Zenefits

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In the past, the link between Human Resources and business operations was simple: Supply workers and keep them. But just as business models have changed over the years, the shift from Human Resources to People Operations has led to new ways of thinking about employees. They are an asset, a client, and a contributor.

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Zenefits

JANUARY 20, 2023

For example, Member A may focus on day-to-day operations, while member B will contribute capital and act as a business advisor. If someone attempts to sue your business and you’ve filed as an LLC, they usually can’t come after your personal assets. Is a single-member LLC the same as a sole proprietorship?

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Zenefits

JUNE 29, 2022

With tight cash flow and an uncertain market, small businesses can be financially ruined by a disastrous, unexpected lawsuit or accident. Sometimes called “business income insurance,” this form of liability coverage helps to recover lost income in case of operational failure due to property damage. Business size.

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Small Business Insurance Compensation Onboarding 52

Walk Me

AUGUST 18, 2022

Healthcare organizations have three budgeting processes: Operational budgeting, capital budgeting, and rolling forecasting. The healthcare manager can separate expenses into several categories, the first of which is operational budgeting. Operational Expenses. Capital Expenses. Policy changes such as Obamacare.

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Andrew Chen

JUNE 3, 2019

What to do when VCs get too entangled in the day-to-day operations of the business. This is a decidedly negative cash flow motion—money is going out with (likely) no near-term prospect of money coming in. Why you need to build relationships with potential acquirers long before you decide to sell.

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Cash Flow Compensation Marketing Assets 40

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

There are people who disagree with that adage, of course, some saying that cash and cash flow are more important (and too often ignored). Let’s start with return on assets. What is Return on Assets (ROA)? “ROA simply shows how effective your company is at using those assets to generate profit.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

Income statements almost always include an allowance for depreciation of capital assets. Cash transactions, meanwhile, show up on the cash flow statement. A common mistake in ROI analysis is comparing the initial investment, which is always in cash, with returns as measured by profit or (in some cases) revenue.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

Three-quarters of the world's CEOs say more emphasis should be placed on measuring the value of non-financial assets such as intellectual capital and customer relationships. Companies spend countless hours tracking financials: assets, liabilities, revenue, expenses, and cash flow.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Horizon 1 (H1) represents the current core operations of a company that produce the cash flow needed to sustain operations, to meet investor expectations, and to invest in future growth. In general, the more horizons that a target's assets reach, the stronger and more valuable the acquisition is.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

Return on equity (net income divided by equity) results from multiplying three key operating ratios: Profitability (net income over sales). Operating efficiency (sales over assets). Financial leverage (assets over equity). Investment efficiency (ideas explored divided by total capital and operational investment).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Capital-intensive factories have a high-fixed-cost, low-variable-cost operating model. Every day GM operates such factories, it expends more resources that could be redeployed elsewhere. 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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2011

In writing down your value proposition "answer," think about the unique capabilities and assets that your business has that clearly differentiates it from the competition. That is a unique process and asset in the nail salon world. What do you have that is different and appealing to the customer? Who are you trying to serve?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Creating economic value is a logical governing objective for a company that operates in a free market system. More-specific financial drivers vary among companies and can include earnings growth, cash flow growth, and return on invested capital. Companies may choose a different objective, such as maximizing the firm's longevity.

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Banking Cash Flow Metrics Government 17

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. Deciding when to close a store.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

” PE firms typically take three types of value increasing actions — financial engineering, governance engineering, and operational engineering. In operational engineering, PE firms develop industry and operating expertise that they bring to bear to add value to their portfolio companies.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2012

Turning around GE or Yahoo may be prestigious and lucrative; at a minimum, big companies have the cash flow to ride out a turnaround. In the case of venture-funded companies, which have little operating experience and untested ideas, the bargain is both the idea and the people, with the latter more important than the former.

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Cash Flow Assets Metrics Recruitment 15

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. Investors from hedge funds to insurance companies are operating in an environment of low yields, near-zero interest rates, and a glut of savings. Corporations might even get involved.

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Chris LoCutro

MARCH 5, 2024

And you're looking at the p&l all the time, you're looking at cash flow all the time, you're looking at sales projections all the time, you're looking at expense reports all the time. So let's say you've got a sales leader, and a marketing leader, and then an operations leader, or a service manager? Why do I need that?

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Small Business Operations Accounts Energy 59

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

They’re essentially asking the company to take the cash it has generated through its business operations and spend it on something with an uncertain future return. billion asset known as Skype was now worth $1.7 But finance people like me are skeptical even when the proposals do project a return. Here’s why.

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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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex. But the other indicators probably pick up legitimate differences in how companies in the sample operate, as opposed to whether they are myopic.

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Chris LoCutro

APRIL 23, 2024

It's just a really good basis for you to operate off of, right? You know what, if it's a, we look at an opportunity for, maybe there's something inside of the business that is an asset that we're not needing anymore, we could sell that off. If there's other options like assets or things, great, there's a ton of different ways.

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Small Business Succession Planning Operations Assets 40

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

While M&A transactions absorb much of senior management’s attention and attract great interest from financial analysts and the business press, the company’s operational performance will ultimately make or break the transformation. PPG (originally “Pittsburgh Plate Glass”) is a splendid example of such a transformation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

Return on equity (net income divided by equity) results from multiplying three key operating ratios: Profitability (net income over sales). Operating efficiency (sales over assets). Financial leverage (assets over equity). Investment efficiency (ideas explored divided by total capital and operational investment).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Even accounting rules specifically dealing with reputation — goodwill and intangible assets — are subject to frequent rule changes and endless debate. And the mathematics of long-term financial success — revenues, profits, cash flow — square perfectly with this scorecard.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. ” Improving risk management.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

While consumers are rightfully worried that their personal information may be compromised, shareholders and companies’ management have a wider set of concerns, including loss of intellectual property, operational disruption, decreased customer trust, tarnished brand, and loss of investor commitment. Data Security & privacy'

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

It used a unique asset that gave the company a leg up over competitors. When do you turn cash-flow positive?”. Now it was asking the business unit’s top brass to invest a relatively modest sum to begin to commercialize the concept. Team members had researched the market thoroughly. The classic fingerprint of disruptive success.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2015

For example, when it comes to driving shareholder value, there are two fundamental components of cash flow: profitability and growth. Take, for example, a company with a 5% return on assets (ROA) and a 12% growth rate. Should you invest equally in both? If not, which of these two should get the nod?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

See More Videos > See More Videos > To elaborate, a company’s intrinsic equity value reflects the long-term cash flows that shareholders expect to receive over time, discounted at the appropriate risk-adjusted cost of equity capital. And having a number of small good ideas can keep a company ahead of its rivals for years.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

That is, rather than employ a new technology to disrupt a company’s business model, an upstart disrupts the entire breadth of an entrenched value chain by wresting control of a critical asset. But the critical asset in that value chain is the viewership data that Nielsen provides, which sets the price for advertising. for three years.

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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.

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Insurance Risk Management Small Business Cash Flow 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. Solutions should trend toward entertainment, education, and social networking, and they can be location specific.

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Real Estate Cash Flow B2B ROI 14

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.

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Marketing Cash Flow Software Media 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

And this addresses the commercial value creation question – P&G’s mindset was to create operational efficiencies that would contribute to healthy EBITDA margins. A key challenge in quantifying the value of IoT is in valuing the data assets it creates. This method is not perfect, but it is a good start.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

The choice of strategy depends on how much investment of time and money the bank is willing to make to enter the new marketplace, and the level of integration the bank wants between the new digital activities and their traditional operations.

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