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Leadership Is About Alignment

Tanveer Naseer

Misalignment happens because when the difficult choice is presented, values and mission are thrown away for ease, comfort, prestige, or profits. The first step is to declare your values. The second step is to become the living example of those declared values. All of these examples show lapses in moral judgment.

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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business Review

We found that sustainable and deforestation-free practices created significant financial benefits for all players in the industry’s value chain. Specifically, our analysis found that the net benefits to ranchers ranged from $18 million to $34 million (12% to 23% of revenues) in net present value projected over 10 years.

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How Corporate Values Get Hijacked and Misused

Harvard Business Review

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.

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Don’t Let Your Company Get Trapped by Success

Harvard Business Review

This can be quantified by analyzing the extent to which the share prices of S&P 500 firms are driven by a firm’s present value of future growth options (PVGO) rather than cash flow from current operations. Our research shows that U.S.

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A Blueprint for Digital Companies’ Financial Reporting

Harvard Business Review

A firm, therefore, must provide separate, detailed section on the progress of each of its future-oriented project, how it relates to the firm’s current operation, the aggregate resources committed to that project, and the likely launch dates of the project. The current rules mandate no disclosures on future-oriented projects.

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How CMOs Can Get CFOs on Their Side

Harvard Business Review

CFOs are more interested in capital investment estimates, net present values, and a clear outline of the trade-offs of any investment. It’s the CMO’s job to make sure that metrics reflecting the health and value of the customer base –net present value, lifetime value, return on loyalty, cost per acquisition – get on the balance sheet.

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

Harvard Business Review

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. Rather, they rely on internal rates of return and multiples of invested capital.