The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The author believes that while lower costs of capital would certainly help raise the entrepreneurship rate, it would be most beneficial to entrepreneurs with lower skills. of physicians operating as independent owners in 2019, versus 48.5% Positive or negative?

Entrepreneur 85

Entrepreneur Long-term Cost of Capital Engineering 85

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.

CEO 8

CEO ROIC Cost of Capital Merton 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

” PE firms typically take three types of value increasing actions — financial engineering, governance engineering, and operational engineering. Private equity as we define it in this paper does not include venture capital investments.). Do PE investors do what the academy says are “best practices?”

CAPM 8

CAPM Discounted Cash Flow Company Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Another pervasive reason is that senior executives are trained as operators, not innovators. And there’s a fundamental conflict between innovation and optimizing an existing operation. To close the gap, we need to treat innovation differently than we do normal operations. Here are four things leaders can do.

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Companies that manage for shareholder value, the thinking goes, do whatever it takes to engineer an ever-higher market price. A CEO's job is about resource allocation with a goal of earning a return in excess of the opportunity cost of capital. That is a profound misunderstanding. This requires difficult trade-offs.

Short-term 11

Short-term Long-term Price CEO 11