The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 30, 2023

The common conception of a working life is one of a fairly linear career progression, with earnings rising alongside our seniority and experience. The evolution of wages A recent study from Bocconi University explores the various factors that may contribute to changes in income throughout our careers.

Career 115

Career Training Rate of Return Education 115

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

In financial engineering, PE investors provide strong equity incentives to the management teams of their portfolio companies. Rather, they rely on internal rates of return and multiples of invested capital. (We classify private equity as buyout or growth equity investments in mature companies.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discounted Cash Flow Company Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

There are, of course, individual firms that succeed in generating venture rates of return. But they are too small in size and too few in number to make up for the vast majority of funds that fail to generate attractive returns (or any returns) for investors. The larger the fund, the larger the fee stream.

Venture Capitalist 13

Venture Capitalist Asset Management Rate of Return Industry 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

It may seem that the employers of such low-wage workers — who focus mainly on keeping costs down in order to survive in a relentlessly competitive industry — would have no incentive to provide such training or resources for personal development. India’s biggest garment export firm.

Company 8

Company Training Bottom-up Rate of Return 8