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Navigating a Downturn: Strategies for Business Resilience

Tom Spencer

Businesses should adopt conservative financial management practices , such as effective cash flow monitoring, prudent budgeting, and building a large war chest of cash and other liquid assets. The company, with its 100% commitment to remote work, today generates more than $400 million per year in sales revenue.

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Investment Banking 101: Understanding the Industry

Tom Spencer

What Investment Bankers Do There are several key roles within investment banking, including corporate finance, sales and trading, and research. How would you value a company with negative historical cash flow? He studied Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. How do you calculate the cost of equity?

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Overcoming Business Challenges with Business Consultants

Business Consulting Agency

According to a study by McKinsey, 45% of companies cite “lack of understanding of local market dynamics” as a significant barrier to market entry. A study by the Hinge Research Institute revealed that companies working with consultants experienced a 26% increase in profitability. This results in a lack of growth.

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Breaking Down Case Interview Frameworks – M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions)

Management Consulted

Check out our breakdowns on Profitability , Market Sizing , and Market Study to become a complete expert on any kind of framework you’ll need in your case interview. All acquirers will want to increase cash flow, but the length of their investment in the company will differ, depending on the type. Missed out on Parts 1-3?

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Business Book Review: Boston Consulting Group On Strategy

Management Consulted

The focus here is completely on cash flows and not projections. Though this perspective was first written in 1988, it is a good historical record as it shows the link between time utilization and sales. This study will clear up many of those fundamental mis-understandings related to product-based segmentation.

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You’ve Got Some ‘Splainin’ To Do!

The Fearless Marketer

Do you improve profitability, increase sales, reduce costs, improve customer service, increase cash flow or help them get the job they’ve always wanted? Do you have case studies, stories, or testimonials that build a case that you know what you’re doing and have succeeded with similar types of clients?

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The End-of-Quarter Sales Rush Costs Companies Money

Harvard Business

Ask any organization what’s happening in the sales department on the last few days of the month and the entire last week of any fiscal quarter. Sales teams are closing deals, at all costs. million sales transactions from the anonymized data of 151 U.S. But sales managers also have to take some blame.

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