Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2011

That is, allowing more failure should increase the overall rate of return. Of course, having more experiments, and failed experiments at that, will provide a necessary ingredient for that task. The difficulty with this argument is that it does not tell us what mechanism we should use to tolerate more failure.

Innovation 15

Innovation Rate of Return Diversity Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

In the process he discovered a fundamental problem in American K-12 education — that the traditional lock-step approach to mass public education of everyone taking the same courses at the same age in the same sequence, did not work for millions of kids. If not, the investors receive a lower return and risk losing their capital.

Bond 11

Bond Education Finance Video 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Impact investors over the past decade largely focused on proving that impact investments could achieve a “market rate” or above return profile. Making something wildly profitable will of course attract the attention of financial markets, and thus increase the chances it will scale effectively.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance IPO Real Estate Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2016

Starting in the early 1990s, Southwest stock delivered among the best rates of return in the history of American business. Of course, Southwest is a lone bright spot in an otherwise stagnant industry. There are clearly still people who deliberately choose not to fly. Thus, disruption still ought to be possible.

Airlines 10

Airlines Travel Industry Disruptive Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

These data were used to anticipate an economic rate of return, with the primary outcome metric being increases in farmer incomes, along with impact metrics such as a reduction in regional poverty rates. Once a contract is signed, a monitoring and evaluation process kicks in to allow for mid-course correction.

Long-term 8

Long-term Due Diligence Metrics Cost-Benefit Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

What ambitious, smart, enterprising young student, who aspires to be the next Bill Gates, would trade the kind of say Gates has in dictating the course of tens of billions of philanthropic dollars for the chance to work for a sacrificial wage? The monks may be smarter or more enlightened than the rest of us, but they aren't more selfless.

Merton 14

Merton Self-aware Rate of Return Class 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

r>g: Economist Thomas Piketty’s formula for spiraling wealth inequality, in which the rate of return on capital is higher than economic growth, has its critics. stock markets over Icahn’s career, it’s a simple factual assertion — the total return on the S&P 500 has substantially outstripped economic growth.

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The article shocked the sensibilities of many who worried about rising corporate power in the world, but for many executives struggling to chart courses through the chaos of newly globalized and deregulated markets, it offered an irresistible clarity: one need only focus on owners’ interests.

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Bureaucracy Short-term Agility 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

” Of course, it’s possible to arrive at a consistent way of measuring membership, if that is what matters. That’s a rate of return most investors would take in a heartbeat, and it bespeaks the commitment that comes with deepening engagement, not continuing “membership.”

Drucker 8

Drucker Objective Self-aware Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Many have developed programs designed to address it, while simultaneously generating significant returns for shareholders. Most of the business world recognizes the tremendous threat that climate change represents – over the course of the Trump presidency they need to make that perspective heard.

Policies 12

Policies Rate of Return Cooper Delegation 12