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Should You Join the Family Business?: The decision to join a family business can be difficult because once you're in, you're in for the long haul. You can leave IBM with two-weeks notice. But mixing blood and money means you are committing big time to Johnson's Distributors or Jones and Sons Auto Repair. ...; Tags: Corporate Law, Business Operations, Finance, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Family Governance, Family Business, Sean Silverthorne; Blog posts 2008-08-06
A Real Death: Is Corporate Evil to Blame?: Can a Business Be Evil? asks Lew McCreary in an excellent, five-paragraph post on Harvard Business Publishing. If not, then who is responsible for the death of Carlene Balderrama, a 53-year-old wife and mother who killed herself hours before her house was to be sold in a foreclosure auction? ...; Tags: Sean Silverthorne, Capital Structures, Finance, Financial Accounting, Mortgages, Accountability; Blog posts 2008-08-05
3 Question Quiz: Is Your Company Ready to Innovate?: Although every company needs to create new growth products and services to prosper, not all firms are on sound enough footing to boldly go where no company has gone before. Judge the situation at your own company by answering these three questions, advises innovation expert Scott Anthony...; Tags: Question, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Finance, Management, Sean Silverthorne; Blog posts 2008-06-24
Tick Tock: Tips for Allocating Your Time: Do you spend your work time as effectively as you could? Let me answer for you. No. Everyone from CEOs to front-line managers squander their most valuable resource -- time -- like an untuned automobile wastes fuel. Our opportunities to create real value for the organization are...; Tags: Sean Silverthorne, Finance, Online Communications, Human Resources, Productivity, Financial Accounting, E-mail, Workforce Management, Time Management; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Take Advantage of Recession: An economic downturn is a great time to go after competitors, who likely will be retrenching rather than advancing. But you need two things before loading up. First, your financials must be in order, including a healthy balance sheet, cash, and little debt. Second, pick the right...; Tags: Sean Silverthorne, Finance, Financial Accounting, Balance Sheets, Marketing Research, Financial Statements, Marketing; Blog posts 2008-04-14

Corporate Boards Responding More To Shareholders: Thanks to the Enron-style management lapses and collapses, shareholders suddenly find their collective voices being heard more than ever by boards of directors. For any investor who has ever suffered through an annual meeting, you know that shareholder proposals almost routinely get shot shot down by directors,...; Tags: Finance, Corporate Law, Business Operations, Financial Accounting, Corporate Governance, Shareholder Proposal, Shareholder, Director, Board, Sean Silverthorne; Blog posts 2008-03-10
Where Can Startups Find Executive Talent?: One pitch entrepreneurs often hear from VCs and other investors is that they will help you find top talent for your organization. This is only partly true. If you want a CEO or CFO, then, yes, your venture funding partners can help recruit top names. But if...; Tags: Sean Silverthorne, Human Resources, Management, Finance, Financial Accounting, Entrepreneurship, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Talent, CEO, Investor, Recruiting, Hiring; Blog posts 2008-03-04
What History Tells Us About America's Future: Harvard's Niall Ferguson is a well known and controversial historian who often looks into the financial past to plot parallels with contemporary times. Lately Ferguson has warned of a coming decline in the West and particularly in the US -- see his 2006 book The War of the World:...; Tags: Sean Silverthorne, Finance, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Harvard, Empire, America; Blog posts 2008-02-07
Corporate Social Responsibility Doesn't Pay (Usually): Your mama told you that good deeds will be rewarded. But in the emerging area of corporate social responsibility, or CSR, it's far from clear that socially responsible companies are rewarded financially in the marketplace, according to researchers. "While doing good doesn't appear to destroy shareholder value,...; Tags: Sean Silverthorne, Finance, Business Operations, Management, Financial Accounting, Leadership, Corporate Law, Business Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Shareholder; Blog posts 2008-01-09
Stop the Meeting Madness! Tools for Simplifying Your Company: Is more than half your time soaked up in company meetings? How many layers of management sit between your CEO and front-line workers? Do you understand how to get a capital expense approved? The answer to these questions and 7 others in a new Harvard Business diagnostic...; Tags: Sean Silverthorne, Policies And Procedures, Human Resources, Finance, Financial Accounting, Government, Management, Strategy, Regulations, Organizational Structure, Regulatory Compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley, Productivity, Globalization, Manager, Accountability, Tool, Complexity; Blog posts 2007-12-11
Great Job -- You're Fired!: "Managing Through Recession 101" teaches that you use the downturn to stock up on great talent being offed by your competitors. That's superb advice -- if your company has the financial flexibility to capitalize. But let's face it, many managers don't have this option. Instead, we will...; Tags: job, financial, financial accounting, finance, sean silverthorne; Blog posts 2008-08-08
American Economy Worse Than it Seems -- Summers: Lacking immediate steps by regulators and policy makers, the American economy won't recover even in the medium term, says Harvard University professor Lawrence Summers, a former Secretary of the Treasury. According to Summers, writing in The Financial Times, current economic analysis is coalescing around the opinion that...; Tags: Financial, Banking, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Sean Silverthorne; Blog posts 2008-08-18