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Rethinking Valuation So You Don't Miss a Good Deal

Harvard Business Review

Horizon 1 (H1) represents the current core operations of a company that produce the cash flow needed to sustain operations, to meet investor expectations, and to invest in future growth. The two together, NPV + OV, provide an inclusive but not inflated valuation. The 3 Horizons model breaks down strategy into three parts.

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Is Your Business Biased Against Innovation?

Strategy Driven

Net present value [NPV] is a case in point. The logic of NPV is to project cash flows into the future and then discount those flows back into today’s dollars at a given cost of capital. One problem is that NPV calculations tend to compare today with some future state. I’m thinking of HDFC Bank in India, Yahoo!