Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

We also know that private equity funds have outperformed public equity markets over the last three decades , even after the fees they charge are accounted for. Such investments carry significant equity risk, suggesting that equity-based benchmarks like public market equivalents (PMEs) are appropriate.

Cash Flow 14

Cash Flow Engineering Government Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The market has come to question whether its growth can be sustained, and with what underlying earnings. Over time, a company's value becomes a function of both growth and cash flow. What is a benchmark for a good margin? Its stock price peaked weeks after the company went public in 2011 and is down about 80% since.

Revenue 14

Revenue Cash Flow SaaS Metrics 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2015

Typically, marketing teams toil every quarter to document portfolio performance and add commentary (see an example here ). did this portfolio outperform the benchmark?). There may be no better example of this than the financial services industry. To do this work, the system starts with the goals of the report (e.g.,

Scaling 15

Scaling Cash Flow Benchmarking Hospitality 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

And they help companies benchmark their own performance against peers. Payment startups like Square and cash-flow management startups like Pulse App also capture transaction data that can help them map out commercial graphs for small businesses. But they are not the only ones eyeing this new opportunity.

Cash Flow 15

Cash Flow Software SaaS User Experience 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

One challenge today is that few companies have these numbers at their fingertips, and the lack of common definitions and publicly available statistics makes benchmarking difficult. equity markets* on BusinessWeek's 2008 list ended up underperforming broader market indices between March 2008 and March 2013.

Cash Flow 10

Cash Flow Assets Benchmarking Sales 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Marketing is in the midst of an ROI revolution. The arrival of advanced analytics and plentiful data have allowed marketers to demonstrate return on investment with a degree of precision that’s never been possible before. To date, however, the reality of marketing analytics has fallen short of the promise.

Benchmarking 9

Benchmarking Metrics Advertising ROI 9

Walk Me

AUGUST 18, 2022

If a healthcare organization does not care for patients adequately due to a lack of resources following poor prediction of trends and market changes, they may face litigation from patients or challenges from Quality Improvement Organisations (QIOs). Capital spending and cash flow are more accessible to manage more efficiently.

Manager 52

Manager Hospitality Insurance Operations 52

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

When Eat24 tried to raise money, the founders were laughed at by angels and VC funds including Benchmark, Redpoint, Excel, Insight, and Alibaba. To small restaurants with tight cash flow, these gestures meant the world. Back then, GrubHub was already the leading online ordering app. To a large franchise, they wouldn’t.

Marketing 14

Marketing Cash Flow Advertising Benchmarking 14

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

How do you market your product? We started with SEM/SEO but over time as we grew, we used many channels to acquire customers like Social media, Biz dev, Trade shows, SEM, SEO, Inbound marketing and high touch sales for Enterprise customers. It is 12 years old currently and cash flow positive. Egnyte was founded in 2007.

Scaling 21

Scaling Engineering A/B Testing Manager 21