Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2016

The use of FinTechs allows suppliers to access funding at the multinationals firm’s lower cost of capital.). They include new enterprises such as Orbian , Prime Revenue , C2FO , Taulia , and Ariba as well as new operations launched by traditional financial service firms such as Citi Group, HSBC, BNP Paribas, and Deutsche Bank.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Cost of Capital Transportation Finance 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

Unless your company’s return on capital exceeds its cost of capital, no amount of revenue growth can create value. For the many firms whose cost of capital and return on capital are roughly equal, in fact, the only path to value creation is to increase return on capital.

CEO 8

CEO ROIC Cost of Capital Merton 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

In particular, we are interested in how many of their responses correlate with what academic finance knows and what it teaches. ” PE firms typically take three types of value increasing actions — financial engineering, governance engineering, and operational engineering.

Discounted Cash Flow 8

Discounted Cash Flow CAPM Company Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

One reason for the paltry performance is that while other business areas, like sales or finance, are considered to be core functions, innovation is often considered to be something that’s “nice to have” rather than essential. Another pervasive reason is that senior executives are trained as operators, not innovators.

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

To analyze the superstar dynamics of firms, our metric was economic profit, a measure of a firm’s profit above and beyond opportunity cost. (To To do this, we take the firm’s returns, deduct the cost of capital, and multiply by the firm’s total invested capital.)

Industry 12

Industry Company GDP Bottom-up 12

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.

Banking 11

Banking Credit Scoring Stage-Gate Competitive Advantage 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

This lack of an analytical approach has traditionally formed a barrier between marketing and finance. Without a strong business case built on analytics, marketing too often is seen as a cost rather than an investment, despite marketing’s ability to drive above-market growth.

CFO 8

CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8