LSA Global

MAY 9, 2019

We believe that employees need to better understand the key factors that affect a company’s operations and financial strength to improve decision-making and strategy execution. How can you expect to pitch a new strategy or product if you are unable to articulate its potential revenue, costs, and return on investment? Cash flow.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

Digital companies, however, consider scientists’ and software workers’ and product development teams’ time to be the company’s most valuable resource. Business students are taught to value a company based on the discounted amounts of future cash flows or earnings.

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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

Why isn’t more of that cash going into developing businesses for long-term gains — the big, outsized gains that come from big bets on the future? For example, one large technology company embraced a strategy to win through new digital businesses. Eventually, the company’s share price nosedived.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

After all, if you’re trying to sell a product or strategy, you need to be able to demonstrate that it is both practical and high margin. “The decision-makers will want to see a simple model that shows revenue, costs, overhead, and cash flow,” he says. ” Focus on key metrics. Overcome your fears.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

After all, “short-termism” does not correspond to any single quantifiable metric. It started with developing a proprietary Corporate Horizon Index. Our belief is that the earnings of long-term companies will rely less on accounting decisions and more on underlying cash flow than other companies.

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Harvard Business

JULY 13, 2016

Before investing a nickel in developing your message or turning on the loudspeaker, you need to be sure that once target buyers try your offering, they will love it and will want to continue paying you forever. Identify the right metrics. No strategy is static. Inertia isn’t love, and feedback isn’t strategy.

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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? The majority of the disclosures they provided at the time were standard top-down metrics (e.g., Case Study: Blue Apron.

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