Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

You’ve got an idea for a new product line, a way to revamp your inventory management system, or a piece of equipment that will make your work easier. There are two groups of people who may put up the capital needed to run a business: investors who purchase stock and debt holders who buy bonds or issues loans to the company.

Cost of Capital 8

Cost of Capital Cost Finance Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

If, for instance, colleagues say you are a great people manager, seek out metrics to support that idea. Another way to build rapport is to, “find a bond or a point of commonality,” says Clark. Another way to build rapport is to, “find a bond or a point of commonality,” says Clark. Discount small talk.

How To 8

How To Bond Discount Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2012

Without discounting what's been shared here," I began, "I want to take a moment to frame it in a wider context. One person after another talked about the pride they felt working at the company, the freedom to do their best work, and the tightness of the bonds between us. It seemed important to say something uplifting.

Energy 15

Energy Bond Discount Follow-up 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

beyond creating an easy money situation through reduction of discount rates, there is very little, if anything, that the reserve organization can do to bring about recovery.". were loan rates while in Europe it was government bond rates that were the target. In neither case did these policies work well.

Short-term 11

Short-term Banking Long-term Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

There has been only one widely accepted and durable “model of asset price determination” for stock, bonds, and the like. In the classic 1930 formulation of economist Irving Fisher : The value of any property, or rights to wealth, is its value as a source of income and is found by discounting that expected income.

Price 8

Price Finance Definition Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Ad dollars should go to developing useful and relevant apps that bond customers with the brand. Companies need to create compelling offers (such as discounts, free delivery, early access) to convince customers to download apps.

Advertising 8

Advertising Loyalty ROI Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Ad dollars should go to developing useful and relevant apps that bond customers with the brand. Companies need to create compelling offers (such as discounts, free delivery, early access) to convince customers to download apps.

Advertising 8

Advertising Loyalty ROI Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

But while the movement toward less square footage and mobile workforces will likely continue, we shouldn't discount the importance of the office. A good workplace bonds employees to one another in ways that virtual communication cannot replicate. The rise of the emotionally intelligent workplace.

Emotional Intelligence 8

Emotional Intelligence Real Estate Bond Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Others, most notably money managers and former Fama students Cliff Asness and John Liew in an epic Institutional Investor article , have done a lot recent to clarify how Fama’s ideas and Shiller’s can at least co-exist peacefully. This stochastic discount factor model is the modern economic update of those, correct?

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2013

The economist Robert Shiller has suggested issuing bonds that are linked to GDP, arguing that "the opportunity to participate in the uncertain economic growth of the issuer might well excite, rather than scare off, investors — just as it does in the stock market.". Each bond would have a maturity of, say, 15 or 20 years.

GDP 8

GDP Bond How To Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Following the company’s go-private transaction in October 2013 , Dell put in place new models for strategy development, resource allocation, and performance management. Any deviation from management’s forecast meant failure, regardless of how effectively the strategy was executed. Take Dell Technologies, for example.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

Fully 79 percent of companies, including 91 percent with annual revenues greater than $1 billion, use discounted cash flow techniques. There is less consistency, however, in how organizations estimate cash flows and determine the weighted average cost of capital at which those cash flows are discounted.

Cost of Capital 12

Cost of Capital CAPM Cost Discounted Cash Flow 12

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Besides tax-deferral, consider planning strategies that provide you with tax-free income in retirement, such as municipal bonds or Roth IRAs. In fact, now is an especially good time to consider tax diversification, especially in light of the 3.8%

Press Release 178

Press Release Discount Insurance PR 178

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

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. Yet for the small handful of companies that have managed to drive growth consistently – even through tough times – the payoff is great. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

If you’re a service company and a client is at the end of their agreement, offer a specific service at a discount or another deliverable with a high perceived value. Instead, focus on crowdfunding and non-traditional lenders such as Bond Street, Kabbage and Deal Struck. This principle can be applied in every business. Crowdfunding.

Entrepreneur 50

Entrepreneur Loyalty Airlines Advertising 50