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Is Your Business Biased Against Innovation?

Strategy Driven

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. Companies that will eventually be wrecked by others’ innovations are operating on autopilot. New product development is such a big piece of building new business, or so we are told.

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How Blockchain Is Changing Finance

Harvard Business Review

Blockchain was originally developed as the technology behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. Most firms cite opportunities to reduce friction and costs. After all, most financial intermediaries themselves rely on a dizzying, complex, and costly array of intermediaries to run their own operations.