HR Digest

AUGUST 1, 2019

Joe works with managers and leaders at Fortune 500 companies such as NBCUniversal, General Electric, Berkshire Hathaway, Southwest Airlines, Boeing, United Technologies, and Electronic Arts. Joe has also written toolkits for Harvard Business Press including the ROI Toolkit, Understanding EBITDA, and the Business Valuation Toolkit.

Finance 63

Finance Metrics EBITDA Handbook 63

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

For years, companies have been pouring money into people, processes, and technology that can help them manage risk. They clearly generate higher growth in revenue, EBITDA, and EBITDA/EV. Companies in the top 20% of risk maturity generated three times the level of EBITDA as those in the bottom 20%.

Risk Management 13

Risk Management Maturity EBITDA Management 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

Third, firms understate their depreciation expense because they assume that their long-lived assets will retain their worth over the long term — even though technological change increasingly makes them obsolete. Such misplaced optimism potentially masks underinvestment in technology needed to keep up with the competition.

EPS 8

EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

Both the primary and secondary buyers added value in the same way — increasing EBITDA through operational improvements (an average of 14% in the first round, 13% the next) and growing revenue by increasing compound annual sales (both by 10%). Here’s Where They Make China’s Cheap Android Smartphones (Technology Review).

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain EBITDA NGO Taylorism 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

And this addresses the commercial value creation question – P&G’s mindset was to create operational efficiencies that would contribute to healthy EBITDA margins. What’s different now is the volume of the data, the availability of efficient sensor technologies, and the prospect of application in every walk of life.

Discounted Cash Flow 8

Discounted Cash Flow P&L NPV EBITDA 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

But in technology startups, particularly venture-backed technology startups, the current investment climate does not always support that vision. But analysts are judging EBITDA, P/E ratios, quarterly growth, and cashflows – which don’t always correlate with long-term value creation.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Mezzanine Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2012

In another example Innosight has researched, Xerox was forced to lay off nearly 40,000 of its 91,000 workers from 2000 to 2005 to return to profitability and make way for its transformation from a technology company into a services company. It's only this year, for the first time, that services revenue surpassed technology revenue.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA How To Crisis Depreciation 8