Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

Ever since the idea of strategy came to the business world in the early 1960s, the goal of differentiation has been paramount. It became easier and easier for small enterprises to gain customer reach and awareness (along with working capital). Our recommendations include: Be skeptical of benchmarking.

IAM 10

IAM Productivity Products Company 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Another problem we’ve seen is that some providers, seeking to fit in to a payment cycle, focus on short-term results, losing sight of the end goals. Finally, some companies have struggled to finance their activities without payment while they work on delivering the results, limiting their ability to innovate too. Making PbR Work.

Incentives 8

Incentives Health Care Education Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Sculley flipped these priorities to where the goal was to make money. Anyone familiar with Professor Christensen's work will quickly recognize the same causal mechanism at the heart of the Innovator's Dilemma: the pursuit of profit. The products, not the profits, were the motivation. Which is exactly what had happened to Apple.

Innovation 15

Innovation Christensen CFO Productivity 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

It's an example of an organization seeking to meet this challenge of scale by providing top-tier, in-kind expertise and working capital to promising social enterprises. Since it started its work in December 2010, SBT has invested in five social enterprises, which have since collectively increased their revenues by 77%.

Finance 8

Finance Franchising Business Model Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

One B2B firm client of ours has started to offer substantially longer payment terms to distributors to stimulate them to continue carrying inventory even as banks have cut working capital loans for the distributor. Their goal is to lower product prices to gain market share away from competitors who import into the country.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

As product is sold, some of the initial working capital that SHE puts up is paid back, with the entrepreneurs eventually owning their local franchises. Research is also demonstrating that basing performance purely on beating the competition or making money can actually decrease employees' intrinsic motivations to pursue a goal.

Franchising 13

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2018

Using a bank overdraft reflects the need for working capital either because the rest of the capital is tied up in inventory, property, or stock-in-trade or because the company has financial constraints, thus reflecting risk taking. 3) Women do not have resources to engage in high growth whereas men do.

Venture Capitalist 10

Venture Capitalist Debt to Equity Ratio Real Estate Entrepreneur 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

Endeavor Insight, the research arm of our organization Endeavor , has found that the way that entrepreneurs who lead social enterprises make tradeoffs between social and financial goals is a critical factor in determining the degree to which their companies will grow. Roberta's company has aligned its social and financial goals.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Business Model Long-term Goal 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The goal of strategy is profitable growth, meaning economic value above the firm’s cost of capital. Financing needs are in large part driven by the cash on hand and the working capital required to conduct and grow the business. But consider the basics.

Debt to Equity Ratio 10

Debt to Equity Ratio Cost of Capital Strategy Incentives 10