Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

If you are operating a start-up, you may face problems with managing the cash flow of your business efficiently and may have to rely on working capital loans. Working capital loans are not utilized for long periods or the purchase of noncurrent assets due to their short repayment period.

Working Capital 11

Working Capital Credit Scoring Long-term Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

The McKinsey Global Institute, in conjunction with FCLT Global, recently released research stating that long-term-oriented companies perform better than those that focus on short-term results. As I said earlier, measuring a company’s short-term orientation is incredibly tricky. What would better measures be?

EPS 8

EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. and historic lows in new capital investment.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2013

Financial markets are not working for charities and social enterprises today. Most traditional financial intermediaries, like banks, are focused on short-term returns and deem unsecured lending to charities and social enterprises to be too risky. If financing is offered by a bank, the terms are often too onerous.

Banking 8

Banking Finance Due Diligence Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

The all-day breakfast had deep appeal and by upgrading and reorganizing the kitchens, McDonald’s could satisfy this long-standing customer request without slowing overall service. Meanwhile the merchant group developed Working Capital, an in-house experiment in small-business lending that PayPal had also started in 2013.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Decentralization Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

Multinational leadership teams should instead clarify their long-term objectives in the market – for example, whether they want to focus on maintaining margins or growing market share – and align execution accordingly.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

A study fielded by the Council on Foreign Relations, " Addressing the Special Needs of Girls ," underscores why missing school matters in a big, long-term way. 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.

Franchising 13

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

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 detailed roadmap should outline how it will become autonomous in terms of revenues and/or access to central services.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2018

We analyzed companies’ debt-to-equity ratio, equity ratio, risk buffer, property mortgage or the mortgage of the venture’s real estate ratio, the use of bank overdraft facilities/approved checking account ratio, and long-term liabilities or loans ratio.

Venture Capitalist 10

Venture Capitalist Debt to Equity Ratio Real Estate Entrepreneur 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

Americans have long believed in the importance of entrepreneurs to the health of our economy. The type of capital required and its source depends on the type of business, its stage of life, and its strategy for the future. A Main Street small business might require a term loan from a bank to buy a piece of equipment.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

Adam decided to launch a for-profit enterprise because non-profit solutions took too long to create jobs. "In Should he plow cash into increasing the pay of the disadvantaged people he employs, or build his working capital? In a business you have an amazing ability to be flexible," he said. Or keep margins healthy?

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Business Model Long-term Goal 8