Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

Traditionally, PE firms bring financial discipline and strategic clarity to firms they acquire. This expertise may include restructuring debt, increasing financial leverage, clarifying strategic priorities, increasing productivity, implementing rigorous operational systems, or heightening accountability for results.

LBO 8

LBO Restructuring Real Estate Leveraged Buy-out 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

Who is the world's most innovative company? Last year , number crunchers at Forbes found that Salesforce.com is the company with the highest "Innovation Premium" baked into its stock price. Perhaps a company's ability to innovate doesn't last long. There's no doubt: measuring "innovation" is a fuzzy business.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company Disaggregation Financial Leverage 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

Who is the world's most innovative company? Last year , number crunchers at Forbes found that Salesforce.com is the company with the highest "Innovation Premium" baked into its stock price. Perhaps a company's ability to innovate doesn't last long. There's no doubt: measuring "innovation" is a fuzzy business.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Disaggregation Financial Leverage 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2018

We also found that this greater firm value comes from better corporate innovations and successful diversified M&As. We also performed an event-study analysis to examine whether the market was more favorable to newly appointed CEOs when they had a more diverse network than their predecessors.

Diversity 10

Diversity CEO Sample Financial Leverage 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

And the average long-term ROE is more than 25%, reflecting improved efficiency combined with greater reliance on financial leverage at most companies. Others reward easy-to-measure improvements in existing processes over less-easily-quantified innovations. The result: a shortage of good growth ideas.

ROE 14

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 14