Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

The private equity industry has grown markedly in the last 20 years and we know more than we used to about its effects on the economy. What have been less explored are the specific actions taken by private equity (PE) fund managers. What have been less explored are the specific actions taken by private equity (PE) fund managers.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discounted Cash Flow Company Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

An example was a discussion session of tired-looking European finance ministers, defensive and elusive about the speed of acting on the Euro crisis. Rather, their biggest barrier by far (about 85% of the time) relates to the internal complexity of their organizations and the management of their energy against that.

Competitive Advantage 15

Competitive Advantage Porter Goleman Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

One reason for the paltry performance is that while other business areas, like sales or finance, are considered to be core functions, innovation is often considered to be something that’s “nice to have” rather than essential. Yet every enterprise is essentially a square-peg business waiting for a round-hole world.

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

This lack of an analytical approach has traditionally formed a barrier between marketing and finance. Only when they began to really analyze their marketing costs did the company realize that it was spending three times the industry benchmark on coupons and 50 percent more on research. Ask for the CFO’s help.

CFO 8

CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

When the well-known hedge fund manager and short-seller Jeremiah Hughes first put Terranola in the spotlight, issuing ominous warnings about unsold products, a looming patent expiration, and flawed growth projections, the considered judgment of the executive team was to do nothing. “I They even sued one fund manager. Doom and Gloom.

Case Study 8

Case Study CFO Hedge PR 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. public market capitalization over this period. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. We calculate that U.S.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The goal of strategy is profitable growth, meaning economic value above the firm’s cost of capital. In my experience, most CEOs, CFOs, and other C-suite executives involved in strategy formulation know these finance basics. It may seem that sales has little impact on the fourth value-creation lever, the firm’s cost of capital.

Debt to Equity Ratio 10

Debt to Equity Ratio Cost of Capital Strategy Incentives 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Investors punish companies with a short-term orientation by applying higher discount rates to them, which increases the cost of capital for those companies. In contrast, companies with a long-term orientation are rewarded with a lower cost of capital, which allows them to afford more innovation—a virtuous cycle.

Short-term 8

Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

He got his PhD at Yale under Shiller’s supervision in 1984, but since then he has also done a lot of work expanding on Fama’s ideas about risk and return, some of it co-authored with Fama’s son-in-law and University of Chicago finance colleague, John Cochrane. And Lars has taken some of these ideas and applied them in finance.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

This all adds cost, with consumers ultimately bearing the burden. First, because it’s antiquated, a kludge of industrial technologies and paper-based processes dressed up in a digital wrapper. Most firms cite opportunities to reduce friction and costs. It begs the question: Why is our financial system so inefficient?

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8