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Walmart Broadens ROI for Green Power

Harvard Business Review

Second, Bedore spoke about how Walmart thinks about its investments in green power: "There is an ROI calculation on all sustainability investments like on all projects, but.we In short, Walmart has tweaked its ROI requirements for green power initiatives to reflect more of the big picture. look at where the investment gets us.

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A Refresher on Internal Rate of Return

Harvard Business Review

Any time you propose a capital expenditure, you can be sure senior leaders will want to know what the return on investment (ROI) is. There are a variety of methods you can use to calculate ROI — net present value , payback, breakeven — and internal rate of return , or IRR. IRR doesn’t give you real dollars.