2016 Article Cash Flow Productivity 
Martinka Consulting
FEBRUARY 14, 2017
A December 2, 2016 Wall Street Journal article was titled, “ Car Sales Roll Along; Aided by Discounts.*” The gist of the article was sales are up over the same month a year earlier and the average discount was 11%, versus 9.4% He knew cash flow. Or should we say he knew short-term cash flow.
BCG
DECEMBER 15, 2016
Article Thursday, December 15, 2016 Life insurers are feeling the squeeze. Increasingly, managers find themselves in sometimes heated debate, pitted against their companies’ actuaries, product managers, risk and finance executives, and boards of directors.
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Martinka Consulting
APRIL 26, 2019
More businesses sold after being advertised on bizbuysell.com than any other year, and 2017 was 25% higher than 2016. We have a few articles in our “writing folder” (articles I’ve saved to write about) on bad management, how technology is replacing people, and employee unhappiness. Synergistic product line firm.
Harvard Business
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. Eventually, the company’s share price nosedived.
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. Because of these dubious decisions, GE’s ratio of debt to earnings has soared from 1.5 in 2013 to 3.7
Harvard Business
MAY 28, 2018
By 2016, the rise of smart phones seemed to have made the company less relevant: Its revenues were at almost the same level they had been a full decade earlier. Yet investors can be a powerful strategic resource, providing not only capital but also less-biased insight into the threats and opportunities that a company encounters.
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 19, 2017
Previously dominated by the likes of newspapers, magazines, gyms, utilities, and telecommunications firms, more products and services are being offered to more people through subscriptions than ever before. Philippe Marion/Getty Images. The subscription business model is booming. Case Study: Blue Apron. that aggregate sales in the U.S.
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