Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2018

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. The soaring U.S.

Cash Flow 130

Cash Flow Transportation Energy Balance Sheet 130

Tom Spencer

APRIL 17, 2014

This is not necessarily a problem if the decline was expected because a business is sustained from cashflow, not profit, and long term growth can be pursued through capital appreciation, which shows up on the balance sheet and not on the profit and loss statement. Shrinking market size. Limited operating capacity.

Sales 104

Sales Balance Sheet Examples Productivity 104

Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Firstly, by outlining the major items on a bank’s income statement, and then by discussing key ratios that are commonly used to measure profitability and to estimate the market value for banks. The biggest swing in operating expenses is likely to be variable compensation. Image 3: Illustrative example of a bank’s operating expenses 4.

Banking 88

Banking Balance Sheet Operations Financial 88

Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2017

It breeds indifference, which in turn breeds a yawning gap between underwriters, whose balance sheets absorb risk (the risk takers), and customers, whose enterprises create risks (the risk makers). Failure to act may consign many large players to the continuing trust deficit or, worse, irrelevance.

Insurance 133

Insurance Insurance Industry Policies 133

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Data contributes not only to brand equity, but to what constitutes product and service delivery in globally connected and hyper-competitive markets. To analyze EvD, determining the relative importance of data to an enterprise’s balance sheet, its ability to effectively compete, and its operational capabilities is a good place to start.

Data 70

Data Balance Sheet Enterprise Insurance 70

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The market panicked. That strengthened investment banks’ balance sheets by forcing them to scale back and to change the nature of the risks they take. This is most apparent in the credit markets, where revenues have shrunk by more than 40% from pre-crisis peaks. HBR Staff/CSA Plastock/Getty Images.

Banking 73

Banking Balance Sheet Financial Finance 73

MishTalk

DECEMBER 23, 2013

An exceptional bid by China’s central bank to curb soaring interest rates and relieve pressure on the financial system appeared to have come up short on Monday, as Chinese money market rates shrugged off the measure and continued to approach the crisis levels seen in June.

Balance Sheet 76

Balance Sheet Banking Benchmarking Financial 76

Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2017

In it, the authors, both sociologists, made a compelling argument that, to understand labor market outcomes like inequality, it wasn’t enough to look at the supply and demand for individuals’ skills. However, any discussion of firms and wage inequality must not be limited to discussion of market forces. Related Video.

Marketing 70

Marketing Balance Sheet System Training 70

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

As the electric power industry shifts from a model where individual local utilities have a monopoly on electricity provision in a region to a much more dynamic market, these prosumers will be able to make and sell a variety of obscure new products and services like frequency regulation. B operated the same way as A, with no special control.

Energy 70

Energy Balance Sheet Efficiency Software 70

MishTalk

DECEMBER 26, 2013

China''s Move to Market-Set Rates Let''s step back to December 8 and look at China Relaxes Grip on Interest Rates China is relaxing its grip on interest rates with the launch of a financial instrument that allows banks to trade deposits with each other at market-determined prices. China’s credit boom is still in full swing.

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Balance Sheet Marketing Banking Financial 65

MishTalk

MAY 19, 2014

Corporate balance sheets are in excellent shape, and there is still an ample cash cushion available to fund operations in the event of a growth setback. Might the market start pricing in an expectation of higher defaults even if defaults themselves do not soar? What about liquidity risks if the market turns on junk bonds?

Balance Sheet 63

Balance Sheet Operations Banking Policies 63

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

As a practical matter, for example, these changes in the global policy regime are forcing multinational corporations to scale back and sell parts of their international operations. Meanwhile the Institute of International Finance forecasted net capital flows for emerging markets in 2015 would be negative for the first time since 1988.

Balance Sheet 70

Balance Sheet Policies Banking Operations 70

MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Following on the "success" of the ECB''s LTRO (Long Term Refinance Operation) which did nothing to spur lending and everything to create the biggest sovereign bond bubble the world has ever seen, ECB president Mario Draghi announced a TLTRO or Targeted LTRO on September 4. The ECB''s intent is to spur lending.

