Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 4, 2017
We know that great ideas that drive breakthroughs in productivity come from human beings with the time, talent and energy to innovate. One step in reversing this trend is to start treating hours like dollars, with a real opportunity cost. Both Kaizen events and Agile sprints are investments in innovation and human capital productivity.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 1, 2018
Our research and experience suggest that many executives underestimate the value of growth, specifically in today’s low-interest rate environment, and are thus missing out on a chance to make their businesses much more valuable than they are today. The cost of capital is at historic lows, averaging below 6% for most large U.S.
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Harvard Business Review
APRIL 16, 2012
This raises the question of whether retaining strategic cash makes economic sense and should be viewed as a legitimate corporate finance tool in today's environment. Arguments for Strategic Cash. Often citing the maxim that "cash is king", CFOs know that strategic cash can enhance shareholder value in various ways. It can: Save Taxes.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 27, 2015
Companies in the top one-fifth of profitability earn, in aggregate, about 70 times more economic profit (accounting profit less cost of capital) than those in the middle three-fifths combined, according to McKinsey’s database of 3,000 large, publicly listed, nonfinancial U.S. Consider what’s happening among corporations.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 27, 2012
When changes in the natural environment accelerate, so do the extinction rates of the Earth's creatures. real revenue and profit growth and earning their cost of capital has steadily declined. It happened to the dinosaurs and again to many species during the Ice Age. Yet almost every business aspires to do this.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 21, 2016
Fostering innovation. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation. Nike embedded sustainability into its innovation process and created the $1 billion-plus Flyknit line, which uses a specialized yarn system, requiring minimal labor and generating large profit margins.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 14, 2013
Europe''s $100 billion carbon market, an innovative force in the powerful carbon-reduction approach known as cap and trade, has ceased to function the way it''s supposed to. Share prices for European utilities and industrial companies have fallen too, threatening a wave of credit downgrades and increasing companies'' cost of capital.
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