Zenefits

AUGUST 3, 2022

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Small Business 52

Small Business Human Resources Digital Transformation Cash Flow 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

Fully 79 percent of companies, including 91 percent with annual revenues greater than $1 billion, use discounted cash flow techniques. There is less consistency, however, in how organizations estimate cash flows and determine the weighted average cost of capital at which those cash flows are discounted.

Cash Flow 15

Cash Flow Assets Revenue Benchmarking 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

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.

Cash Flow 16

Cash Flow Assets Metrics Reorganization 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

When executives evaluate a potential investment, whether it's to build a new plant, enter a new market, or acquire a company, they weigh its cost against the future cash flows they expect will spring from it. To make sure they're comparing apples to apples, they discount those future cash flows to arrive at their net present value.

Cash Flow 15

Cash Flow Benchmarking Assets Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2016

Another company, in the agricultural technology sector, chose free cash flow as the primary long-term incentive measure. Facing headwinds to growth, executives delayed R&D and capital investments to hit three-year free-cash-flow goals. In effect, the pay plan rewarded them for sacrificing the long term.

Cash Flow 12

Cash Flow Manager Government Digital Transformation 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2012

More-specific financial drivers vary among companies and can include earnings growth, cash flow growth, and return on invested capital. The three commonly cited financial drivers of value creation are sales, costs, and investments. Naturally, financial metrics can't capture all value-creating activities.

Banking 17

Banking Cash Flow Metrics Government 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2015

For example, when it comes to driving shareholder value, there are two fundamental components of cash flow: profitability and growth. Should you invest equally in both? If not, which of these two should get the nod? Should you focus on getting costs under control or expanding into a new geography?

Cash Flow 15

Cash Flow Benchmarking Assets Operations 15

Jackie Nagel

APRIL 18, 2023

Photo by Jason Goodman on Unsplash Let’s dive into the different types of planning: Strategic planning is the highest-level planning that occurs within an enterprise. A well-planned and executed strategic plan helps build a sustainable competitive advantage and achieve long-term growth.

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Cash Flow Strategic Planning Operations Succession Planning 130

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.

Balance Sheet 12

Balance Sheet Cash Flow Banking Fixed Costs 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

If your company’s two-day offsite involves a group of senior executives getting together to develop a strategic plan, and they do so right there and then, my guess is it’s not a strategic plan at all. It’s an operational plan. Here are my suggestions for making it easier: Tap your stakeholders.

Manager 15

Manager Cash Flow Strategic Planning Staffing 15

Alison Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

The organization has always had a board of directors that participated in strategic planning and volunteering for the organization. Employer said I retired, but I quit because Im frustrated I founded a nonprofit organization over 30 years ago, and for many years was the sole employee.

Reorganization 91

Reorganization Cash Flow Revenue Media 91