Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

When the staff conversation turns to operating margins, cash flow, inventory, or revenue, does the CHRO tune out? Already 35% of the workforce is comprised of Millennials, born after 1977, and they will comprise nearly 50% of the workforce by 2015.

Cash Flow 15

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

By our measures, companies that were managed for the long term added nearly 12,000 more jobs on average than their peers from 2001 to 2015. 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. We calculate that U.S.

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Manager Revenue Metrics Cash Flow 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Wal-Mart, for example, aimed to double fleet efficiency between 2005 and 2015 through better routing, truck loading, driver training, and advanced technologies. According to the 2015 EY Global Institutional Investor Survey, investors are increasingly using companies’ nonfinancial disclosures to inform their investment decisions.

Assets 15

Assets Operations Revenue Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

As JPMorgan Chase’s CEO, Jamie Dimon, warned in a June 2015 letter to the bank’s shareholders, “Silicon Valley is coming.” This finding confirms what bankers fear: digitization upends business models, enabling greater competition that puts pressure on incumbents. Sometimes David can triumph over Goliath.

Banking 15

Banking Small Business User Experience Cash Flow 15

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. In 2015, TransUnion went public, and James had to help the company manage this financial transition. “They need to see why it’s a good idea.”

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Balance Sheet Metrics Revenue Cash Flow 15

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. billion in 2015 for Alstom’s business of making coal-fired turbines for power plants. in 2013 to 3.7

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

A recent analysis for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation shows that only four of the 37 provider-sponsored health plans established since Obamacare was signed into law were profitable in 2015. All these problems contribute to diminished cash flows. The regular Medicare and commercial business. Physician employees.

Hospitality 8

Hospitality Insurance Cash Flow Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

The customer needs the project completed by mid-2015. We can’t lay them off and hire conceptual designers, because the delay in our project is creating cash-flow problems for the company, and there’s a hiring freeze. 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 26, 2015

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. We discounted future cash flows at a rate of 10% a year, reflecting the future value of money by 10% per year. Then, a 3% growth rate was applied.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

A central plank of the plan is to “return $8 [billion] to $9 billion to shareholders in 2015 and to reach the top end of its three-year target of returning $18 billion to $20 billion to them by the end of 2016.” billion in buybacks in 2015 under its current board-authorized repurchase program. ’ ” The losers.

Compensation 13

Compensation Cash Flow Benefits Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

There were 21,000 layoffs; a wage freeze for current workers; a halved wage of $14 per hour for non-core new hires; elimination of a funding program for unemployed workers; a no-strike agreement until 2015; and the VEBA that shifted UAW retiree healthcare and pension benefits from GM to the UAW, saving the company $3 billion per year. (In

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Cash Flow Marketing Government Administration 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2015

FactSet Research calculates that in the 12 months ending with September 2015, S&P 500 companies spent 64.6% At the end of fiscal 2015 (September 26), Apple had $187 billion in liquid assets abroad, up $50 billion from a year earlier. From 2005 to 2014, 458 S&P 500 companies expended $3.7 of net income, plus another 35.7%

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Cash Flow Revenue Assets Administration 13

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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Balance Sheet Cash Flow Revenue Reorganization 12

Chief Executive

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The final tally smashed the previous high watermark set in 2015 by almost $1.5 Despite stiff economic headwinds, robust M&A opportunities are there for the taking, with many companies enjoying steady cash flows and strong balance sheets. “In The global M&A market closed 2021 at an all-time record of $5.9

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