Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Value creation, by means of maximizing long-term free cash flow, provides the appropriate approach to judge alternative strategies and subsequent performance. To maximize long-term free cash flow, a company must properly manage its relationships with all of its stakeholders. Here's where other stakeholders come in.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

The lack of access to stable, predictable cash flows is the hard-to-see source of much of today’s economic insecurity. Financial Diaries (USFD), an unprecedented study to collect detailed cash flow data for U.S. Elaine ran a school cafeteria for 15 years, a job that came with benefits and steady pay.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2016

Corporate governance issues are constantly in the headlines. But discussions of corporate governance invariably miss the real problem: most public companies have extensive governance procedures but no governing objective. First, corporate boards must select a clear governing objective.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

They must first select the proper governing objective for their company and then gain the commitment of employees to serve that objective. The case for embracing the maximization of long-term shareholder value as the governing objective for publicly traded companies has been persuasively argued many times. The Right Objective.

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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 governance engineering, PE investors control the boards of their portfolio companies and are more actively involved in governance than public company directors and public shareholders.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2016

Why isn’t more of that cash going into developing businesses for long-term gains — the big, outsized gains that come from big bets on the future? Among many good explanations is one that deserves more airtime: compensation design changes stemming from recent reforms that, ironically, were meant to benefit long-term shareholders.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

In a perfect world, governments would have the cash and the consensus to fund and coordinate the construction of the infrastructure required to sustainably accommodate a rapidly urbanizing world. But few governments appear to have the money or the political will to foot the up-front costs to prevent or fight fragmentation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

GAAP and FASB standards require financial reporting of earnings, cash flow, and profitability – all measures that investors have traditionally examined. Some focused on personal leadership style of the CEO, others on compensation or training practices, and still others on organization governance and design.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

But there has been a shift in how these entities are governed, one that has gone unnoticed in the outcry over executive pay packages, tax inversions, offshoring, and other controversies. They mean that I can have the rights to the cash flows from a company’s shares without owning the share itself.

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Chris LoCutro

JULY 9, 2024

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

And that could easily swell to over 30+ million in the next decade as large and small corporations, as well as the government, continue to migrate to contingent labor , and account for 50% of the workforce, up from 35-40% currently. This number is expected to increase to 23 million by 2017, based on a 6.3%

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

Implications for city leaders: Leaders should try to establish a setting where entrepreneurs can create solutions that improve quality of life — without added government expense.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Will the company''s phones make headway in China, where there''s ample brand appeal but not as much personal cash flow? Considering women’s education levels and purchasing power, "can companies afford to window dress their Boards without actually harnessing the benefits of balance throughout their organizations?"

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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. A manufacturer may relocate from a coastal community because the benefits to its operations of this location are few.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. Hoping to alleviate their concerns, this article also provides concrete examples of how sustainability benefits the bottom line.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Since Immelt’s departure, GE’s stock is down another 30%, as its new CEO, John Flannery, has struggled to cope with the cash flow drain from years of problematic acquisitions, divestitures, and buybacks. When Jack Welch stepped down as CEO in 2001, GE’s defined benefit (DB) plan was sitting on a surplus of $14.6

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

GM play-acted, magnificently, at resilience," Moore writes, with the government and the public complicit, all while the company continued to make cars that killed people. It''s a trend that''s aided by investors'' realization that solar projects, in particular, offer low risk and a strong cash flow. Andrea Ovans.

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Chris LoCutro

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Grace and peace, Chris 548 | The mental and emotional benefits of running a debt-free business Part 1 Chris LoCurto 0:00 On today's episode, we have an exciting topic to discuss that you as leaders or business owners cannot miss the mental and emotional benefits of running a debt free business that is coming up next. We are not done.

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Vantage Circle

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

" "For many organizations, labor costs (payroll tax and employee benefits) can be 70% of their operating cost! Access to benefits. Generally speaking, furloughed workers are entitled to the same employee benefits that they would enjoy under normal circumstances. Difference Between A Furlough And Laid-Off Employees.

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Walk Me

AUGUST 18, 2022

Cash is the most liquid asset of any business, including hospitals and clinical services. Any manager must know what they can liquidate quickly and sell for the hospital’s long-term benefit and sustainability. Rolling forecasting also affects cash flow as demand changes due to external factors such as Covid-19.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

government. demand from small and medium-size sedans to to light trucks and SUVs and the long-term need for GM to make the transition to electric and self-driving cars, I think that GM is smart to act now while its cash flow can sustain the shutdown of these facilities and reinvestment in new products.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

.; 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.; can benefit consumers and the economy with lower cost (although foreign operations often sell in foreign markets).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Whether you’re a small business that’s dependent on steady cash flow to make payroll, or a Fortune-100 multinational that processes millions in accounts receivable daily – this will impact you. The variable in the equation is whether the approach is industry led, or guided by government regulators.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

and Canadian governments as well as the United Automobile Workers (UAW) through its Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association (VEBA) Trust. government sold off all of its GM holdings in December 2013, U.S. The pump-and-dump hedge funds will come back to GM’s buyback well year after year until the cash flow once again runs dry.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

The innovative system promised to reduce local governments’ energy consumption and maintenance costs and improve their constituent relationships. Cameron hadn’t realized how difficult it would be for local governments to change the way they did business, even when they had the best of intentions. “Higher!”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

In the late 1990s the government of Brazil privatized the country's freight lines. Any proposal, the rules said, should: remove obstacles to growing revenues, minimize up-front expenditure, provide benefits immediately (rather than paying off in the long term), and. reuse existing resources. Making better decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Adding jobs is a capital investment, not a cash flow issue. The government has tried to stem this trend with positive results by providing backstops through the Small Business Administration. Why aren’t successful small businesses adding more jobs? And there is incentive for banks to lend towards the higher end of the scale.

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Chris LoCutro

JANUARY 21, 2025

When cash flow is tight, its easy to get stuck in reactionary mode, making quick decisions that may not serve you in the long run. These actions can improve cash flow and reduce stress across your organization. So let's dive into how you can lead with confidence when cash flow is tight. But there.

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Chris LoCutro

APRIL 1, 2025

We're going to be tackling a game- changing concept that can solve one of the biggest struggles small business owners face, and that is unpredictable cash flow. Even medium sized businesses on and up, but mainly for the small business owner is that cash flow. So my guest today is Stu McLaren, the membership guy.

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Chief Executive

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Customers, employees, and suppliers with long-term relationships with the company benefit as well. More specifically, they should compare the forecasts of sales growth rates, operating profit margins, and investment requirements in their cash flow valuation model with the levels needed to justify the current stock price.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2017

For instance, getting rid of a tax credit might hurt a few companies a lot but benefit everyone else a little bit.). Getting tax reform done requires strong political leadership, significant input from government staffers with technical expertise, and development of a public consensus of the need for change.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

There are some neurological benefits to an older brain, up to about age 70, but adaptability is not one of them. Trump Mortgage , Trump Steaks , and Trump University all may have gained him some short-term cash flow, but it came at the expense of degrading his brand or leaving him open to lawsuits for fraud.

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