Harvard Business Review
APRIL 26, 2017
It’s been more than 25 years since Bill Gates dismissed retail banks as “dinosaurs,” but the statement may be as true today as it was then. Banking for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has been astonishingly unaffected by the rise of the Internet.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 22, 2016
The use of FinTechs allows suppliers to access funding at the multinationals firm’s lower cost of capital.). They include new enterprises such as Orbian , Prime Revenue , C2FO , Taulia , and Ariba as well as new operations launched by traditional financial service firms such as Citi Group, HSBC, BNP Paribas, and Deutsche Bank.
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Harvard Business Review
APRIL 16, 2012
This raises the question of whether retaining strategic cash makes economic sense and should be viewed as a legitimate corporate finance tool in today's environment. Strategic cash also can be used to finance long-term reinvestment programs in the business—which is especially valuable to companies in capital-intensive industries (e.g.,
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 4, 2014
Divestment can theoretically address this market failure by limiting investment by the fossil fuel industry by depressing company valuations and thereby increasing the cost of capital. For many companies, most of the capital expenditures are financed from internal cash flows and bank financing.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 4, 2014
Divestment can theoretically address this market failure by limiting investment by the fossil fuel industry by depressing company valuations and thereby increasing the cost of capital. For many companies, most of the capital expenditures are financed from internal cash flows and bank financing.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 25, 2018
To analyze the superstar dynamics of firms, our metric was economic profit, a measure of a firm’s profit above and beyond opportunity cost. (To To do this, we take the firm’s returns, deduct the cost of capital, and multiply by the firm’s total invested capital.) and Chinese tech firms.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 9, 2015
Sure, you may know this already, but people who haven’t studied finance often find this statement confusing. If a company earns a $500,000 profit in a calendar year, shouldn’t it have $500,000 more in the bank on December 31 than it did on January 1 of that year? Finance & Accounting Tool. Excerpted from.
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