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. Strategic cash also can be used to finance long-term reinvestment programs in the business—which is especially valuable to companies in capital-intensive industries (e.g.,

Company 13

Company Cost of Capital Finance Long-term 13

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.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain CEO Discount Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

When changes in the natural environment accelerate, so do the extinction rates of the Earth's creatures. Did it seem "creative" to Nokia shareholders when the company missed the smart phone wave despite having some of the early technology? real revenue and profit growth and earning their cost of capital has steadily declined.

Creativity 14

Creativity Long-term Kotter Cost of Capital 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Managed by Q, a cleaning and office services company in New York City, decided to pay employees higher wages than the prevailing market rate. In turn, the company is achieving lower levels of employee and customer churn, and correspondingly lower employee hiring and customer acquisition costs.

Human Capital 13

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 13

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. And it''s all because of a failure of political will in Europe to override the market''s built-in lack of flexibility and fix the imbalance between supply and demand.

Price 8

Price Energy Politics Marketing 8

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.

ROIC 8

ROIC McKinsey GDP Company 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8