Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

FCLT and McKinsey rely on readily available and machine-readable accounting data to measure myopia. However, such coarse data doesn’t capture how widely practices can vary between individual companies. It assumes that a smaller proportion of cash flows in earnings indicates a myopic firm. R&D spending.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

However, many investors seem to have concluded that the most successful companies with tens of billions of dollars of valuation today could never have justified their valuation at the start of their operation based on discounted cash flow. So, investors, and therefore managers, might be adjusting their approach to risk accordingly.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

On the one hand, there are many anecdotes suggesting that pressures to manage earnings hold back investment. On the other hand, some of what is done in the name of managing for the long term may be unmonitored waste. Some companies have great ideas, great management teams, and compelling strategies.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

The level and trend of a company’s top-line metric is an advance indicator of the success of its business model. Many of these metrics are disclosed in Facebook’s financial statements. However, how those metrics translate into revenues remains a mystery to external investors.

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ConsultX

JULY 21, 2021

Fathom draws financial data from a business or organization’s financial accounting software, or reporting spreadsheets for measurement, benchmarking, reporting, and analysis. You’ll then be able to assess the profitability and cash flow impact this project will have on the business. How does Fathom work? Fathom Integrations.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. In the largest study on climate change data and corporations, 8,000 supplier companies (that sell to 75 multinationals) reported on their level of climate risk. billion in mining projects since 2010. Fostering innovation.

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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. After all, “short-termism” does not correspond to any single quantifiable metric. We calculate that U.S.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

Statistics – the interpretation of data according to scientific method – is a robust discipline of its own, but more importantly, contributes heavily to almost all quantitative enquiry in any field. The most simple type of statistics are descriptors about a set of data: means, medians, ranges. In theory, this includes consulting.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Zig Ziglar This story is more than a quote about persistence – it’s actually a reasonable description of risk-managed investing. Meanwhile, the reputation of value-conscious investors and risk-managers goes from “champ” to “chump.” Only after the fact does the reputation of risk-managed strategies surge from “chump” to “champ.”

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Likewise, what is the right set of metrics that company executives should use to manage their subscription businesses in order to hold themselves fully accountable to their stakeholders? Then we project those granular patterns forward as if we had such data in the first place. Case Study: Blue Apron.

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