Cash Flow Comparison Productivity Strategy 
Martinka Consulting
AUGUST 6, 2018
First, five points from the article I found interesting and then some comparisons to other areas of business. A 1932 research paper showed firms had loaded up with cash and post-crash, “companies were flush with cash and investors beleaguered,” which they wouldn’t pay out. Adjusted Ebitda or adjusted earnings are the norm.
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
The observation that many “unicorn” companies with no profits — and sometimes no revenues or even fully developed products — get valued so highly makes me skeptical of the idea that the capital market is systematically myopic. Some companies have great ideas, great management teams, and compelling strategies.
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Harvard Business
MAY 6, 2016
With the best of intentions, many proxy advisors and long-term investors have widely blessed three years as appropriate, adopting three-year pay for performance as their standard comparison. Their measurements conflict with their managerial inclinations, encouraging them to use earnings booked today to immediately return cash to shareholders.
Harvard Business
APRIL 26, 2017
Recent analysis by Bain and SAP found that only 7% of bank credit products could be handled digitally from end to end. And our analysis suggests there are strategies that they can use to compete successfully online. The marketing, underwriting, and servicing of SME loans have largely taken a backseat.
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 20, 2017
Executives say that they lose 40% of their strategy’s potential value to breakdowns in execution. In our experience at Bain & Company, however, this strategy-to-performance gap is rarely the result of shortcomings in implementation; it is because the plans are flawed from the start. Value flexibility.
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