the social web. To win, marketers must actively enlist customers as online advocates. Those who scale online review volume and quality will be rewarded with higher search visibility and more business at street level. 4. “Dark data” provides priceless operational insights Vast amounts of unstructured, unmined sentiment data on social media provides feedback about the customer experience that you can filter using thematic analysis and use to improve operations at the national or location level. 5. Business implications Online reputation stands betwee

2015 and 2016 were big for HCM tech startups. Hundreds of new companies were launched and hundreds of sophomore companies received new and bigger rounds of investment from angels, venture capitalists, private equity firms, rich uncles, and poor saps. It’s a bona fide gold rush.

Insights Regarding the Importance of Pay Equality and Fairness in the U.S. Workplace

A renewed focus on pay equity at the state and federal levels, coupled with the power of movements like #MeToo and #TimesUp, have companies and their HR/compliance representatives dusting taking a deep dive into pay practices to ensure equity for all. Recent lawsuits settled in favor of plaintiffs, and activist call-outs for companies to be more equitable and transparent about pay practices, add fuel to the fire: ? Seven female law professors at the University of Denver won a $2.6 million settlement in May ? Activist investor Arjuna Capital is pushing major tech firms to publish data to support equitable pay practices ? Google is facing a class action battle over equitable pay practices That’s just the tip of the iceberg. If you’re not on top of this critical issue, you could be next on the list of companies facing legal and public scrutiny. XpertHR can help you wade through the regulatory requirements and practical considerations to audit and revise, as necessary, your pay practices.

Download this report and learn how to: . Monitor, analyze and report on social media content . Manage brand effectiveness . Ensure brand consistency across social media and other marketing channels . Build an effective social compliance program

Dr. Bernadette Musetti has devoted most of her career to learning about and creating more equity and access in education for students whose primary language is other than English. In this podcast, she discusses the benefits of bilingualism, shares strategies to support English Learners and more.

In this eBook, we share key takeaways from Dr. Bernadette Musetti's recent white paper, "Technology to Promote ELL Student & Family Success".

We update our three 2018 investment themes against a backdrop of synchronized global growth, rising inflation and interest rates, higher equity market volatility and more economic uncertainty. By submitting this form you agree to share your contact information with BlackRock and to follow-up communication. Investing involves risk, including possible loss of principal. Prepared by BlackRock Investments, LLC. iSHARES and BLACKROCK are registered trademarks of BlackRock, Inc., or its subsidiaries. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. BlackRock, Inc. is not affiliated with The Economist. 483635

For the most part, even companies using sophisticated technology to provide consistent access and answers across channels still view customer service through a traditional lens of serving the needs of the customer—despite its usefulness in marketing, building brand equity, up- and cross-selling and driving loyalty, as well as capturing the voice of the customer for product and service improvement and new product and service ideas. Even when serving customers is seen as a strategic goal for the entire organization, few companies seem to be leveraging customer service as a true organizational

In this guide, we’ll walk you through a few examples that illustrate the value of drilling down into data for better people decisions

Pink OTC Market Inc. is the third largest U.S. equity trading marketing place. Learn how Pink OTC built a highly available and highly reliable (no downtime in a year of production use) data warehouse using Vertica's Analytic DBMS that cost-effectively stores billions of records and scales easily by simply adding CPUs without incurring additional licensing fees.

Granting equity to non-US employees? Then get a jump start on doing it right with the Ten Best Practices from EASi (Equity Administration Solutions, Inc.) and Baker & McKenzie.

Learn the 10 key legal requirements, employer and employee tax considerations, and the most common challenges in offering a Code Section 423 plan.