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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 Sit on All that Cash? Firms Uncertain on Cost of Capital

Harvard Business Review

Many are deeply uncertain about which initiatives they should fund — and one root of this indecision is a general lack of confidence in the cost of capital projections they are using to make the call. Download this pdf for an executive summary, or login here for the full report.)

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How Passion Can Revolutionize Digital Technology, AND Change The.

Terry Starbucker

And change it did, because the new CEO had a vision that went beyond product, and costs, and overhead, and costs of capital. It was about passion. And about people who have it. Thirteen years later, the stock price is now above $240, and it has a market cap bigger than Microsoft. That company is Apple.

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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. Download McGrath’s Scoring Business Model Attractiveness (PDF, 50KB) ]. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point. My whole company depends on it.