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How U.S. Businesses Can Succeed in India in 2015

Harvard Business Review

On January 26, 2015, President Obama will become the first sitting U.S. Boeing India’s Dennis Swanson told Business Week that he expects to sign a new strategic partnership with an Indian company in 2015. At the same time Amway and L’Oreal thrived in the same market and personal care sales boomed across most of India.

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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. But this close-up look at cash flows suggests new routes to helping families. households.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

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.

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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

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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. After all, it’s easier to determine your impact on the bottom line if you’re in sales, but it’s not as straightforward if you’re in, say, HR. ” Principles to Remember. .”

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Why Is the NFL’s Brand More Valuable than Ever?

Harvard Business Review

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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GM’s Stock Buyback Is Bad for America and the Company

Harvard Business Review

In 2010 the “New GM” did one of the largest initial public offerings in history, with share sales to the public of $23.1 The pump-and-dump hedge funds will come back to GM’s buyback well year after year until the cash flow once again runs dry. Instead, U.S. taxpayers put up $49.5 billion by the U.S. GM did $20.4