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Is Your Business Biased Against Innovation?

Strategy Driven

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.

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

Harvard Business Review

But having a grasp of terms like EBITDA and net present value are important no matter where you sit on the org chart. ” 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.”

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What Private Equity Investors Think They Do for the Companies They Buy

Harvard Business Review

The private equity industry has grown markedly in the last 20 years and we know more than we used to about its effects on the economy. In operational engineering, PE firms develop industry and operating expertise that they bring to bear to add value to their portfolio companies.

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