Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

While consumers are rightfully worried that their personal information may be compromised, shareholders and companies’ management have a wider set of concerns, including loss of intellectual property, operational disruption, decreased customer trust, tarnished brand, and loss of investor commitment. The stock price declined 0.3%

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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. Make constant improvement a focus.

Cash Flow 13

Cash Flow Travel Scaling Operations 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

Return on equity (net income divided by equity) results from multiplying three key operating ratios: Profitability (net income over sales). Operating efficiency (sales over assets). Investment efficiency (ideas explored divided by total capital and operational investment). Financial leverage (assets over equity).

Cash Flow 10

Cash Flow Assets Benchmarking Sales 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. ” Improving risk management. billion from reduced energy and wastewater consumption in manufacturing.

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Assets Operations Revenue Energy 15

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.

Marketing 13

Marketing Cash Flow Software Media 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

billion in revenue in 2013. Operators set their work schedules and their vacations, design and monitor their own performance indicators, do their own maintenance, and are consulted on the choice of new machinery. The results have been impressive. By 2017 it had grown organically to $12.79 billion worldwide.

Cash Flow 15

Cash Flow Manager Benefits Employee Engagement 15

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. Webvan was forced to cease operations by 2001. Think of strategy as a portfolio of options, not bonds.

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Cash Flow Marketing Insurance Manager 8

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.

Benchmarking 9

Benchmarking Metrics Advertising ROI 9

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. Think about two things: First, what are the objectives and operating assumptions driving your competitors?

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Cash Flow Business Administration Administration Government 111

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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Fixed Costs Assets Cash Flow Variable Costs 14

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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Assets Advertising Cash Flow Revenue 11

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. Sometimes it doesn’t make sense for companies operating in the same space to continually compete. Example: MineMe Inc.

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Balance Sheet Cash Flow Revenue Reorganization 12