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The Challenge Of Achieving Sustained Growth - Take Two

Six Disciplines

As reported in the Harvard Business Review's Daily Stat , the consulting group Bain's updated global database of Sustained Value Creators found only 12% of companies worldwide managed to grow profits and revenues more than 5.5% over the 10 years ending in 2008 and earn back their cost of capital.

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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business Review

Our research has found that embedded sustainability drives financial performance through mediating factors such as innovation, operational efficiency, risk reduction, employee recruitment, engagement and retention, customer and supplier loyalty, competitive advantage, reduced cost of capital, and improved marketing and sales.

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Why Traditional M&A Is Becoming Less Important

Harvard Business Review

Our own consulting industry is the poster child for this phenomenon.) ” Another is, “How will a company like that ever be managed?” The most successful will develop clear joint goals and an entrepreneurially enabled management style that focuses more on outcomes than on control.

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Is Your Business Biased Against Innovation?

Strategy Driven

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. Yet for the small handful of companies that have managed to drive growth consistently – even through tough times – the payoff is great. How do they do it?

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How Blockchain Is Changing Finance

Harvard Business Review

Capgemini, a consultancy, estimates that consumers could save up to $16 billion in banking and insurance fees each year through blockchain-based applications. If the world of venture capital can change radically in one year, what else can we transform? Santander, a European bank, put the potential savings at $20 billion a year.