Balance Sheet 65

Balance Sheet Banking Operations Policies 65

Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 26, 2019

Depending on the firm and specific role this case could be very strategic and operational like doing a market entry/growth-type case or very technical (i.e. Acquisitions occur when one company buys another company and folds it into its operations. building financial models like DCF, accretion/dilution, LBO, etc.).

Balance Sheet 60

Balance Sheet Case Interview Case Studies Case Study 60

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

There has been a truly dramatic retrenchment from foreign markets, making banking a rare case of an industry becoming less, rather than more, global. Stung by a series of risky foreign adventures that came back to bite them, most large global banks in Europe and the United States have retreated from foreign operations.

Banking 73

Banking Balance Sheet McKinsey Finance 73

MishTalk

JULY 11, 2014

The BIS slam, coupled with a recent stock market selloff, brought up debate on a " controlled collapse ". Over the past few years, non-financial corporations in a number of EMEs have borrowed heavily through their foreign affiliates in the capital markets, with the debt denominated mainly in foreign currency.

Balance Sheet 74

Balance Sheet Financial Banking Policies 74

Tom Spencer

JULY 7, 2023

I was assigned to a typical strategy engagement – should client X selling product Y increase sales in market Z? We repeated our request a week later, but they only provided a balance sheet from the previous year. His advice was specific to consulting, but applicable to other areas of business too.

Data 78

Data Consulting Balance Sheet Analysis 78

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Consider the example of a manufacturer of production equipment that collects sensor-based telemetry about its machines’ operations, the status of their parts, their performance, their resource consumption, and other data. This monitoring turns up an anomaly at a key customer that indicates a failure is imminent.

Company 71

Company Balance Sheet Enterprise Financial 71

Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

Historically, commercial banking and investment banking functions have been separated by law – these restrictions have since been repealed and larger banks tend to take on capital markets operations due to the complimentary nature of the businesses. In secondary markets, the sales & trading function operates as a market maker.

Banking 12

Banking Industry Balance Sheet Retail 12

MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Governing Council decided today to lower the interest rate on the main refinancing operations of the Eurosystem by 10 basis points to 0.05% and the rate on the marginal lending facility by 10 basis points to 0.30%. Judging from today''s reaction, the market may not have expected this big of an announcement.

Banking 74

Banking Balance Sheet Government Comparison 74

Harvard Business

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. Once one of the most powerful companies in the world, today the company has a market capitalization of less than $1 billion. Why did this happen?

Film 70

Film Balance Sheet Chemicals Engineering 70

Harvard Business

MAY 9, 2018

Mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures make up one of those variables, provided they average at least one deal per year in a program that cumulatively amounts to more than 30% of a company’s market capitalization over 10 years, with no single deal being more than 30% of market cap. Take marketing giant WPP.

Research 73

Research Balance Sheet Industry Sales 73

MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

This takes, in round numbers, all of the risk out of Lending Club''s balance sheet. Third, I certainly would prefer lending banks to be legitimately risk-free operations like lending Club. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction.

Banking 74

Banking Balance Sheet Financial Operations 74

MishTalk

JANUARY 8, 2014

A couple of participants thought that the marginal efficacy of the program was not declining, as evidenced by the substantial effects in financial markets in recent months of news about the likely path of purchases. Market expectations regarding the timing of liftoff of the federal funds rate seemed to be little changed over the period.

Policies 71

Policies Balance Sheet Financial Meeting 71

Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

The MBS market boomed due to a general consensus that property prices would always go up, mortgages were extremely unlikely to fail on a large scale, and the fact that credit rating agencies were willing to give AAA-ratings to the senior slices of CDOs even if the underlying pool of mortgages were all “subprime”.

Financial 60

Financial Banking Balance Sheet Cash Flow 60

Harvard Business

AUGUST 12, 2016

Most of these companies are private and don’t publish their balance sheets. The 300,000 companies in the association’s data set have more than doubled their profits from operations over the past 13 years, outpacing their corporate counterparts in the country. This success is no blip.

