Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

It tends to be short-term, uses familiar (traditional) metrics and development systems like Stage Gate. Incremental innovations can be managed at the operating levels where the people know the customers/consumers best and decisions can be made in a more consensus-driven way with input and agreement between all stakeholder functions.

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Process Innovation Stage-Gate Net Present Value 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Business students have traditionally considered net present value, payback period, and hurdle rates as necessary tools to determine which project to select. Digital companies, however, consider scientists’ and software workers’ and product development teams’ time to be the company’s most valuable resource.

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Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. The short-term investor does not reduce the firm's long-term competitiveness and value;short-term management does. Moreover, I fail to see any argument why such short-term traders, by themselves, destroy value for the economy as a whole.

Short-term 15

Short-term Hostile Takeover Long-term Management 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

” PE firms typically take three types of value increasing actions — financial engineering, governance engineering, and operational engineering. These value-increasing actions are not necessarily mutually exclusive, but it is likely that certain firms emphasize some of the actions more than others. (We

CAPM 8

CAPM Discounted Cash Flow Company Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

But why compare apples (book value) to oranges (share price and dividends)? Buffett explains that book value is the best proxy for "intrinsic value," the net present value of all estimated future cash flows. Consider that since 1965, Berkshire's book value grew 434,057% and the S&P index grew only 5,430%.

Letter 15

Letter P&L Net Present Value Insurance 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Next, ALL's CEO assembled a cross-functional team to develop simple rules for prioritizing capital spending. The cross-functional team that created ALL's rules included the head of each department as well as the CEO. Within three years, ALL's Brazilian rail operations had increased revenues by 50% and tripled EBITDA.

Strategy 8

Strategy Proposal Guidelines Net Present Value 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

In these circumstances, strategies that generate faster growth create more value for most companies than those that improve profit margins. The Refresher: Net Present Value. In our experience, companies still focus more on cutting costs than on developing and executing new growth strategies. Related Video.

ROE 14

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 14