Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

He started very well, but as soon as his cash flow improved, financial burdens from family systems stifled his operations. As more people depended on him, he spent his working capital, and the business failed. But as soon as they began, the communal power of African extended family system weighed on them.

Books 14

Books Guidelines Banking Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

Your company is ready to make a big purchase — a fleet of cars, a piece of manufacturing equipment, a new computer system. Working capital requirements are typically built into an Excel model you’ll use to calculate ROI , so you don’t need to worry about them. Forecast the cash flows from the investment.

ROI 8

ROI Analysis Rate of Return Net Present Value 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

Sustaining changes are permanent changes to working practices, processes, or relationships that will cause the benefits to be delivered. They cannot normally be made until the new IT system (e.g., They often have to be made before the new digital system is introduced. In a major U.K.

Tools 8

Tools Supply Chain CRM Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Both associations managed their brands and ran the clearing and settlement systems for banks that issued cards or helped merchants accept cards. These card networks were allowed to charge their members just enough to cover cost and provide working capital. Not-for-profit platforms aren’t just important in their own right.

IPO 8

IPO Succession Technology Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

Our overburdened air-traffic-control system struggles to deal with increasingly crowded skies. “Expect delays” has become the recurring theme of our transportation system. Railway systems are near capacity. The highway systems in North America and Western Europe are also feeling the strain.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

It became easier and easier for small enterprises to gain customer reach and awareness (along with working capital). Start from your goal and work backward, articulating the steps you’ll need to take to get from the capabilities you have to the capabilities you need.

IAM 11

IAM Productivity Products Company 11

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

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Sales calls now focused on defining success with the customer, including specific outcomes such as time to deploy applications and system up-time guarantees. Financing needs are driven by the cash on hand and the working capital required to conduct and grow the business. Second, Alphatech had to decide how to communicate value.

Strategy 8

Strategy Team Discount Price 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Another problem is that badly designed contracts can leave open the possibility of companies gaming the system. 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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Incentives Education Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Disruption is a systemic problem: Clayton Christensen outlined in 1997 why it was so difficult for any individual business to defuse disruptive threats and embrace disruptive trends. Construction equipment and disk-drive manufacturing required heavy machinery, distribution facilities, and immense amounts of working capital.

Christensen 8

Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 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 8

Finance Franchising Business Model Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Instead of simply raising charity cash to import finished pads, Scharpf and her organization are inventing a whole new system of community-based education, business training, manufacture and distribution from locally-sourced banana fiber — that is, solving this serious problem and creating a sustainable regional business.

Franchising 13

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

banking system this morning. Supermarket chains, with working capital, IT capabilities, and outlet networks are potentially far safer and more reliable retail financial service providers than any bank. Britain's Independent Banking Commission came out with its final report and recommendations for reforming the U.K.

Banking 9

Banking Retail Competitive Advantage Report 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Due to huge capital requirements, these investments could exert considerable pressure on the working capital of the carrier company. For example, AT&T had to spend almost $18 billion in a single year to upgrade its wireless networks to handle the onslaught of new traffic.

Outsourcing 10

Outsourcing Wireless Telecommunications Core Competence 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

Roberta leads a business that seeks to improve the healthcare system in her Latin American country by providing better IT infrastructure and processes in order to reduce medical costs and improve the quality of patient care. As the business reaches more hospitals, revenues grow and the impact on the healthcare system increases.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Business Model Long-term Goal 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.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

Interviews conducted in 2000 by the Social Investment Task Force in the United Kingdom , revealed what most nonprofit leaders already know: Almost all social sector organizations are small and perennially underfunded, with barely three months' worth of working capital at their disposal. Compare that to the world of venture capital.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Bond Finance 12

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). -led billion of subscribed capital) or the Asian Development Bank ($162.8

Banking 8

Banking Development Policies Globalization 8