Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

Where I was unable to spell my own name or barely speak in 2008, I am now projecting revenue growth and cash flows in 2013." "So it brings a whole different set of issues to an already complicated business world. Both Nick and his manager credit Fullbridge for providing him improved analytical and presentation skills.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

In June 2013, Dallas-based Mary Kay exited from India after six years and over $20 million invested. So cash flow is king in most Indian businesses and if you can document how your product or service can improve your Indian customer’s cash flow, a high ticket price becomes much less of a factor.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

During the 2013 holiday season shopping period, Target was the object of then the biggest cyber attack on a retailer. A judge recently ruled that Target will have to defend itself against accusations of negligence by banks, credit unions and consumers when it came to preventing the 2013 security breach. The stock price declined 0.3%

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

equity markets* on BusinessWeek's 2008 list ended up underperforming broader market indices between March 2008 and March 2013. Conceivably, this ratio could look backwards (measuring the actual results of historical investment) or forward (measuring the expected value of current investments in innovation).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

billion in cash and short-term investments — and my sense from looking at the numbers for the past couple of quarters is that it could probably be making some money, too (that is, generating positive free cash flow), if that were a priority. billion in its 2013 IPO) that investors have plowed into it.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

In 2000, with more than $100 million in negative cash flow, the company agreed to be acquired by Star Cruises, a leading cruise operator in Asia. In early 2013, Norwegian went public and became one of the most successful IPOs of the year, closing the year 87% above its IPO price. Sheehan’s strategy has worked.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Most companies – including the movie studios in Hollywood – over-rely on basic tools like discounted cash flow and net present value. But it is possible to significantly improve your odds by understanding which decision-support tools work best for which decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

billion in revenue in 2013. Michelin is a huge company in a relatively mature industry, but it has still managed to nearly double its free cash flow since 2015, to €1.509 billion ($1.75 The results have been impressive. By 2017 it had grown organically to $12.79 billion worldwide.

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Cash Flow Manager Benefits Employee Engagement 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

In 2013, GE had reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 32% and water use by 45% compared to 2004 and 2006 baselines, respectively, resulting in $300 million in savings. Since 1994, Dow has invested nearly $2 billion in improving resource efficiency and has saved $9.8 billion from reduced energy and wastewater consumption in manufacturing.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Since Immelt’s departure, GE’s stock is down another 30%, as its new CEO, John Flannery, has struggled to cope with the cash flow drain from years of problematic acquisitions, divestitures, and buybacks. in 2013 to 3.7 Because of these dubious decisions, GE’s ratio of debt to earnings has soared from 1.5

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

The only bad news is that the steering committee turned down my request of €2 million in additional funds for the 2013 budget. Compared to our original plan, a larger part of the development phase will now be executed in 2013. We’ll have to reassign the existing designers to conceptual work, which isn’t their area of expertise.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Following the company’s go-private transaction in October 2013 , Dell put in place new models for strategy development, resource allocation, and performance management. Management forecasts the future coupon payments (or cash flows) associated with various strategies and then selects the one that has the highest discounted value.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Just 36 percent of CMOs, for example, have quantitatively proven the short-term impact of marketing spend, according to the 2013 CMO Survey (and for demonstrating long-term impact, that figure drops to 32 percent). To date, however, the reality of marketing analytics has fallen short of the promise.

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UVA Darden

JULY 21, 2022

You need a thorough strategic analysis that identifies and analyzes your direct competitors to forecast your future cash flows and calculate an expected market value for your business. In 2013, Lenox co-authored The Strategist’s Toolkit with Darden Professor Jared Harris. His latest book, Can Business Save the Earth?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

government sold off all of its GM holdings in December 2013, U.S. billion from 2010 through 2013), it would probably still be bankrupt but for the booming Chinese market. In 2013 GM produced 3 million cars in China , or 45% of its global car production; that was up from 1.1 billion by the U.S. By the time the U.S. billion loss.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

For example, the Lordstown, Ohio, factory that makes the Chevy Cruze is running one shift a day, down from three a few years ago, and last year produced 180,000 vehicles, down from 248,000 in 2013. Capital-intensive factories have a high-fixed-cost, low-variable-cost operating model. Given the shift in immediate U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

After an unprecedented decade of growth, analysts wrote off 2013 as a year to forget for Apple. After all, it grew from $7 billion in 2003 to $171 billion in 2013 by entering established (albeit still-emerging) markets with superior products — something the model suggests is a losing strategy. When Innovation Is Strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

million in 2013, when realized gains from stock-based pay represented 27% of total pay, to a high of $20.1 Rather, it is corporate executives with their stock-based compensation who benefit. In the period 2006 through 2014, the total pay of McDonald’s CEO varied from a low of $3.6 ’ ” The losers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2015

According to Schulte, Roth & Zabel’s Activist Investing 2015 Annual Review, a total of 344 companies worldwide were subjected to activist demands in 2014, up 18% from the 291 recorded in 2013. However, free cash flow per share remained impressive at both companies, and fixed cost ratios remained somewhat intact.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2013

proprietary data shows that the smallest businesses have been growing revenues the fastest: In 2013 alone, micro business revenue on average grew by 2.14% while small business revenue grew by 1.18%. Adding jobs is a capital investment, not a cash flow issue. D&B Credibility Corp. Finance Hiring Small/medium business'

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2015

trillion in repatriated profits will create “thousands of jobs,” but I believe what really excites him is the prospect that companies in which he holds shares will have billions of dollars more of “free” cash flow for buybacks and dividends.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Many lay readers are familiar with John Burr Williams and the dividend discount model , or the discounted value of future cash flows. And that’s what these guys [the 2013 Nobel winners] did. This stochastic discount factor model is the modern economic update of those, correct?

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