Cost of Capital Development Management Productivity 
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 4, 2017
“Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything,” wrote Paul Krugman more than 20 years ago. Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. During much of this time, it has been shareholders, not workers, who have reaped the benefits of higher productivity.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 22, 2016
The use of FinTechs allows suppliers to access funding at the multinationals firm’s lower cost of capital.). Many FinTechs function as cloud-based software platforms and can enable “procure-to-pay” systems that incorporate both purchasing management and accounts payable functionality.
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Harvard Business Review
APRIL 16, 2015
” A quarter century later, not much seems to have changed: fewer than five out of the 100 CEOs on HBR’s 2014 list of best-performing CEOs even mention “return on capital” on their official biography — and none of those five lead companies listed in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) or in the EuroStoxx50.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 1, 2018
The cost of capital is at historic lows, averaging below 6% for most large U.S. Indeed, for most companies, the value of accelerating growth greatly exceeds the value of returning capital to shareholders. Indeed, for most companies, the value of accelerating growth greatly exceeds the value of returning capital to shareholders.
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.)
Harvard Business Review
JULY 25, 2017
While MROI is not usually public information, managers can use published financial statement data to estimate MROI for a competitor. Some companies establish a threshold for MROI that takes into account its risk tolerance and cost of capital, below which they are hesitant to make investments. Holding themselves accountable.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 10, 2017
For any business to succeed over the long term, it must earn a return that exceeds its cost of capital. That’s why good managers put so much focus on measuring and managing return on investment (ROI) as a basic operational practice. Here are four things leaders can do. Don’t Get Trapped in Your P&L.
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