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Optimizing Portfolio Profit through DIPP-guided Resource Allocation

Epicflow

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! Is the cash flow available to increase expenditures in such a way? If not, don’t do it! Devaux, Stephen A.,

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market. .—while

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How Banks Can Compete Against an Army of Fintech Startups

Harvard Business

As JPMorgan Chase’s CEO, Jamie Dimon, warned in a June 2015 letter to the bank’s shareholders, “Silicon Valley is coming.” In these options, the critical question is whether the bank wants to keep its own underwriting criteria or use new algorithms developed by its digital partner.

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Earnings Cheating Season: Is Your Favorite Company Cooking the Books?

MishTalk

He developed a very useful MUC Score, Manipulated Underperforms Conservative. (An Developed by my former colleague James Montier, Andrew changed the name as companies got mighty shirty when they appeared on this list!) Is there a growing divergence between net income and operating cash-flow? If so (i.e.

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Why Buying a Company Can Be Better than Starting One

Harvard Business

For example, in 2015, Jennifer Braus bought Systems Design West, which serves hundreds of municipal firehouses in the Pacific Northwest by handling billing to insurance companies for their emergency ambulance transports.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business

By our measures, companies that were managed for the long term added nearly 12,000 more jobs on average than their peers from 2001 to 2015. It started with developing a proprietary Corporate Horizon Index. The returns to society and the overall economy were equally impressive. We calculate that U.S. rate for other companies.

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2016 ECS Value Creators Report: Building Endurance

BCG

Notable successes emerged in 2015, showing that value creation is possible and signaling important opportunities for many companies in the years ahead. In 2015, unlike in other years during the industry’s sluggish recovery from the Great Recession, M&A activity was not a route to value creation.

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