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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business Review

could become the world’s largest oil producer in 2018, surpassing Saudi Arabia and Russia. 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. Analysts have predicted that U.S.

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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. in early 2018, according to Moody’s. In January of 2018, GE announced that it was taking a $6.2

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A Blueprint for Digital Companies’ Financial Reporting

Harvard Business Review

On June 25, 2018, Facebook lost market capitalization of more than $100 billion in just two hours of trading after it announced its quarterly performance, despite exceeding analysts’ earnings forecasts. Dorling Kindersley/Getty Images. What caused this slump? It failed to meet its revenue and subscriber growth targets.

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The U.S. Needs Tax Reform, Not Tax Cuts

Harvard Business Review

These preferences are reflected in the outlines of tax proposals released in the past year by the Trump campaign, the Trump administration and House Republicans, and the budget proposals of the Trump administration and the House Budget Committee’s 2018 budget resolution.