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. Under $1 billion revenue.

Cost of Capital 13

Cost of Capital CAPM Cost Discounted Cash Flow 13

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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

That phrase is increasingly shaping marketing decisions, and for good reason. What marketers should do. Ad dollars should go to developing useful and relevant apps that bond customers with the brand. "Mobile first." In 2012, $10 billion in sales were made through mobile channels. That''s expected to rise to $30 billion by 2016.

Advertising 8

Advertising Loyalty ROI Brand 8

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. So what happens now?

Short-term 11

Short-term Banking Long-term Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

” That phrase is increasingly shaping marketing decisions, and for good reason. What marketers should do. Ad dollars should go to developing useful and relevant apps that bond customers with the brand. “Mobile first.” In 2012, $10 billion in sales were made through mobile channels.

Advertising 8

Advertising Loyalty ROI Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

They’ve also characterized the San Francisco Bay area’s real estate market over a far longer period. There has been only one widely accepted and durable “model of asset price determination” for stock, bonds, and the like. It already has a higher market capitalization (although of course some think that’s a bubble ).

Price 8

Price Finance Definition Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Too many companies still follow a “Plan-then-Do” approach to strategy: The organization works tirelessly to create its best forecasts about the future market and competitive landscape. Any deviation from management’s forecast meant failure, regardless of how effectively the strategy was executed. Take Google.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

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

Whether or not that outlook begins to uptick not only depends upon how agile, adaptable, creative and resourceful entrepreneurs can be in planning for, or reacting to, market conditions, revenue and brand-building opportunities and other key concerns, but also how well they maintain a forward-thinking mindset. Crowdfunding.

Entrepreneur 50

Entrepreneur Loyalty Airlines Advertising 50