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. Don’t delegate them away.

P&L 8

P&L Fixed Assets Charan Delegation 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. Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

And that’s what these guys [the 2013 Nobel winners] did. That is, potentially amazing technology if you can only figure out how it works. The capital asset pricing model was supposed to allow companies to calculate their cost of capital in a consistent way. Lars is famous for that.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8