Industry 70

Industry Balance Sheet Enterprise Recruiting 70

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2017

So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. During Immelt’s tenure, GE’s stock market value fell by about half. Increase operating margins to 18% (by cutting expenses). In June 2017 the board “retired” Immelt and promoted John Flannery to CEO. Comstock is out.

Balance Sheet 73

Balance Sheet Financial Journal Company 73

Martinka Consulting

MARCH 30, 2020

I won’t be disingenuous by marketing services when most of us are in survival mode so I will make all readers of this newsletter an offer: If you have questions about what to do, how to handle things, need a sounding board, or simply someone to vent with call me for free telephone counsel. Whatever your business is, be doing marketing.

Small Business 40

Small Business Balance Sheet Cash Flow Banking 40

MishTalk

APRIL 12, 2015

In a recent speech, Mr. Hoenig noted that under American accounting rules, derivative holdings add $300 billion to the balance sheets of five top banks — JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. History favors Mr. That is, they operate with between 1.5 percent at the end of 2014.

Banking 28

Banking Balance Sheet Insurance Insurance 28

Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2017

A platform connects providers and users in a multisided market. A platform can be a business platform (a multisided market), a software platform (a cloud-based subscription service), or an engagement platform, (a user-generated community). For most companies intellectual property is something that sits on their balance sheet.

Intellectual Property 73

Intellectual Property Strategy& Strategy Strategy 73

MishTalk

JANUARY 26, 2015

When black markets in currencies develop, you can be 100% sure the official exchange rate is overinflated. bolivars to the dollar, the floating rate of exchange is 50 bolivars to the dollar, and the black market rate is 184 bolivars to the dollar. In Venezuela, the fixed rate of exchange is 6.3

Balance Sheet 28

Balance Sheet Airlines Marketing Operations 28

1 to 1

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

After years of immense growth, there are signs of economic headwinds across industries , with higher interest rates, stock market declines, pandemic challenges, labor shortages, global political instability, and more. Firms are becoming more risk-averse and deliberate in their spending plans through the end of the year.

Balance Sheet 26

Balance Sheet ROI Operations Media 26

MishTalk

DECEMBER 12, 2015

The bank has no plans to securitize its originations, and it won’t keep any servicing rights or build out a servicing operation, Ally spokeswoman Gina Proia said in an e-mail. Today, Ally has a pristine balance sheet and is focused on its strengths with its leading domestic automotive services and direct banking franchises.”

Mercer 28

Mercer Balance Sheet Automotive Banking 28

MishTalk

JUNE 9, 2015

Chart #2: Growing Payments While the current state of the city’s balance sheet is dismal, the real problem relates to what is expected to develop over the next decade. Many of the day-to-day aspects of city operations are extremely inefficient and expensive relative to other major metropolitan areas.

Balance Sheet 28

Balance Sheet Data Insurance Insurance 28

MishTalk

MARCH 17, 2014

Michael Pettis at China Financial Markets taught me much of what I know about global trade. Mish : Despite the obvious casino-like structure of global equity and bond markets, the poker game analogy is an extremely poor one. I am very appreciative. I tend to agree with most of his views.

Banking 66

Banking Real Estate Productivity Policies 66

MishTalk

JANUARY 10, 2015

When the bank reopened its shares plummeted as much as 14%, with the Spanish stock market down about 4%. The CBMV lifted the suspension on Friday, accompanied with a sharp drop in the stock market. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction.

Banking 28

Banking Balance Sheet Exercises Journal 28

MishTalk

JUNE 26, 2015

GoldMoney will continue to operate in Jersey as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Toronto parent. Rebuttal Highlights BullionVault's net assets are comprised of intercompany loans (yes, there is money reported as loans moving back and forth between the company and the CEO at above market interest rates).

Insurance 28

Insurance Insurance Balance Sheet Financial 28