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Why Buying a Company Can Be Better than Starting One

Harvard Business Review

For example, in 2015, Jennifer Braus bought Systems Design West, which serves hundreds of municipal firehouses in the Pacific Northwest by handling billing to insurance companies for their emergency ambulance transports. Meanwhile, he steadily adds additional services and customization that serves his customers’ needs ever better.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

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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. 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.

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Give Your Team the Freedom to Do the Work They Think Matters Most

Harvard Business Review

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 billion) in 2017 compared to €833 million in 2015. The results have been impressive. billion worldwide.

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Ten Clues It's Time to Replace Your Head of HR

Harvard Business Review

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.

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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business Review

“The decision-makers will want to see a simple model that shows revenue, costs, overhead, and cash flow,” he says. The most important concepts to grasp are “how to measure profitability, EBITDA, operating income, revenue, and operating expenses,” he says. What if revenue was higher?

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. Wal-Mart, for example, aimed to double fleet efficiency between 2005 and 2015 through better routing, truck loading, driver training, and advanced technologies.

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What GE’s Board Could Have Done Differently

Harvard Business Review

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