HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2020

Whether you want to stay up-to-date on HR news, read in-depth HR articles, or find new ideas on strategy, innovation, and leadership, The HR Digest Magazine is here to suit your needs and help you stay more informed. billion capital raise. This included working capital for all regions and for the expansion of the Shanghai factory. “We

Crisis 98

Crisis Human Resources Working Capital Operations 98

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 4, 2016

They checked out the market, discussed the business idea with friends and family and feels they can come up with enough capital to set themselves up for success. Unfortunately, often the amount of working capital needed to fund the project is simply not enough to account for all the expenses that arise with a new business.

Due Diligence 50

Due Diligence Succession Real Estate Working Capital 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2023

To improve this working relationship, focus on aligning the teams, improving the quality of forecasts, map forecasts to the supply chain, and optimize for profitability rather than predictability. Following these steps can reduce a company’s working capital needs and increase earnings and cash flow.

Supply Chain 23

Supply Chain Crisis Marketing Working Capital 23

Women on Business

AUGUST 24, 2011

For Harper, it was deciding to franchise her business as a practical way to expand, when she could not get working capital, plus be assured of an ownership base that would strictly follow her dictates. Be distinctive and come up with solutions that meet your needs and your principles.

Franchising 226

Franchising Succession Core Competence Follow-up 226

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Spending too much on high-end frames can overload your inventory and deplete your working capital. In choosing frames to offer, you should consider your patient demographics and the location of your practice.

Directory 83

Directory Handbook Policies Tips 83

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

It has the strongest balance sheet, is the most profitable mining business in the world (measured by underlying earnings and cash generation), has substantially reduced costs (by some $6 billion), working capital ($3.5 A CEO, however, works through her or his team, in my case, it was 55,000 employees.

Gordon 150

Gordon Restructuring Leadership CEO 150

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 51

Resources Industry System Strategy 51

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

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 25, 2018

People lead busy lives and if you give them a chance to be able to attend family events and doctor’s appointments around their work, you are going to gain a lot of respect from people. Give your staff a reason to want to work for you and you’ll benefit from their loyalty. Offering incentives has to be a big part of your budget.

Incentives 50

Incentives Creativity Charisma Travel 50

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

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. This is a change from the differentiation strategies of the past. It became easier and easier for small enterprises to gain customer reach and awareness (along with working capital).

IAM 11

IAM Productivity Products Company 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

As more people depended on him, he spent his working capital, and the business failed. When artisans have no understanding of their cash flows, they fail prey to spending a big percentage of their working capital, without meaning to, on non-business issues that usually cripple their operations.

Books 14

Books Guidelines Banking Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

The trick is, growth strategies have to fit the company’s current context, especially its brand promise and its target market. Once they have a strategy to fit the context, they can sequence out the various steps to implement it. Investors were skeptical about the new strategy, and the stock went nowhere for two years.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Decentralization Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

As a result, my company Frontier Strategy Group has forecasted Russia’s economy to grow at an average of around 1% YOY during the next three years (lower than its 3% YOY growth between 2006 and 2014) — not the rapid bounce-back companies are hoping for. This will guide how they align sales, marketing, and product strategies.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Heffington, working with Steve Curnutte, a restructuring advisor, realized that as new orders poured in, it became difficult to establish the true cost of fulfilling them. And, because credit was readily available to cover the growing need for working capital, it was easy to ignore the sizable number of unprofitable and late paying customers.

Metrics 8

Metrics Working Capital Restructuring Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

It wasn’t easy to do, but it was a good strategy. For those companies with the skill to pull it off, it worked. Construction equipment and disk-drive manufacturing required heavy machinery, distribution facilities, and immense amounts of working capital. They are not asset-heavy. They are asset-light.

Christensen 8

Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

But like the terms "strategy" and "business model," the word "entrepreneurship" is elastic. For some, it refers to venture capital-backed startups and their kin; for others, to any small business. At a new venture's outset, its founders control only their own human, social, and financial capital.

Definition 10

Definition Entrepreneur Tactics Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2016

Better predictive ability from rich customer data has another important benefit: Amazon does not keep most of its products in inventory for very long, significantly reducing its working capital requirement. In fact, its cash conversion cycle is 14 days, much smaller than the nearly 30 days for most retailers.

Advertising 8

Advertising Retail Content Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

For instance, a 25% reduction in the time needed to deliver a product or service can double the productivity of labor and of working capital. Real benefits—growth and profits—come when these tactics are employed in a differentiating strategy that exploits congestion.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 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. Right now, Best Buy is attempting to protect its customer population and increase its sales by taking a low cost strategy against a company fundamentally advantaged in low cost sales.

Price 9

Price Retail Business Model Christensen 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The third category is of the most interest because it concerns factors that the divested business’s (new) management and new owners do control: the quality of the business strategy and operational decisions after divestment, as well as the capital made available for follow-on investments.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

They need new executive talent, infusions of capital, and systems capable of supporting an expanding organization. For-profit companies in the same situation can turn to a robust venture capital community that is focused on providing the management, financing and strategy that innovative companies need to scale up quickly.

Finance 9

Finance Franchising Business Model Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

But these economic development strategies focused on big businesses, sometimes known as “elephant hunting,” may overstate the importance of large firms. Half the people who work in this country either own or are employed by businesses with fewer than 500 employees. But these things are not enough.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The goal of strategy is profitable growth, meaning economic value above the firm’s cost of capital. In my experience, most CEOs, CFOs, and other C-suite executives involved in strategy formulation know these finance basics. (Or, Your real “strategy” is the collection of investments made via this ad hoc process.

Debt to Equity Ratio 10

Debt to Equity Ratio Cost of Capital Strategy Incentives 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

However, higher accruals can reflect either innocuous aspects of certain business models, such as in the construction industry, where the time lag between earning income and realizing cash is long, or that growing firms retain higher working capital to meet greater current and future customer demand.

EPS 8

EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

The expected benefits included improved working capital, an uplift in sales, reduced buying volumes, and a reduction in the backroom inventory at each store. Objectives for the investment were improved accuracy of inventory, reduction in inventory holdings, reduced cost of markdowns, less theft, and better merchandize planning.

Tools 8

Tools Supply Chain CRM Technology 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. for all other companies.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

This strategy has led to strong results. Should he plow cash into increasing the pay of the disadvantaged people he employs, or build his working capital? The hope is that by shifting their strategy, it will be easier for their enterprise to increase its social and financial impacts. Or keep margins healthy?

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Business Model Long-term Goal 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

The AIIB has working capital of $50 billion with potential to go as high as $100 billion – so it is, as yet, smaller than the U.S.-led billion of subscribed capital) or the Asian Development Bank ($162.8 billion of subscribed capital). and Japan are two of the most prominent players to decline membership.

Banking 8

Banking Development Policies Globalization 8

Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

That was the birth of our online strategy roundtables where we invited entrepreneurs to pitch and discuss their strategy in a reality show mode. Once the $1 million revenue milestone is crossed, entrepreneurs find it easier to find additional customers, manage working capital, and access funding, whether it is credit or equity.

Entrepreneur 54

Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Finance Incubator 54