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We Tracked Every Dollar 235 U.S. Households Spent for a Year, and Found Widespread Financial Vulnerability

Harvard Business

The lack of access to stable, predictable cash flows is the hard-to-see source of much of today’s economic insecurity. Financial Diaries (USFD), an unprecedented study to collect detailed cash flow data for U.S. From 2012 to 2014 we set up research sites in 10 communities across the country. households.

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Business Book Review: Boston Consulting Group On Strategy

Management Consulted

As good as the articles were when they were written, by the time this book came out in 2012 the consulting world had already adopted pretty much everything Henderson was talking about. The focus here is completely on cash flows and not projections. Natural Competition is evolutionary and Strategic Competition is revolutionary.

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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business

They had surged with the rise of digital camera only to peak in 2012, coming back down as smart phones became widely used. By 2016, the rise of smart phones seemed to have made the company less relevant: Its revenues were at almost the same level they had been a full decade earlier. The number of directors and officers would be reduced.

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How U.S. Hospitals and Health Systems Can Reverse Their Sliding Financial Performance

Harvard Business

Revenues from private insurance have not fully offset the reductions in Medicare payments stemming from the Affordable Care Act and federal budget sequestration initiated in 2012. All these problems contribute to diminished cash flows. The same mismatch has plagued provider-sponsored health-plan offerings. Physician employees.

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Do Lawyers Make Better CEOs Than MBAs?

Harvard Business

They were associated with nearly 2,400 publicly traded firms in the S&P 1500 from 1992 to 2012. We focused on nine common types of corporate litigation: antitrust, employment civil rights, contract, environmental, intellectual property, labor, personal injury, product liability, and securities. More Litigation, or Less?

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business

Disruptions in the supply chain may affect production processes that depend on unpriced natural capital assets such as biodiversity, groundwater, clean air, and climate. These unpriced natural capital costs are generally internalized until events like floods or droughts cause disruption to production processes or commodity price fluctuation.

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Optimizing Portfolio Profit through DIPP-guided Resource Allocation

Epicflow

And we are going to get that value from the product or service that is delivered at the project’s completion. It’s important to remember that, all else (risk, cash flow, community relations, ethical or legal constraints) being equal, NO project sponsor has ever said they want LESS value from a project for their investment!

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