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How Mature is Your Risk Management?

Harvard Business Review

For years, companies have been pouring money into people, processes, and technology that can help them manage risk. They clearly generate higher growth in revenue, EBITDA, and EBITDA/EV. Companies in the top 20% of risk maturity generated three times the level of EBITDA as those in the bottom 20%.

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

Strategy Driven

In addition, we believe that your starting point for strategy development is what you are already great at, rather than studying the industry and market for opportunities. Is it more important to consider capabilities when you develop a strategy now than it was, say, five years ago? SD : Why now? What do most companies do instead?

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Morning Advantage: A Supply Chain Solution to an Age-Old Problem

Harvard Business Review

Here in the Guardian , two business professors offer a practical solution to all three problems using developing nations’ supply chains. More goods get where they need to go and micro sellers remain in business, ready to resume normal operations when the flood is over and the NGOs fold up their tents. HAVE I GOT A DEAL FOR YOU.

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Shape Strategy With Simple Rules, Not Complex Frameworks

Harvard Business Review

Next, ALL's CEO assembled a cross-functional team to develop simple rules for prioritizing capital spending. And of course, complex models demand huge volumes of data, are susceptible to computational errors, and hinge on assumptions about unknowable variables such as disruptive technologies that, if wrong, can throw off the results.

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The INs and OUTs of Business Literacy

HR Digest

An all-comprehensive financial literacy program requires an understanding of the financial skills required to perform the job responsibilities, identifying the skills gap, developing content to fill these gaps, and an outcome assessment to ensure that each participant has learned and can apply the knowledge obtained.

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The Secrets to TripAdvisor's Impressive Scale

Harvard Business Review

and EBITDA margins are 47%. In the hyper-competitive world of technology and consumer Internet, it is hard to find a company that is pound for pound as profitable as TripAdvisor. The chart below shows their financial performance over the last few years, with forecasted 2012 revenue of $767M and EBITDA of $339M. Think about that.

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