Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Its CEO, John Fallon, says of this approach, “It is by having a bigger impact on education — measured by expanding access and improving outcomes — that we will make Pearson a faster-growing and more sustainably profitable company.” Making PbR Work. ” Health care.

Health Care 8

Health Care Incentives Education Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

To our surprise, it sold in 20 minutes for 25% more than the asking price. With growing congestion a global megatrend, companies have a choice. For instance, Procter & Gamble’s logistics costs already exceed such key value-adding costs as manufacturing, even though the company mainly ships by land.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

The McKinsey Global Institute, in conjunction with FCLT Global, recently released research stating that long-term-oriented companies perform better than those that focus on short-term results. While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex.

EPS 8

EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2016

Companies have invested millions of dollars in big data and analytics, but recent reports suggest most have yet to see a payoff on these investments. In an age where data is the new oil, how are smart companies extracting insights from these vast data reservoirs in order to fuel profitable decisions?

Advertising 8

Advertising Retail Content Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

There is little consensus as to whether firms that find themselves spun off from other companies – either as new, standalone companies, or under the stewardship of new parent companies – perform better or worse than they did before. Does the business have a complete, balanced, and cohesive management team?

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

For those companies with the skill to pull it off, it worked. Construction equipment and disk-drive manufacturing required heavy machinery, distribution facilities, and immense amounts of working capital. They’re financed with equity—in other words, a stake in the company. They are not asset-heavy.

Christensen 8

Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

You may have another kind of track record, such as working successfully at a large company. He decided to go after Salesforce.com with a Software-as-a-Service Customer Relationship Management product at a price-point that was one sixth of what Salesforce.com, the market leader, charged. Acquisition offers started floating in.

Incubator 8

Incubator Finance Entrepreneur Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

These card networks were allowed to charge their members just enough to cover cost and provide working capital. Then the banks decided to turn the associations into for-profit companies, IPO them, and cash out. Thousands of companies belong to them and many belong to several.

IPO 8

IPO Succession Technology Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

Consequently, entrepreneurs have a sense of urgency that is seldom seen in established companies, where any opportunity is part of a portfolio and resources are more readily available. At a new venture's outset, its founders control only their own human, social, and financial capital.

Definition 10

Definition Entrepreneur Business Model Tactics 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Smartly reducing assets devoted to activities that earn less than their cost of capital requires good links with evolving market realities. ( My previous article emphasized how and why these links are broken in many companies.) Most often, the single biggest driver of cash-out and cash-in is the selling cycle.

Debt to Equity Ratio 10

Debt to Equity Ratio Cost of Capital Strategy Disruptive Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

Pay gaps are rising between companies more than within them. In 2015 low- and middle-income families devoted about one-third of their earnings to housing, and they have seen housing prices rise 25%–50% since the mid-1990s. When a business, rather than a household, faces such volatility, it responds by building up working capital.

Health Care 13

Health Care Insurance Video Transportation 13

Harvard Business Review

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. We’ve seen companies such as Unilever, AT&T, and Amazon succeed by sticking resolutely to a long-term view.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

Having two missions, however, sometimes creates conflicts that can slow companies' growth. Their fast-growing companies work in almost every industry, from online retail to manufacturing to professional services, and together they have created more than 200,000 jobs and generated revenues of more than $5B in 2011.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Business Model Long-term Goal 8