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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business Review

And who’s in the best position to offer advice? Next time you're deciding about a big investment, NPV can help you make a more informed decision. “You’re not managing specific business decisions, you’re trying to understand and internalize how the models work” and the assumptions they make.

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business Review

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. One of the many articles circling back to this topic of late revisited the still-common use of NPV hurdles in investment decisions.)