N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

It has the strongest balance sheet, is the most profitable mining business in the world (measured by underlying earnings and cash generation), has substantially reduced costs (by some $6 billion), working capital ($3.5 billion in the last 5 years).

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Gordon Restructuring Leadership CEO 150

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

PL and CM: Walmart and Pfizer’s former consumer healthcare division are a couple of great case studies in capabilities coherence. This, in turn, increases the company’s leverage with suppliers and allows it to be extraordinarily efficient in moving inventory and managing working capital.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

It has been built without outside capital, entirely. If you analyze this case study, what strikes you is that Sridhar''s first business idea was not fundable. He grew the business organically, with revenue and profits, not outside capital. Acquisition offers started floating in. They CAN raise money now.

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Incubator Finance Entrepreneur Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

As more people depended on him, he spent his working capital, and the business failed. When artisans have no understanding of their cash flows, they fail prey to spending a big percentage of their working capital, without meaning to, on non-business issues that usually cripple their operations.

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Books Guidelines Banking Telecommunications 13

Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Once the $1 million revenue milestone is crossed, entrepreneurs find it easier to find additional customers, manage working capital, and access funding, whether it is credit or equity. In my roundtables, the vast majority of entrepreneurs I work with are in this rather vulnerable pre $1 million revenue stage. on a global scale.

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Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Finance Incubator 54