EBITDA, Productivity and Succession

Beyond Recruitment: N2Growth’s COO Search Solutions Enhance Organizational Performance

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2024

It’s the COO’s purview to maintain a keen eye on the operational successes and shortfalls, constantly seeking to optimize processes and implement changes where required, be it internally or externally. Also, as a part of the executive management team , COOs frequently play an intricate role in policy development and governance.

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The Beliefs that Built a Global Brewer

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2012

Now the largest beer company in the world, AB InBev reported a double digit EBITDA growth rate and almost 30% growth in earnings per share. Observers tend to overlook the "dream" talk and chalk up AB InBev's extraordinary success to its relentless cost cutting culture. Anheuser's EBITDA in 2007, prior to its acquisition, was 23%.

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Strategies for Succeeding in Today’s Brazil

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Executives cannot be successful using yesterday’s approach to the Brazilian market, which focused on tapping into the unmet needs of a growing middle class, burgeoning business community, and an ever-growing public sector. times their earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA). times EBITDA.

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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique.

Resources

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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

But having a grasp of terms like EBITDA and net present value are important no matter where you sit on the org chart. “If you can speak the language of money, you will be more successful,” he says. Boosting your financial expertise requires figuring out the metrics by which your company measures success.

Finance

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Whole Foods Market Needs More than Price-Tinkering

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2014

To be clear, Whole Foods’s financials are still healthy: in FY 2013, its revenue was $12.9B, EBITDA $1.2B, and earnings per share increased by 19%. First, its success has drawn in new competition. Grocery chains such as Kroger now offer similar products (often with discount private label offerings).

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Scaling Is Hard. Here's How Akamai Did It.

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

But once the company has honed in on a strong value proposition and found initial product-market fit, what is the best approach to scaling it? billion in revenue, over $1 billion in gross profit and $500 million in EBITDA. And what lessons can be applied to the early decisions you make as a start-up? After all, scaling is hard.

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Divest With Care

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

By this, we mean the handful of things a company does to offer products or services its customers love, and that its competitors can't come close to matching. Nor should a company divest an underperforming product or service that, by any reasonable assessment, should be thriving in its capabilities system. GE-NBC/Universal.

Due Diligence

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Entrepreneurs Need a Better Way to Cash Out

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

The most successful, visionary entrepreneurs dream not of millions of dollars, but of a world where their products change culture. But analysts are judging EBITDA, P/E ratios, quarterly growth, and cashflows – which don’t always correlate with long-term value creation.

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Publishing Is Not Dying

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2014

Samir Husni, Director of the Magazine Innovation Center, also points out that in recent years publishers have taken concepts from other media platforms, like All Recipes , HGTV , and Food Network , and turned them into successful print brands. Last year, News Corp’s newspaper division reported EBITDA of $795 million on $6.7

Venture Capitalist

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How Do You Rank the World’s Best CEOs?

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

To develop consistent and reliable data, we rely on a scientifically developed and standardized survey instrument designed to gauge public perceptions of companies on seven dimensions: finance, leadership, workplace, citizenship, governance, products, and innovation. We call it the RepTrak scorecard.

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The Secrets to TripAdvisor's Impressive Scale

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Recently, I wrote about Akamai, a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet's fabric. TripAdvisor, in effect, was a model lean start-up with an engineering-driven, product-focused founder.

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Category Creation Is the Ultimate Growth Strategy

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

While I've helped many clients grow their products, brands, and overall businesses, there is nothing as exhilarating as helping a company create an entirely new category. Much of Keurig's success comes from its superior brewer technology and wide variety of K-Cups. Few growth strategies match the economics of category creation.

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B2C Strategy B2B Waterman

Every Fast-Growing Company Has to Combat Overload

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

Your business is a success, but you feel like a failure. Norwegian encouraged its employees, in other words, to adopt an owner’s mindset: a powerful sense of responsibility for all of their employees, customers, products and decisions. The result is a self-correcting organization that learns and changes almost automatically.

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Beyond Recruitment: N2Growth’s COO Search Solutions Enhance Organizational Performance

The Beliefs that Built a Global Brewer

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Strategies for Succeeding in Today’s Brazil

Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Whole Foods Market Needs More than Price-Tinkering

Scaling Is Hard. Here's How Akamai Did It.

Divest With Care

Entrepreneurs Need a Better Way to Cash Out

Publishing Is Not Dying

How Do You Rank the World’s Best CEOs?

The Secrets to TripAdvisor's Impressive Scale

Category Creation Is the Ultimate Growth Strategy

Every Fast-Growing Company Has to Combat Overload

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