Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

Many are deeply uncertain about which initiatives they should fund — and one root of this indecision is a general lack of confidence in the cost of capital projections they are using to make the call. We find that 55 percent of respondents are convinced their cost of capital estimates are off by more than 50 basis points.

Cost of Capital 12

Cost of Capital CAPM Cost Discounted Cash Flow 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

What should the vast majority of executives who aren’t genetically endowed like Warren do to boost their odds of identifying good strategic bets, and then putting their money where their strategy is? Retool your strategy development process. The process of developing that strategy is critical. Strategic planning Strategy'

Strategy 8

Strategy McKinsey Strategic Planning Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

It's the opening paragraph of a Harvard Business Review article called "What's Your Real Cost of Capital?" The motivation behind it, as with many, many articles published over HBR's nearly 90-year history, was to take an effective practice developed in one corner of industry and spread it to managers everywhere. by James J.

CAPM 13

CAPM Cost Discounted Cash Flow Cost of Capital 13

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

The logic of NPV is to project cash flows into the future and then discount those flows back into today’s dollars at a given cost of capital. New product development is such a big piece of building new business, or so we are told. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50