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...global financial crisis changed how your manage your business? The biggest challenge of CEOs today is how can you maintain your long-term strategy and at the same face short-term obligations. Short-term, everybody is paying a lot of attention to cash. If you optimize cash, that doesn't mean you're optimizing profit. So you have to make choices about what is most important. You have to continue to prepare for the future. At the same time, if you want to be able to see the future, you need to make sure you are doing the right thing...
...pretty clear that without a government bridge loan - $12 billion in GM's case, $7 or $8 billion for Chrysler - there isn't going to be a 2010 for these companies, at least not without a pit stop in bankruptcy. Chrysler ended its third quarter with $6.1 billion in cash - but it's burning through $1 billion a month. Without federal money, Nardelli told the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, "we become dangerously close to minimum liquidity level by the end of the year." (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
Ford, relatively speaking, is loaded. The company still had $18.9 billion in cash at the end of the third quarter despite having burned through $7.7 billion in that period - half of which was tied to halting the production of F Series pickups because of slow sales. The company recently introduced a new version. Ford Credit, the company's finance arm, remains profitable because, unlike GM's 49%-owned bank, GMAC, it doesn't have a subprime mortgage business. On top of that, Ford can still draw on credit lines totaling $10.1 billion. "We are doing everything we can to create...
...Next step: cash in. The hit U.K. show is already seen in more than 100 countries, from Norway to New Zealand, South Africa to Saudi Arabia; its global audience stands somewhere near 500 million. Almost two dozen local editions of the Top Gear magazine - a best seller in Britain - appear on newsstands worldwide. And foreign versions of the program are next. In September, Australian broadcaster SBS aired the first of eight episodes of its own edition of Top Gear. A pilot of a U.S. version is already in the can, and a Russian series is set to air early next...
...well as those which involve bidding out contracts to build and operate new toll roads, such as the part of the Trans-Texas Corridor which calls for a new toll road between Dallas and San Antonio. These transactions usually provide the municipality or state with an upfront cash supply which could, and should, then be used for further infrastructure projects...