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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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Can Best Buy Beat Amazon with Service?

Harvard Business Review

Amazon announced its quarterly sales were up 30% and its operating cash flow was up 8% to $3.4 While Amazon lost a small amount of money on a GAP basis, its sizeable cash flow funds continued rapid expansion. Current estimates are that Best Buy's service revenues are $3 billion. billion for the trailing 12 months.

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4 Types of Activist Investors and How to Spot Them

Harvard Business Review

In recent years, both companies exhibited compressed margins, flat revenue growth, and lagging returns. However, free cash flow per share remained impressive at both companies, and fixed cost ratios remained somewhat intact. revenue composition, economic factors, etc.) Example: Happy Co. more efficiently.

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

High Scalability

What is your revenue model? Customers start with a 15-day free evaluation trial period and after that, they convert to paid account with revenue model based on number of seats, storage and other enterprise features. It is 12 years old currently and cash flow positive. We later went on and raised $137.5

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should you get fired for bad behavior at a football game, I’m worried my boss is laying a paper trail to fire me, and more

Alison Green

They will also understandably want to prioritize roles that are revenue-producing, and mine is not. Many other colleagues have a 5+ year history here, including through other reorganizations, so I think their varied skill set is better known than mine. Is there any chance of this working? Be detailed here.)