Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Anyone who has had to make the argument for an investment knows the basic tool involved: a Net Present Value (NPV) calculation. The overall value of a foreign investment is equal to the NPV of the expected stream of profits for the life of the investment.

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NPV Short-term Discount Politics 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

Today large commercial buildings address only two percent per year of the NPV-positive investments in efficiency that are available to them. This is especially true in the commercial buildings market, specifically large commercial buildings, where well over 75 percent of existing buildings will still be in use in fifteen years’ time.

NPV 8

NPV Energy Efficiency Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

One of the many articles circling back to this topic of late revisited the still-common use of NPV hurdles in investment decisions.) ” (2008), it seems to me, is that it serves as an assessment tool that allows managers and executives to benchmark their organizations against other units and companies. Sound familiar?

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Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 8