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What Netflix and Starbucks Know About Cash Flow

Harvard Business Review

business ended 2014 with 39.1 When customers can foresee their demand for a product or service rising and trust a company enough agree to a monthly payment (thus providing regular cash flow), they are essentially enabling the company to build what customers want. Improving cash flow is extraordinarily healthy for any business.

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The Ideas That Shaped Management in 2014

Harvard Business Review

Of all the ways the world changed in 2014 — economic, cultural, technological, all three — which will matter most to us in 2015? At Amazon, It’s All About Cash Flow. How Google Manages Talent. Leadership & Managing people Information & technology' Mastering the Intermediaries. Do Not Split HR.

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Paying Employees with Cryptocurrency: The Pros and Cons

Zenefits

Maybe you remember hearing a couple years back that the rapper 50 Cent “forgot” that he accepted Bitcoin for his 2014 album. The more money someone has in cryptocurrency, the more effort is required to manage it and any cash flow that stems from it. Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Ethereum, oh my! Compliance risk.

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How to Build Employee Connection and 12 Ways to Build One

Vantage Circle

There are only three measurements that tell you nearly everything you need to know about your organization’s overall performance: employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow. In July 2001, Larry Page, co-founder of Google, fired all of Google's project managers. What's more!!

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We Tracked Every Dollar 235 U.S. Households Spent for a Year, and Found Widespread Financial Vulnerability

Harvard Business Review

The lack of access to stable, predictable cash flows is the hard-to-see source of much of today’s economic insecurity. Financial Diaries (USFD), an unprecedented study to collect detailed cash flow data for U.S. From 2012 to 2014 we set up research sites in 10 communities across the country. households.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. The returns to society and the overall economy were equally impressive.

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Why Data Breaches Don’t Hurt Stock Prices

Harvard Business Review

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.