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You Can’t Pizza Party Your Way to a Great Corporate Culture

Harmonious Workplaces

Pizza parties (with dietary alternatives), happy hours, and office games like ping pong or video games can foster team bonding and employee engagement (Müceldili & Erdil, 2016). The uncertainty of the market, unstable cash flow, and the seemingly never-ending threat of recession may force companies to make tough decisions.

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What GE’s Board Could Have Done Differently

Harvard Business

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

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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business

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. His idea was to turn investor relations on its head by using regular meetings with top-class investors as something akin to due diligence.

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Profit Leakage Calculator: Diagnose How Much Profit a Business is Losing

ConsultX

Our Consultants are meeting with Business Owners around the world every day. They are seeing first hand how many opportunities are being missed to improve profitability and cash flow just from existing operations alone. This is Profit that is being missed out on from areas of the business that aren’t operating as they should.

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Sam Zell Warns Recession Coming, Provides Opinions on 22 Topics Including Fed Tools, Equities, Real Estate, Energy, China, Brazil, Mexico, Climate Change

MishTalk

I think that the strong dollar is having enormous production on US production and US businesses. Number three there's an existing cash flow. However the 2016 EBIDA is still slightly over the Street's consensus. Valiant will host a meeting with investors later today. How bad is it? Analyst’s estimates.