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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

Donations and grants don't allow them to innovate and grow. They have virtually no access to capital markets and little flexibility to experiment at various stages of growth. Compare that to the world of venture capital. Soon venture capital became a core part of many economies and those bold moves changed everything.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Bond Finance 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Hence, the customer-selection criteria of sales managers, and call patterns of sales reps, directly impact the first value-creation lever: which projects the firm invests in. Smartly reducing assets devoted to activities that earn less than their cost of capital requires good links with evolving market realities. (

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Debt to Equity Ratio Cost of Capital Strategy Incentives 14

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. The vendors for telecom network management were paid only for the capacity utilized by Bharti Airtel, not for the equipment. In the U.S.,

Outsourcing 13

Outsourcing Wireless Telecommunications Core Competence 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

The opportunity may entail: 1) pioneering a truly innovative product; 2) devising a new business model; 3) creating a better or cheaper version of an existing product; or 4) targeting an existing product to new sets of customers. For example, a new venture might employ a new business model for an innovative product.

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Definition Entrepreneur Business Model Tactics 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

She worked her way up to manage several locations of a quick-serve restaurant. As manager, she has health insurance through her employer, but when she had a health emergency, she nonetheless ended up with $8,000 in medical debt due to deductibles and coverage gaps. It doesn’t have to be that way.

Health Care 15

Health Care Insurance Video Transportation 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The article, " Surviving Disruption ," represents our first attempt in two decades to outline the other side of disruption — how to manage legacy businesses. To survive disruption, managers of legacy businesses need to change the game. For Best Buy, turning to fight their disruptor head on is asking for swift defeat.

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Price Retail Business Model Christensen 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2013

As a result, charities and social enterprises do not have the cushion of external financing to manage their various capital requirements. Like any small business, they need working capital to balance out the peaks and troughs of their business cycle. This model is an innovative way for donors to achieve greater impact.

Banking 10

Banking Finance Due Diligence Short-term 10

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. Managing Emotion Effectively Keeps Business On Track. In turn, SHE reinvests its profits in new geographies or other disruptive enterprises. Emotion Attracts Good People.

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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 11

Finance Franchising Business Model Analysis 11

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. Corporate culture.

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EPS Metrics Short-term Depreciation 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

And providers want the flexibility to deliver outcomes in the best, most innovative, and most efficient way possible without being micromanaged by the customer. Finally, some companies have struggled to finance their activities without payment while they work on delivering the results, limiting their ability to innovate too.

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Incentives Health Care Education Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

This allows you to better manage operating and capital expenses. It can also improve working capital. Digital payment innovations that tap into consumers certain about their latent demand are at the heart of successful digital business models. In early 2014, Starbucks said consumers loaded $1.4

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2011

That book is The Innovator's Dilemma by HBS Professor Clay Christensen. But what's most interesting to me isn't that The Innovator's Dilemma was on that list. 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.

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Innovation Christensen CFO Productivity 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Yet, despite the fact that all of our guests across our 18 sessions (and counting) have embraced these truths, the average result of such commitments to innovation seems to have been tenuous. But the corporate innovators we’ve talked to all know that. They’ve read Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma.

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Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

But whatever the investment, and whether I'm investing personally or professionally for the Disruptive Innovation Fund, my basic parameters are now clear. And because my husband and I were the providers of working capital, I had the luxury of being cavalier. Lesson 2: Establish rules of engagement. No, no, no , I cried.

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