Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

Strategic cash also can be used to finance long-term reinvestment programs in the business—which is especially valuable to companies in capital-intensive industries (e.g., energy or telecom) or research-intensive industries (e.g., Allow for Greater Responsiveness to Future Events. How Should You Approach Strategic Cash?

Company 14

Company Cost of Capital Finance Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

However, higher accruals can reflect either innocuous aspects of certain business models, such as in the construction industry, where the time lag between earning income and realizing cash is long, or that growing firms retain higher working capital to meet greater current and future customer demand. Creative accounting measures.

EPS 8

EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

The cost of capital is at historic lows, averaging below 6% for most large U.S. Indeed, for most companies, the value of accelerating growth greatly exceeds the value of returning capital to shareholders. Indeed, for most companies, the value of accelerating growth greatly exceeds the value of returning capital to shareholders.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain CEO Discount Retail 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

At many companies the total cash investment in acquisitions, R&D, and fixed assets has not earned back its cost of capital after adjusting for the time lag in realizing incremental benefits. Today most if not all industries are impacted by digitization—mobile technology, big data, and the like.

P&L 8

P&L Fixed Assets Charan Delegation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

For any business to succeed over the long term, it must earn a return that exceeds its cost of capital. That’s why good managers put so much focus on measuring and managing return on investment (ROI) as a basic operational practice. That’s why successful innovators prepare for irrelevance long in advance.

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. ” Improving risk management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 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