Leading Blog

MAY 21, 2021

B USINESS is not a discipline, but an endeavor made up of disciplines such as accounting, communications, economics, finance, leadership, management, marketing, operations, psychology, sociology, and strategy. Lesson: The point of a visual presentation is to get the audience to listen.

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Short-term Morale Rate of Return Finance 351

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

There are a variety of methods you can use to calculate ROI — net present value , payback, breakeven — and internal rate of return , or IRR. What is internal rate of return? The IRR is the rate at which the project breaks even. Finance & Accounting Article. How is it calculated?

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Rate of Return IRR NPV Net Present Value 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

How did Sal Khan finance his venture? His backers believe that investing in Khan Academy represents one of the highest returns in improving education around the world (see this HBS case for more on how funders decided to get involved). First, Sal Khan could have continued in finance and made far more money than he does in a nonprofit.

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Bond Education Finance Video 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

There are, of course, individual firms that succeed in generating venture rates of return. But they are too small in size and too few in number to make up for the vast majority of funds that fail to generate attractive returns (or any returns) for investors. Last year I spoke at a conference to an audience of VCs.

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Venture Capitalist Asset Management Rate of Return Industry 15