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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. How can you boost your financial acumen? How do you decide which concepts are most important to understand to your work and your understanding of the business? Related Video.

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business Review

One of the many articles circling back to this topic of late revisited the still-common use of NPV hurdles in investment decisions.) His last piece for us, “The Art of Giving and Receiving Advice” (2015), must have drawn on his own experience, although it’s research-based and filled with case examples. Sound familiar?