Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

In the third quarter of 2014, Home Depot showed a 21% increase in earnings per share. Sears announced in October 2014 that one of its companies, Kmart, was the target of a data security breach and that credit/debit cards and personal information were compromised by hackers. In the beginning of October, 2014, the largest U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Among the firms we identified as focused on the long term, average revenue and earnings growth were 47% and 36% higher, respectively, by 2014, and market capitalization grew faster as well. Our belief is that the earnings of long-term companies will rely less on accounting decisions and more on underlying cash flow than other companies.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

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. The reality is that usage assumptions of many imported products are not attuned to the Indian market.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

output comes from fracking operations that have cut costs dramatically since slumping prices in 2014 forced dozens of companies into bankruptcy. In fact, 2018 may mark the first year shale producers will be able to fund future expansions of drilling programs through their own cash flow. The soaring U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

In 2014 we described what Western investors want from African entrepreneurs. Firms are realizing what microfinance has known for a while: Local self-policing groups, or village headmen who police honor codes, can hedge cash flows in far-flung places. A realistic approach to making money might strike some as humdrum.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

The main challenge is that investors are very good at understanding a single asset with standalone cash flows — a toll road, for example, or a power plant, or an apartment building. These range from uncertain revenues to disagreements over guarantees to concerns about political risk.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

The use of switching stations by Tesla also highlights two truths that we have repeatedly encountered in our study of hundreds of business model innovations (we document these in our forthcoming book "The Risk Driven Business Model: Four Questions that will Define your Company", Harvard Business Press, 2014).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

By the end of 2014, they had improved fuel efficiency approximately 87% compared to the 2005 baseline. Wal-Mart, for example, aimed to double fleet efficiency between 2005 and 2015 through better routing, truck loading, driver training, and advanced technologies. In its survey of over 200 institutional investors, 59.1% Some 62.4%

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

“The decision-makers will want to see a simple model that shows revenue, costs, overhead, and cash flow,” he says. But when he first arrived at Chicago-based TransUnion in 2014, a private equity group owned it. “They need to see why it’s a good idea.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

After a modest surge in inpatient admissions from the Affordable Care Act’s coverage expansion in the fall of 2014, hospitals have settled in to a lengthy period of declining hospital admissions. All these problems contribute to diminished cash flows. Physician employees.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2017

companies over nine consecutive quarters (Q1 2014 through Q1 2016). InsideSales Labs, a division of our company, InsideSales.com, recently conducted research analysis on 9.8 million sales transactions from the anonymized data of 151 U.S. Collectively, these companies annually sold a combined $54 billion, averaging $360 million each.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

trillion in 2014. A CFO might just see marketing expenses walking out the door and not a corresponding build-up of cash flows and assets,” Avery explains. Juan Díaz-Faes for HBR. Companies spend a lot on marketing communications. In fact, global spending on media is expected to reach $2.1 trillion in 2019, up from $1.6

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

” And in 2014, HBR published a lengthy feature critical of the practice. A comprehensive survey of financial executives concluded that “repurchases are made out of the residual cash flow after investment spending.” Such a nefarious use of corporate funds makes for great headlines.

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AIHR

MAY 17, 2022

In 2014, leading tech companies, including Apple and Google , began releasing annual diversity reports on their workforce. They also have more than double the cash flow per employee as non-inclusive workplaces over three years. 57% of these organizations are implementing diversity metrics and programs.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

As shown in our value analysis below, the brand increased in value from $12 billion in 2004 to $24 billion in 2014. We then factored in the compound annual growth rate, royalties from licensing deals, and their tax-exempt status to calculate cash flows directly attributable to the brand. Then, a 3% growth rate was applied.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

” In 2014, McDonald’s expended $3.2 For the decade 2005-2014, McDonald’s expended $29.4 In the period 2006 through 2014, the total pay of McDonald’s CEO varied from a low of $3.6 In 2014, when the pay of McDonald’s CEO was $6.4 In 2014, when the pay of McDonald’s CEO was $6.4

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Unsurprisingly, a 2014 research report by the Federal Reserve shows that when given a choice, 69% of U.S. Whether you’re a small business that’s dependent on steady cash flow to make payroll, or a Fortune-100 multinational that processes millions in accounts receivable daily – this will impact you.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

From the 2001 launch of the iPod to the fiscal year end of 2014, Apple’s market cap surged more than 75-fold as its sales and profits exploded. Or is your portfolio well–balanced, ensuring current cash flow and strong upside profitable growth potential?

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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 21, 2015

From 2005 to 2014, 458 S&P 500 companies expended $3.7 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

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Adding jobs is a capital investment, not a cash flow issue. In September, the SBA announced that the banks had already increased their small business lending by $17 billion, putting them on track to meet their goal by the end of 2014. Why aren’t successful small businesses adding more jobs?

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