Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex. But the other indicators probably pick up legitimate differences in how companies in the sample operate, as opposed to whether they are myopic. Are all share repurchases myopic?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time.

Financial 28

Financial Report Cash Flow Metrics 28

Martinka Consulting

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Good employees are hard to find and often are not in the job market. Great employees with industry knowledge and experience are in the job market even less. In simple terms, if your primary motivation is acquiring a customer base, you are acquiring market share. Just talk to any executive recruiter. Yes, we can!

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

On June 25, 2018, Facebook lost market capitalization of more than $100 billion in just two hours of trading after it announced its quarterly performance, despite exceeding analysts’ earnings forecasts. The level and trend of a company’s top-line metric is an advance indicator of the success of its business model.

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Financial Report Company Metrics 28

MishTalk

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Though I don’t believe that markets follow math, it’s striking how closely market action in recent years has followed a “log-periodic bubble” as described by Didier Sornette (see Increasingly Immediate Impulses to Buy the Dip ). I have been prepared to underperform for the fun of being proved right when markets crash.

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Cash Flow Trends Policies Marketing 70

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. “Stranded assets” are investments that become obsolete due to regulatory, environmental, or market constraints.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. public market capitalization over this period.

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Management Metrics Financial Company 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2017

They argue that the market has become saturated because of the barriers to entry are low (do we really need 53 subscription box companies offering sex products?), The majority of the disclosures they provided at the time were standard top-down metrics (e.g., grocery market were almost $800 billion, only 1.2%

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