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Expedia Layoffs To Affect 9% Of Workforce In a Bid To Refocus Resources

HR Digest

With a goal to drive efficiency forward this year, Expedia layoffs are moving ahead with a target of 9 percent job cuts in the upcoming weeks. Their full-year GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) saw a 127 percent growth compared to 2022, one of their highest growth numbers to date.

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A Blueprint for Digital Companies’ Financial Reporting

Harvard Business Review

On June 25, 2018, Facebook lost market capitalization of more than $100 billion in just two hours of trading after it announced its quarterly performance, despite exceeding analysts’ earnings forecasts. In a market like social media, a firm’s success can depend on the winner-take-all profits that come from market leadership.).

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How B2B Software Vendors Can Help Their Customers Benchmark

Harvard Business Review

Neustar’s MarketShare software makes it possible for customers to measure the effects of their marketing programs and compare them to other firms. At the same time that data mirrors and scoring have emerged in the corporate world, capital markets are becoming increasingly interested in the analysis of alternative data sets.

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The U.S. Corporate Tax Code Is Broken. How Should We Fix It?

Harvard Business Review

And, nothing could be more important to our economy than the efficient allocation of financial, real and human capital. And it is hard to rationalize a tax borne by labor implemented through corporations for either distributional or efficiency reasons. Cook squarely placed the blame on a U.S.

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GDP Is a Wildly Flawed Measure for the Digital Age

Harvard Business Review

As the market, including customers, employees, and investors, shifts the mix of what is done and what is consumed, this most important and commonly used economic indicator, along with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), tells a concerning story.

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