Chris LoCutro

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

And if you can't repay, they'll come for your home, your personal assets, whatever it is, because you might have that loan in your name. So more than any other asset that you can buy. being financially prepared for big purchases is part of growing up handling your assets and liability is immaturely and planning for the future.

Real Estate 64

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

The world is not short on capital — a startling $43 trillion of assets is currently under management in the United States alone. The main challenge is that investors are very good at understanding a single asset with standalone cash flows — a toll road, for example, or a power plant, or an apartment building.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

It is big in terms of the total corporate assets that are being re-assigned to new owners. Alternatively, if I sell my car to an Uber driver, or the owner of a taxi medallion, that same asset may be put to a different use and become more valuable to customers or society. The last common source of joint value is future options.

Scaling 13

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

For instance, despite the prominent role that discounted cash flow valuation methods play in academic finance courses, few PE investors use discounted cash flow or net present value techniques to evaluate investments. Rather, they rely on internal rates of return and multiples of invested capital.

Cash Flow 14

Cash Flow Engineering Government Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

Similarly, considering greater accruals (which represent the difference between reported income and operating cash flows) to measure short-term orientation has its difficulties. It assumes that a smaller proportion of cash flows in earnings indicates a myopic firm.

Metrics 11

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2013

The investment would have the upside of an entrepreneur but the assets of a large enterprise. The winning team won largely because it embraced the classic HBR Marketing Myopia concept of building a growth strategy not on the products they sell, but rather the end benefit or job it provides.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. Hoping to alleviate their concerns, this article also provides concrete examples of how sustainability benefits the bottom line. billion in mining projects since 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

billion in cash and short-term investments — and my sense from looking at the numbers for the past couple of quarters is that it could probably be making some money, too (that is, generating positive free cash flow), if that were a priority. The company has piles of money — $3.6 And the company’s latest (Oct.

Marketing 13

Marketing Cash Flow Software Media 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

Airbnb is an example of a win-win quality improvement: landlords realize more cash flow from their assets, and customers gain both better choice and lower costs in their travel lodging options.

Real Estate 14

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2010

You may be tempted to try to get the largest benefit possible for your group, but be aware of what that says to the rest of the organization. "In Make clear to employees what they need to do to earn the benefit. In his role as vice president of compensation and benefits at CEMEX, Gerardo Guerra knows the ins and outs of bonuses.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

In essence, the fortunate firms took on more debt, committing the business to a stream of cash flows and expenses far into the future to pay for their losses. Others were unable to borrow to replace lost assets and address other operating needs, compromising their earnings potential.

Insurance 13

Insurance Risk Management Small Business Cash Flow 13

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. When Jack Welch stepped down as CEO in 2001, GE’s defined benefit (DB) plan was sitting on a surplus of $14.6

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

For marketers (and other executives), there are several benefits associated with using this measurement, including: Justifying marketing spend. “Google search ads look like they have a high ROI, but they are often building on and benefiting from many other forms of marketing.” As a result, CFOs and CMOs are often at odds.

ROI 8

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

For example, ostensibly, Facebook’s customers are its daily users (call them “asset units” for argument’s sake). Those outlays could be on soft avenues, such as customer acquisition, data breach and safety, regulatory fines, and product enhancement, or on hard assets, such as hardware, servers, and cellphone towers.

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Variable Costs Revenue Assets Accounts 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

CMOs must demonstrate and track marketing’s impact by focusing on key performance indicators (KPIs) that are important for shareholder value such as strong cash flow, cost of capital, return on capital, and operating margin. As a long-term asset of significant value, the brand should be part of those calculations.

Benchmarking 9

Benchmarking Metrics Advertising ROI 9

Chief Executive

MARCH 3, 2023

This will enable you to avoid major stockouts in your high-profit products, and write-offs in your profit drain products—creating strong positive profit and cash-flow benefits. They generate significant additional profit, cash flow and customer service benefits. Step 2 – Customer-optimized inventory.

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Metrics Cash Flow ROI Revenue 98

Zenefits

JULY 27, 2022

As your small business continues to scale, cash flow transparency and accounting efficiency become harder to maintain. Poor cash flow visibility. As your business expands, you may be subject to different taxes or benefits liabilities. Simplify benefits administration. Simplify benefits administration.

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Walk Me

AUGUST 18, 2022

Cash is the most liquid asset of any business, including hospitals and clinical services. Any manager must know what they can liquidate quickly and sell for the hospital’s long-term benefit and sustainability. However, the capital budgeting process involves much more long-term assets. Working capital management.

Manager 52

Manager Hospitality Insurance Operations 52

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

It’s important because companies build assets and capabilities to deliver products and services to a market of consumers that values them at some point in time. But markets and tastes shift, and changing assets and company processes is hard. Then there is the question of how to reallocate assets.

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Fixed Costs Assets Cash Flow Variable Costs 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Combining the second-largest wireless carrier with the fourth-biggest entertainment company — one whose impressive assets include HBO and CNN — is likely to create an unassailable mobile-entertainment business. You gain market power, allowing you to price the asset higher than you could otherwise. But they’re wrong.

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Assets Cash Flow Media Advertising 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

Managing death more effectively can provide numerous benefits: It can boost profits significantly, lower the cost of capital, and reduce complexity in operations, which can improve the performance of concepts that are in the early and midlife stages.

Cash Flow 12

Cash Flow Revenue Banking Operations 12

Chief Executive

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Fueled by near-zero interest rates and federal stimulus money, public companies amassed a war chest of cheap capital to chase risky assets, strategies and yield. 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

Balance Sheet 52

Balance Sheet Cash Flow Software Marketing 52

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2017

For instance, getting rid of a tax credit might hurt a few companies a lot but benefit everyone else a little bit.). One creative approach to address these problems, the destination-based cash flow tax in the 2016 House Republican blueprint, has already been abandoned.

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Cash Flow Revenue Administration Education 9