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Life's Long Cruise? Planning for a Second "Me" Career

Harvard Business Review

Even modest continued earnings dramatically change the NPV calculation. One with concentrated blocks of time to devote to our own interests, rather than the constant need to juggle the competing demands that complicated pursuit of our first career. But all this requires planning or perhaps more accurately, imagining your second career.

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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business Review

.” Joe Knight, a partner and senior consultant at the Business Literacy Institute and the coauthor of Financial Intelligence , says that an absence of financial savvy is “career-limiting.” Next time you're deciding about a big investment, NPV can help you make a more informed decision. Related Video. Go it alone.

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Is Your Business Biased Against Innovation?

Strategy Driven

Net present value [NPV] is a case in point. 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. One problem is that NPV calculations tend to compare today with some future state.