N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2024

The firm’s EBITDA (Earnings before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization) margin expanded from 10% to an impressive 15% within two years of his appointment. The chosen COO became a transformative force within the organization, improving workforce productivity, streamlining operations, and drastically reducing expenses.

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COO Chief Operating Officer Efficiency Operations 313

The Center For Leadership Studies

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) still matters as does the P&L (profit and loss statement) and the deadline for 2021 projections (who can imagine?!) Deadlines and deliverables must be met. Customers expect uninterrupted excellence. is just around the corner.

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Emotional Intelligence Self-aware P&L Leadership 98

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Now the business environment is downright gloomy—the economy is in recession, the country just lost its hard-won Standard & Poor’s investment-grade status ; its currency, the real, has depreciated to 12-year lows ; inflation is nearing 10% ; and talk of presidential impeachment has spread virally across mainstream media.

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Strategy Depreciation EBITDA Price 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

For instance, McKinsey considered a smaller ratio of capital expenditure to depreciation to indicate short-term thinking, because it’s assumed that short-term companies will invest less, and less consistently, than other companies. Again, acknowledging reality might force hard, but timely, decisions on restructuring employee benefits.

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EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 8

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. The Brazilian company AmBev, already at 20% EBITDA in 2000, increased its margins to a whopping 36% in 2003. Anheuser's EBITDA in 2007, prior to its acquisition, was 23%.

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EBITDA Globalization Depreciation Open-book 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

But if you also throw in acronyms such as ABC ("activity-based costing"), EBITDA ("earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortization"), and VBM ("value-based management"), only the accountants in your audience will follow you — you'll lose everyone else. Small wonder, too.

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VBM EBITDA Document Activity Based Costing 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2012

EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) is the equivalent of corporate blood pressure. Barnes & Noble had weak blood pressure in 2009, but recently its EBITDA has shown signs of recovery, increasing more than 15% to $65 million in its most recent quarter. Look at profit margin trends.

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