Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Amazon, born 24 years ago, had captured about 45% of online retail commerce in the United States by 2017, but still stood for just about 5% of total US retail gross merchandise volume in that year. About half of those will do so in half the time, and may more than double their operating cash flows by 2030.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

tax law is likely to increase after-tax cash flows for U.S.-based There’s a strong argument that they should invest in growth , and the newly available cash offers them a unique chance to do so. Initial reports suggest that many executives are at a loss as to what to do with the newfound cash. The new U.S.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 30, 2014

In other words, there may be more to the recent flash-crash than just one weak retail sales datum a deeper malaise surrounding weak profits may be driving events. Is there a growing divergence between net income and operating cash-flow? Is Your Favorite Company Cooking the Books? The answer is binary: yes or no. If so (i.e.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 25, 2015

Rising vacancy rates and plummeting rents are increasingly common in Chinese malls and department stores, despite official data showing a sharp rebound in retail sales that helped the world's second-largest economy beat expectations in the third quarter. Malaysia-based Parkson (3368.HK),

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

When weather conditions are on average adverse over days, weeks, or entire seasons, shortfalls in sales cause reduced cash flows and can lead to financial distress and business failure. Research shows that abnormal weather disrupts the operating and financial performance of 70% of businesses worldwide. These disruptions add up.

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MishTalk

MAY 14, 2014

Retail sales also grew more slowly than expected in April, and the furniture market stalled as fewer families moved into new homes. Rates of return on commercial property and infrastructure, and cash flows for developers and local government, have been deteriorating.

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Harvard Business

MAY 6, 2016

Another company, in the agricultural technology sector, chose free cash flow as the primary long-term incentive measure. Facing headwinds to growth, executives delayed R&D and capital investments to hit three-year free-cash-flow goals. Eventually, the company’s share price nosedived.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2017

It’s been more than 25 years since Bill Gates dismissed retail banks as “dinosaurs,” but the statement may be as true today as it was then. Other sectors of retail lending have not fared much better. Banking for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has been astonishingly unaffected by the rise of the Internet.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

At Decathlon, a sports equipment retailer with 80,000 employees , their form of corporate liberation is strongly supported by the CEO. Michelin is a huge company in a relatively mature industry, but it has still managed to nearly double its free cash flow since 2015, to €1.509 billion ($1.75

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Even a star company like Nigeria’s online retailer Jumia ( known by some as the potential “African Amazon” ) is struggling to return profits to early investor Rocket Internet, of Germany. Why the downbeat mood? Toyota and Yamaha have found motorbike customers through such social group structures.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 24, 2017

Lawyers are at the helms of banks, biotech companies, high-tech firms, internet startups, and retail outfits, as well as utilities and pharmaceuticals. We did not observe an obvious selection bias in which industries hired lawyer CEOs. Our research produces two conclusions.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2017

The lack of access to stable, predictable cash flows is the hard-to-see source of much of today’s economic insecurity. Financial Diaries (USFD), an unprecedented study to collect detailed cash flow data for U.S. But this close-up look at cash flows suggests new routes to helping families. households.

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Seth Godin Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

It’s an investment in future cash flows, but it can be fraught, because, unlike a car, you can’t take a company for a test drive, and they usually need more than a periodic tune-up and charging station visit. Companies usually start and end with their founders. One way to look at this is the think of the assets you’ve built.

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Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2016

“It takes time to get a consistent cash flow going. I wanted to focus solely on retail and consumer goods — the industry where I had the greatest experience — and I couldn’t always do that,” she says. Principles to Remember. In 2010 she left her position to “look for that dream job.”

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 28, 2016

AT&T is merely paying — actually, overpaying — for the cash flows from those assets up front. And e-commerce retailers need ways to draw consumers into their stores. ” The logic is seductive but doesn’t pass the value creation test. There’s no net benefit. Hardware without content is useless.

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Harvard Business

MAY 1, 2017

The Brady-Ryan plan is based on a “destination-based cash flow tax” (DBCFT) that is also mistakenly labeled a “border-adjustment tax” and has five critical features: A reduced rate, down to 20%. That plan has dominated tax reform dialogue for the last six months, and unfortunately so.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 16, 2015

If we look for example on cap rates on retail, if we look at it on multifamily, office, hospitality, we can bring it up here from the Bloomberg we can see that the cap rates are the top line and then the green line helps to illustrate the spread over Treasuries which is the gray line on the bottom. Number three there's an existing cash flow.

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