BCG

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Notable successes emerged in 2015, showing that value creation is possible and signaling important opportunities for many companies in the years ahead. In 2015, unlike in other years during the industry’s sluggish recovery from the Great Recession, M&A activity was not a route to value creation.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. The returns to society and the overall economy were equally impressive.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Since at least the time of Frederick Taylor, the father of “scientific management,” control has been central to corporate organization: Control of costs, of prices, of investment and—not least—of people. When a new project comes in, the manager does not devise a plan to complete it.

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Harvard Business

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. billion in 2015 for Alstom’s business of making coal-fired turbines for power plants. in 2013 to 3.7

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2016

For example, in 2015, Jennifer Braus bought Systems Design West, which serves hundreds of municipal firehouses in the Pacific Northwest by handling billing to insurance companies for their emergency ambulance transports.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2017

The main cause of the operating losses, however, has been organizations’ lack of discipline in managing the size of their workforces, which account for roughly half of all hospital expenses. The following areas deserve special management attention. All these problems contribute to diminished cash flows.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

“The decision-makers will want to see a simple model that shows revenue, costs, overhead, and cash flow,” he says. “You’re not managing specific business decisions, you’re trying to understand and internalize how the models work” and the assumptions they make. What if revenue was higher?

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