Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

“The decision-makers will want to see a simple model that shows revenue, costs, overhead, and cash flow,” he says. The most important concepts to grasp are “how to measure profitability, EBITDA, operating income, revenue, and operating expenses,” he says. What if revenue was higher? Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2015

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. In recent years, both companies exhibited compressed margins, flat revenue growth, and lagging returns. Example: Jolly Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

It indicates what is left after all costs and expenses are subtracted from the company’s revenue. For example, “revenue” isn’t a cash-based number: A company can record revenue whenever it ships a good or delivers a service to a customer, whether or not the customer has paid the bill.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

That fact becomes apparent when you juxtapose the balance sheet of a company like Microsoft with the balance sheet of a company like Siemens. Unlike their industrial peers, managers of asset-light businesses focus little on the balance sheet. It’s as simple as that. The challenge?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

In a rapidly changing industry ecosystem, heavy investments in hard infrastructure can burden balance sheets and limit flexibility. Bharti has enjoyed compounded annual growth in sales revenues of 120% and growth in net profits of 282% per year between 2003 and 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

For one telecom provider, convincing just 10% of those customers to switch one service from a competitor was worth up to $480 million in incremental annual revenue. Take a balance-sheet view. For example, Bain & Company’s recent analysis of the U.S. Create dynamic, high-resolution customer profiles.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

There are several ratios you can look at that will help you evaluate whether your company can generate sales and control its expenses. ” Another reason you might see a very high ROA is if a company is messing with its balance sheet, explains Knight. “Sales are subject to rules as to when the revenue can be recorded.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2017

Importantly, this advancement in controls technology allows the lighting system to be controlled, owned, and operated by a third party, shifting the investment off the building’s balance sheet. How It Works. Similar to other as-a-service models, LaaS allows a customer to “rent” its ceilings to a service provider.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Many of the entries on a company's income statement and balance sheet reflect estimates, assumptions, and procedural rules. The other might want to allow for major costs on the service end, and so will wait until the service contract expires to record much of the revenue. Financial numbers, though, are different.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2017

That strengthened investment banks’ balance sheets by forcing them to scale back and to change the nature of the risks they take. As a result, their balance sheets are half as large on a risk-adjusted basis, and the capital they hold against trading positions has doubled over the past decade, our research shows.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

These factors have led to questions over the quality of banks’ balance sheets and whether many of the loans extended in recent years can actually be repaid, raising further doubts over the sustainability of the debt-fueled model. The central government must start to give more tax revenues to local governments.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

I met Slovenian entrepreneur, Sandi Cesko, in 2007 when his Ljubljana -based multi-channel retail operation, Studio Moderna , had about $70 million in sales. Scale-up means growth, and growth means jobs, wealth, and tax revenues. Stay off of ventures'' balance sheets — and get onto their income statements.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2018

Take Google’s purchase of YouTube, now a multibillion-dollar revenue stream that’s fueling the disruption of cable, or Facebook buying Instagram, which solidified its social media dominance. billion on Skype , which it hoped would increase sales on its platform by giving buyers and sellers an instant communications channel.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Using analytics, organizations have deployed bigger data sets, cheaper cloud computing power, and more aggressive algorithms to successfully standardize previously non-standard processes such as sales and service, making them more repeatable, predictable, and amenable to analytics. The future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

Walter Thompson Company for $566 million in 1987 and Ogilvy for $864 million in 1989 — big acquisitions that stretched the company’s balance sheet. You meet the bar on this lever if you are among the top 20% in your industry in your ratio of capital spending to sales. So WPP acquired the ad agencies J.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

Both of these reinforcing trends have created a tax revenue problem for governments. Firms in the euro zone are desperate for higher sales; price increases would be corporate suicide in the current, intensely competitive economic environment. These fears are emotional and fade under clear analysis.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The company’s revenue from ad sales had jumped in the past year, so it had some cash on hand. What happens to the balance sheet if we bring in paid developers?” In fact, we haven’t been able to turn one idea from a volunteer into a viable product since our first year. We’re wasting our time with them.”. Lena asked. “We

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Using analytics, organizations have deployed bigger data sets, cheaper cloud computing power, and more aggressive algorithms to successfully standardize previously non-standard processes such as sales and service, making them more repeatable, predictable, and amenable to analytics.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

With refrains of “unlock hidden value” and “increase shareholder value,” and powered by over $120 billion in assets , activist investors like Trian look for companies like GE (or Procter & Gamble) whose share price is underperforming relative to its peers (or that have large amounts of cash on their balance sheets).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

The strategy works, temporarily putting more cash on the positive side of the balance sheet. For example, last century’s retailers mailed out catalogues and then used sales feedback to adjust the offerings for the next quarter. A digital company will A/B test its web page, display ad, or online catalogue in real time.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

A company's foreign sales can approach or exceed 50 percent; its non-U.S. Use of Revenues and Margins. Similarly, companies must be more forceful in explaining the uses of revenues and margins derived from offshoring/outsourcing's competitive cost structures and local appeal. Working Conditions. Worker Transition at Home.

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Chris LoCutro

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

So we have, you know, the sales areas that are always reporting to me, you know, helping me to know, here's what's coming in. You know, here's brand new sales, here's monthly recurring revenue. It well balanced out the year, which is great. Balance sheet, we don't, we don't do debt.

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