Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

When formulating a strategy, markets and segments are important categories to consider. 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. But a market never buys anything. Only customers buy.

Strategy 8

Strategy Team Discount ROIC 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

But what about the more strategic risk areas, such as those related to emerging market entry or acquisition growth strategies? 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%.

Risk Management 14

Risk Management Maturity EBITDA Management 14

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy. The conventional wisdom about strategy may be leading your company astray. In this unpredictable economy, traditional approaches to strategy are a luxury most companies cannot afford. SD : What is ‘capabilities-driven strategy?’. Let’s go after it.”

Resources 52

Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Successful companies shape their high-level strategies by relying not on complicated frameworks but on simple rules of thumb. It illustrates how simple rules can help companies shape strategy in an uncertain environment. Strategies often falter in execution because of insufficient coordination across the organization.

Strategy 8

Strategy Proposal Guidelines Net Present Value 8

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. After all, if you’re trying to sell a product or strategy, you need to be able to demonstrate that it is both practical and high margin. Here are some strategies to improve your financial intelligence.

Finance 8

Finance Skills EBITDA Net Present Value 8

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%. A lackadaisical price slash of, say, five-to-ten percent is a slow-boat-to-nowhere strategy. Competition Strategy' As a result, its stock dropped by 19% in one day.

Price 8

Price Marketing EBITDA Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

So how should you go about setting your strategy for divesting successfully? To start with, divestment strategy should be a mirror image of acquisition strategy, and that they both should be done primarily to strengthen a company's differentiating capabilities. Pfizer Inc. Pfizer Consumer Healthcare.

Due Diligence 15

Due Diligence EBITDA Health Care Gordon 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

For example, the pervasive use of EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortization) to reflect a company’s performance assumes that the company can operate without having to pay for these costs (I, T, and DA).

EPS 9

EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 9

CO2

APRIL 18, 2012

A great strategic plan should have focus and clarity around vision, mission, objectives, strategies and actions. In order to elevate engagement and participation a communication plan needs to provide great simplicity, clarity focus without ambiguity in your communication strategy. Explain any new terms or definition of terms.

Strategic Planning 145

Strategic Planning Planning Strategy Balanced Scorecard 145

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.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA How To Crisis Depreciation 8

HR Digest

AUGUST 1, 2019

The HR Digest: What’s the best strategy for helping managers to achieve financial literacy? Joe has also written toolkits for Harvard Business Press including the ROI Toolkit, Understanding EBITDA, and the Business Valuation Toolkit. The HR Digest: Who is responsible for teaching financial literacy, parents or schools?

Finance 63

Finance Metrics EBITDA Handbook 63

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Few growth strategies match the economics of category creation. Corporate development groups may have to accept that EBITDA multiple valuations may not be appropriate when buying a category creator. Another telltale sign of category creation is that it comes with a distinctive business model and profit model. of revenue growth.

B2C 13

B2C Strategy B2B Waterman 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

But by the 1990s it had run aground: It hadn’t properly developed systems to implement its growth strategy internally, and so that strategy broke down at dozens of points of execution on the front line—with customers, crew, staff on the shore and the company’s travel agent partners. Chaos ensued.

Company 10

Company IPO Price Loyalty 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

No stranger to ambiguity, Alex was flexible in formulating his strategy and sought feedback from the people around him. In a 2010 study with Cornell University, we showed that our assessment grades predict performance, as measured not only by revenue and EBITDA but also by boss ratings (often issued by the Board).

Agility 8

Agility Emotional Intelligence Learning-by-Doing EBITDA 8