In the session, we discussed how to deal with difficult situations to make decisions. Through four example cases, we deepen our reflections and what each should do in each business case. Just to be clear, there is no silver bullet. #1 Me t…

Top 19 things I wish I knew back in 2004 Alen introduced top 19 lists of what he should have known in his professional career. All the topics are remarkably great. Career is not ladder but jungle gym There are a lot of good schools and you…

Modigliani and Miller Theories(M&M theory) What Is the Modigliani-Miller (M&M) Theorem, and How Is It Used? Merton Miller and Franco Modigliani conceptualized and developed this theorem, and published it in an article, "The Cost of Capital…

Clustering 101 Clustering is the most typical machine learning of unsupervised learning. It means we don't have training data or correct label, but machine learning automatically put labels, or grouping datasets. In today's article, I will…

Earning means what? Earning in accounting means nothing in finance. We need to dive into detail if we want to find out how to evaluate stock pricing and company's growth. Trade-off between growth and dividends There is a trade-off between …

Dragon's Den www.youtube.com Cheeky Chompers sell baby products and two ladies made presenation in front of investors. Their feedbacks were really terrible. However, after this program, their sales recorded over 1M GBP. What is your core W…

In this class, we have some role-playings in a startup negotiation situation Scenario 1: Emotional conflict - Understanding the connection between emotion and preparation in negotiation- Understanding how emotion makes it hard to hear what…

Fixed income markets: Issuers: entities that create fixed-income securities in order to raise funds (e.g.,governments, corporations, commercial banks, states, municipalities) Intermediaries: entities that assist issuers in creating and sel…

For what kind of products we should adopt Field Sales? Field sales is a DIRECT selling motion referring to the selling ofproducts or services by sales reps outside the office.Sales people literally go out into the “field” to meet with pros…

Market segments People tend to put more weights on demographic because it is identifiable. However, psychographic is more important actually. Demographics are just correlating with psycographic. The one of the most sophisticated organizati…

NPV rule For a single project, take it only if it has a positive NPV. For many independent projects, take all those with positive NPV. For mutually exclusive projects, take the one with the highest positive NPV. If there is synergy between…

When we, Japanese students, are in the classroom, I can find a lot of vulnerabilities of our cohorts of course including me. We are good at resolving "given" questions, challenges, problems and leveraging the "given" environments. It is a …