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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business Review

For its part, Nikon focused on cost optimization opportunities and balance sheet management when communicating to value-oriented investors and on long-term structural changes when communicating to growth-oriented investors. It also called for streamlining headquarters and cutting executive management’s compensation.

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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.