Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. We exclude companies with a traditional CSR program that supports employee volunteering in the community – this does not by itself qualify as sustainability.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

Digital technology has been roiling markets and disrupting companies for more than two decades, but despite that lengthy history, incumbents are still struggling to enact and deliver on digital transformations. How the best companies get up to speed. We clustered companies in two ways. Insight Center.

Strategy 8

Strategy ROI Technology Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

The basic principles are: If you want to earn above the cost of capital (if you want to create value), you must get a higher return on your efforts than the average competitor. Every day entrepreneurs find new ways of getting higher prices than competitors or of reducing costs below those of competitors. Competition Strategy'

Strategy 8

Strategy Porter Price Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

My colleagues and I at Bain & Company have been tracking this for forty years, and we have never seen companies losing their leadership positions as quickly as they are today. Did it seem "creative" to Nokia shareholders when the company missed the smart phone wave despite having some of the early technology?

Creativity 14

Creativity Long-term Kotter Cost of Capital 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

Banks’ cost of capital is typically 50 basis points or less. These low-cost and reliable sources of funds are from taxpayer-insured deposits and the Federal Reserve’s discount window. This amounts to putting a toe in the water, while keeping current operations relatively separate and pristine. Eastern Bank).

Banking 9

Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

Europe''s $100 billion carbon market, an innovative force in the powerful carbon-reduction approach known as cap and trade, has ceased to function the way it''s supposed to. Share prices for European utilities and industrial companies have fallen too, threatening a wave of credit downgrades and increasing companies'' cost of capital.

Price 8

Price Energy Politics Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Some argue that profits are stagnant because of short-termism—that decades of focusing on current profits over long-run innovativeness has resulted, now, in companies that are hollowed out. One trend that has contributed to short-termism and lower innovativeness is the increased prevalence of outside CEOs.

Short-term 8

Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2018

Companies are seeking to be quicker on their feet and more innovative. How to make your company more nimble and responsive. ” Another is, “How will a company like that ever be managed?” Or consider online companies Alibaba and Tencent in China. Consider today’s trends in M&A.

Incubator 8

Incubator Insurance Cost of Capital Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

There is a fascinating relationship between executives and the stock prices of the companies they manage. Rappaport showed that, in setting a price, the market offers a clear signal that can inform operational and financial decisions. Disruptive Innovation Comes to Health Care. HBR's 90th Anniversary: Why Management Matters.

Price 8

Price Analysis Cost of Capital Disruptive Innovation 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Many people do not typically think of metrics and accounting as roadblocks to innovation, yet you call these out as potential problem areas. 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. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

But the solution to this innovation logjam has emerged: blockchain. Most firms cite opportunities to reduce friction and costs. After all, most financial intermediaries themselves rely on a dizzying, complex, and costly array of intermediaries to run their own operations. Distributed Database.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8