Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

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. You may be wondering if this is the same as discount rate and the terms are sometimes used interchangeably, explains Knight. or 11% as the discount rate.

Cost of Capital 8

Cost of Capital Cost Finance Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

Interest rates of zero meant that central banks took to targeting asset prices – stocks and bonds – to boost spending. They don’t rationally-discount it, save it all, or give up their jobs in the hope of a handout. It would have a liability (government bonds) and an asset (equity holdings) of equal value.

GDP 8

GDP Bond Banking Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Nevertheless, the markets have discounted every announcement and have continued to operate in a state of quasi-panic, as they move at a different speed than the political activities. But the ECB's most powerful weapon — intervening in the bond market — is still locked away.

Crisis 15

Crisis Consensus Banking Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Last week, LDK Solar , a struggling Chinese manufacturer of solar wafers and panels, announced that it had missed $24 million in bond payments. This news followed the bankruptcy in March of Wuxi Suntech , the main operating subsidiary of the world''s largest maker of solar panels, after it defaulted on a $541 million bond payment.

Bond 8

Bond Price Industry Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

But when thinking about a brand’s relationship with consumers, the marketer in me needs something more concrete. This creates a strong bond; in my experience, no one measure correlates more to future purchase intent than “is a brand for me.” It’s a feeling. You just know. ” X is a brand I can trust.

Brand 8

Brand Benchmarking Class Bond 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

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

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

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

APRIL 2, 2014

So do not be discouraged to learn that we start with something called the stochastic discount factor , which Campbell describes as the central idea of modern asset-pricing theory. Many lay readers are familiar with John Burr Williams and the dividend discount model , or the discounted value of future cash flows.

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

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 12

Cost of Capital CAPM Cost Discounted Cash Flow 12

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. Think of strategy as a portfolio of options, not bonds. The traditional plan-then-do model treats the value of any strategy like a bond.

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

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

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. With Discovery-Driven Growth , Rita and Ian offer managers everywhere a time-tested blueprint for planning and executing a strategic growth agenda with confidence – in any market.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2013

Pizza Hut''s campaign unwittingly shut the door on thousands of customers who were either: 1) people within the target market that the ad alienated (ex: millennials who care about politics more than pizza); or 2) people excluded from the target market altogether (ex: non-Gen Yers). This keeps their hidden consumers invisible.

Market Segmentation 8

Market Segmentation Advertising Marketing Bond 8