HR Digest

MAY 11, 2022

The layoffs will mainly be for Carvana employees in operational groups as the company seeks to “better align staffing and expense levels with sales volumes.”. Apart from Carvana employees layoffs, the company will also be taking other measures to streamline its operational activities. Carvana Employees Layoffs.

EBITDA 52

EBITDA Retail Fixed Costs Restructuring 52

Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2020

That uncertainty and inability to be in command of business operations makes us anxious. This is a time to share the challenges regarding fixed costs, debt, obligations and the cost of doing business. Use this opportunity to talk to younger generations in the family about business operations and the trials ahead.

Crisis 70

Crisis Fixed Costs Open-book Social Capital 70

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

This is the essence of Groupon's declaration last week that it will remove the controversial accounting metric called Adjusted Consolidated Segment Operating Income (ACSOI) from its financial statements. ACSOI essentially measures Groupon's profits before subtracting its subscriber-acquisition costs and stock option-based compensation.

Christensen 18

Christensen Fixed Costs Metrics Venture Funding 18

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex. But the other indicators probably pick up legitimate differences in how companies in the sample operate, as opposed to whether they are myopic. Overly optimistic financial statements.

EPS 8

EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The essence of the phenomenon is the fact that each stage in the supply chain plans its capital projects and operations, including inventory levels, based on its future expectations. Macroeconomic data during the 2008 financial crisis show the bullwhip effect operating on a much broader scale. For example , U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. billion in 2013, and operating profits increased 65% to $422 million. billion to $8.6

Retail 10

Retail Merchandising Discount Price 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

And in a particularly interesting study, Freelancers Union , a US-based organization, reported that a quarter of the US workforce were project-based independents working for more than one organization. More recently, Deloitte estimated that 30 to 40 percent of corporate FTEs are supplied by external resources.

Agility 8

Agility Organization Resources Fixed Costs 8