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.,
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
SEPTEMBER 4, 2017
Perhaps the most transformational thing a company can do for its workforce is to invest in creating jobs and working environments that unleash intrinsic inspiration. This is why we believe that human capital, not financial capital, is often your scarcest resource.
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.
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
MAY 14, 2013
This has drastically reduced the incentives for them to invest in or deploy clean-energy technologies or to modernize their energy-infrastructure assets. By saying no, the parliament signaled that it had made a U-turn after decades of being the world''s strongest and most consistent political force on climate and the environment.
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.
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