Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

When these three conditions aren’t present, values can get hijacked and misused. Without accountability, values become a weapon to punish. When a company has failed to genuinely embed its values throughout the organization, their default use is often as a way to shame and punish. Here’s how it happens: 1.

Bottom-up 10

Bottom-up Competitive Advantage Organization Workshop 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

For instance, despite the prominent role that discounted cash flow valuation methods play in academic finance courses, few PE investors use discounted cash flow or net present value techniques to evaluate investments. We gather career history data for the founders of all 76 private equity firms in our survey.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discounted Cash Flow Company Rate of Return 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Many conventional metrics we use to estimate value are based on faulty assumptions. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point. Your career depended on that business going forward, and the numbers that mattered had to do with the performance of that business, not with Sony as a whole.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50