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The Rise of FinTech in Supply Chains

Harvard Business Review

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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Shutting Down Stores Doesn’t Have to Be Bad for Business

Harvard Business Review

A major challenge for all retailers is managing the closures in a way that maximizes revenues and profits. Our studies of a wide range of retailers have found that companies often have the most difficulty managing death. Over time, retailers have identified and adopted many innovative ideas to manage these complex tasks.

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What’s Driving Superstar Companies, Industries, and Cities

Harvard Business Review

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.

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The Case for Investing More in People

Harvard Business Review

In research for our book, Time, Talent and Energy, my co-author Michael Mankins and I found that such investments do indeed pay off: The top-quartile companies in our study unlocked 40% more productive power in their workforce through better practices in time, talent and energy management. For knowledge workers, time is incredibly scarce.

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Should Companies Retain "Strategic" Cash?

Harvard Business Review

Strategic cash usually is invested in high quality short-term securities; this ensures safety and liquidity, but produces a meager return on investment—especially in a low interest rate environment—and does not achieve the company's cost of capital. How Should You Approach Strategic Cash?

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Divestment Alone Won’t Beat Climate Change

Harvard Business Review

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.

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Divestment Alone Won’t Beat Climate Change

Harvard Business Review

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.