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The Importance of Business Acumen for High Performance

LSA Global

It is not just the purview of finance to interpret the numbers that govern profit and loss; it behooves every employee to understand how and why the company makes money, spends money, and measures financial performance. Cash flow. Study the Balance Sheet. A Lack of Business Acumen Exists. Operating income.

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Enabling the Natural Act of Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

In a recent post on HBR.org , I called attention to the fact that we entrepreneurship promoters are too focused on start-up, and need to re-balance the dialog to support scale-up as well. That dialog includes all stakeholders, from the entrepreneurs themselves to investors to government policymakers. have spread like wildfire.

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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business Review

While companies are required to share the same materials with all investors, they can emphasize the elements that will be most relevant to particular investor segments—highlighting stable cash flow for pension funds or payouts for growth-oriented investors, for example.

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In Defense of Responsible Offshoring and Outsourcing

Harvard Business Review

The need to have a significant employment or plant/equipment presence in a local market because host governments demand it; Because such a presence can also pull a company's high-end exports from the U.S.; Because a presence can strengthen that market's economy and thus increase U.S. Worker Transition at Home.

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4 Types of Activist Investors and How to Spot Them

Harvard Business Review

This typically means they look to re-engineer the balance sheet to increase shareholder yield, over the shortest amount of time possible, which typically ranges between six to twelve months. However, free cash flow per share remained impressive at both companies, and fixed cost ratios remained somewhat intact.

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M&A Special Report: The Great Deal Reset

Chief Executive

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 In today’s high-inflation environment, strategic acquirers with lots of cash on the balance sheet need to do something with it,” says Christopher R.