Growth Strategies

Growth Strategies

Joint Ventures: Driving Innovation While Limiting Risk

CFOs are increasingly using joint ventures to grow their businesses while sharing risk and benefiting from optionality.

Sonal Bhatia and Neil S. Desai
December 9, 2020
M&A

Nestlé Buys Prepared Meal Delivery Service

Target Freshly delivers more than 1 million meals per week and is expected to end 2020 with sales of $430 million.
The Economy

Starbucks Changing Format of Business District Stores

CEO Kevin Johnson says store traffic is down in central business districts but up in the suburbs.
Capital Markets

Capital Allocation: How to Emerge From the Pandemic In a Stronger Position

CFOs have to balance unforeseen COVID-driven capital issues with the need for investment that drives long-term value creation.
Growth Strategies

Pushing Ahead With Global Expansions

Finance chiefs are sticking with their international growth plans despite the pandemic-induced economic downturn.
Growth Strategies

Finance During the Crisis: Five Lessons from CFOs

Boards and management teams, along with CFOs, now see the importance of an adaptable, agile finance function that operates in near-real time.
Strategy

Making the CFO the Chief Profitability Officer

"The most important issue facing most managers in this difficult economy is making more money from the existing business without costly new initiatives. "
M&A

Caesars Confirms $3.7B Offer For William Hill

Caesars said it plans to sell William Hill’s non-U.S. businesses, including 1,400 U.K. betting shops.
Growth Strategies

Middle Market CFOs Pursue Aggressive 2020 Agendas

Most midsize companies are moving forward with their growth plans, despite weighty issues finance chiefs face in their respective industries.
Growth Strategies

Simplified Cost Structuring Spurs ‘Efficient Growth’

Companies are well-served by playing in fewer industries, entering fewer geographical markets, and having simpler product portfolios than peer firms.
Applications

Online Lending Platform Refines the Science of Underwriting

Upstart's loan securitizations are performing far better than Kroll, the leading credit rating agency for marketplace lenders, had expected.
Growth Strategies

Disruptive Change Spells Opportunity for Top CFOs

In these disruptive times, finance chiefs should invest for scale, root out scope creep, and adopt a customer-centric mindset, says Gartner.
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