Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2013

Like any small business, they need working capital to balance out the peaks and troughs of their business cycle. Sometimes they need bridging capital to pay for projects that are being grant-funded upon completion. Nor is this about developing another socially responsible investment (SRI) product for their clients.

Banking 8

Banking Finance Due Diligence Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

In this month's HBR, Professor Clayton Christensen and I have an article that describes how to develop core business strategy in the face of disruption. Best Buy needs to take stock of its unique advantages and compete for the customers that disruptive entrants are currently poorly positioned to win.

Price 8

Price Retail Business Model Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

To borrow a telecom industry metaphor, a deal with a customer is the “last mile” in connecting any strategy with business development efforts and marketplace results. This is ineffective deal management, and it eventually leads to loss of positioning with customers, and, over time, the nurturing of “commodity competencies.”

Strategy 8

Strategy Team Discount ROIC 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

With most high-potential ventures, however, founders must mobilize more resources than they control personally: the venture eventually will require production facilities, distribution channels, working capital, and so forth. Entrepreneurs face a Catch-22. On the one hand, it can be difficult to reduce risk without resources.

Definition 9

Definition Entrepreneur Tactics Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

But a study from 1999 found that long-run performance of both the former parent company and the divested unit is strongly positive, provided that the spin-off increases the company’s focus. A 2010 meta-analysis detailed many of the different issues that make divestiture so hard to evaluate consistently.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

In the past, economic development has prioritized big businesses. But these economic development strategies focused on big businesses, sometimes known as “elephant hunting,” may overstate the importance of large firms. The Main Street business owner needs a different kind of capital from the high-tech entrepreneur.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2018

Equity ratio, where low equity ratio values indicate difficulties in managing costs (and thereby high risk in such ventures because of the entrepreneur’s inability to balance costs with assets) and high equity ratio values indicate low levels of venture development and reinvestment. At the same time, these beliefs have no basis in fact.

Venture Capitalist 10

Venture Capitalist Debt to Equity Ratio Real Estate Entrepreneur 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

Should he plow cash into increasing the pay of the disadvantaged people he employs, or build his working capital? Entrepreneurs can use this tool to evaluate their current position, and can use this information to adjust their business model or approach to tradeoffs. Should she influence the quality of care of more patients?

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Business Model Long-term Goal 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

To help provide a better factual base for this debate, MGI, working with McKinsey colleagues from our Strategy & Corporate Finance practice as well as the team at FCLT Global, began last fall to devise a way to systemically measure short-termism and long-termism at the company level. rate for other companies.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8