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CEOs Need Hard Data on Customer Loyalty

Harvard Business Review

Companies spend countless hours tracking financials: assets, liabilities, revenue, expenses, and cash flow. Perhaps that's the result of customer metrics long being seen as "soft" numbers with little clear connection to "hard" numbers like revenue or cash flow. The result?

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Don’t Let Your Company Get Trapped by Success

Harvard Business Review

This can be quantified by analyzing the extent to which the share prices of S&P 500 firms are driven by a firm’s present value of future growth options (PVGO) rather than cash flow from current operations. This can start by creating exploratory metrics and incentives. (3M

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4 Types of Activist Investors and How to Spot Them

Harvard Business Review

Despite metrics showing impressive overall company performance, the company’s capital deployment strategy was not maximizing shareholder dividends and/or buybacks. However, free cash flow per share remained impressive at both companies, and fixed cost ratios remained somewhat intact. Example: Jolly Inc.

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Egnyte Architecture: Lessons learned in building and scaling a multi petabyte content platform

High Scalability

It is 12 years old currently and cash flow positive. Reorganizing the way we store data in memory or on disk. We also generate quite a bit of internal application metrics using a home grown framework. How long have you been working on it? Egnyte was founded in 2007. How big is your system? How you analyze performance?

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