Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

In our recent HBR article , we argued that financial statements fail to capture the value created by modern digital companies. Some of these ideas contradict traditional financial thinking whereas others seem highly controversial or pessimistic. We distilled seven key insights from those discussions.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

It failed to meet its revenue and subscriber growth targets. In a recent HBR article , we claimed that modern digital companies such as Uber, Facebook, and Alphabet play an increasingly important role in the economy, but their financial statements fail to capture company’s main value drivers. What caused this slump?

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

However, there will be times when you have to feel the cash flow pressure and need to find clients.right now! This helps discern where to focus your time, money and efforts and keeps you from being busy but not productive. Here's a sample script you can use when meeting someone at a networking event : Make Personal Contact.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Technology combined with data is a matter of life and death for professional services firms where the “product” is a combination of insights and expertise. It prevents you from generating reliable cash-flow forecasts and makes it incredibly difficult to manage resources. directly integrated with core financials?

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

However, there will be times when you have to feel the cash flow pressure and need to find clients.right now! This helps discern where to focus your time, money and efforts and keeps you from being busy but not productive. Here's a sample script you can use when meeting someone at a networking event : Make Personal Contact.

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Women in Consulting

AUGUST 28, 2014

Technology can help increase productivity and provide convenience in running a business. Go To Meeting – Go To Meeting allows you to easily work with anyone, anywhere by providing web conferencing and online meeting tools. Financial Management. By: Renee Daggett. Communication and Networking.

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MishTalk

MARCH 21, 2014

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth to 5.0% There is evidence that this debt growth has become excessive and non-productive. Based on our analysis, our baseline case is that China may slow from the current level of 7.7% over the next two years. trillion of private sector debt to a $9.7 trillion GDP.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 27, 2023

And —rather than selling physical products, they deal in less tangible resources like time, insights, and expertise – billed either by hour or by project. Professional Services Overview Professional services firms – such as IT professional services firms, marketing/PR firms, or legal or financial advisers – are at an inflection point.

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Martinka Consulting

MARCH 5, 2021

I told him we would not meet in person until he talked to his wife about it. Have accurate and consistent financial statements (this often means don’t blend your business and personal checkbooks). Pay them a fair wage, have a good culture, and keep productivity high. Put a lot of time in on the non-financial factors.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Energy production is extremely capital intense, and often accompanied by negative free cash flow. With oil prices plunging, investors are questioning the ability of some issuers to meet their debt obligations. oil production which requires abundant capital,” Lafakis said. Junk bonds of Energy XXI Ltd.

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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

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

If a company has beat or missed its EPS targets by less than two cents , that means the company has nipped and tucked its quarterly results just enough to meet the target EPS number it committed to analysts. It assumes that a smaller proportion of cash flows in earnings indicates a myopic firm. Corporate culture.

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Harvard Business

MAY 28, 2018

Then a new CFO joined the company: Masashi Oka, a financial industry veteran who had played a key role in transforming Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group-owned Union Bank in the US. 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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Harvard Business

MARCH 29, 2018

While this might seem like a radical step for hospitals, it is exactly the transition that occurred 100 years ago in the business world in general when companies shifted from a departmental or functional structure to a decentralized, business-unit structure that that was more aligned with and accountable for its products, services, and customers.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

How can you boost your financial acumen? 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.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Disruptions in the supply chain may affect production processes that depend on unpriced natural capital assets such as biodiversity, groundwater, clean air, and climate. These unpriced natural capital costs are generally internalized until events like floods or droughts cause disruption to production processes or commodity price fluctuation.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

” The UK Government is launching an inquiry into buybacks , due to concerns that they “may be crowding out the allocation of surplus capital to productive investment.” A comprehensive survey of financial executives concluded that “repurchases are made out of the residual cash flow after investment spending.”

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ConsultX

MARCH 1, 2022

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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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. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. The differences were dramatic. for all other companies.

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