Harvard Business Review
JUNE 22, 2016
A new type of services company could transform global supply chains: Financial technology companies that act as intermediaries in facilitating transactions between a company and its suppliers. The use of FinTechs allows suppliers to access funding at the multinationals firm’s lower cost of capital.). Insight Center.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 31, 2017
Digital technology has been roiling markets and disrupting companies for more than two decades, but despite that lengthy history, incumbents are still struggling to enact and deliver on digital transformations. Sponsored by DXC Technology. One example is P&G’s Oral-B toothbrush with Bluetooth-enabled digital guidance.
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Harvard Business Review
APRIL 16, 2012
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., high technology or pharmaceutical) that are investing in projects with uncertain long-range payoffs. energy or telecom) or research-intensive industries (e.g.,
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 1, 2018
The cost of capital is at historic lows, averaging below 6% for most large U.S. Indeed, for most companies, the value of accelerating growth greatly exceeds the value of returning capital to shareholders. Indeed, for most companies, the value of accelerating growth greatly exceeds the value of returning capital to shareholders.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 5, 2017
Repaying such profits to shareholders through share repurchases is better than misinvesting that cash to diversify into unrelated businesses in which management has no expertise or overinvesting in projects that may not return cost of capital. Consider three examples. What would better measures be? Creative accounting measures.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 27, 2012
Would shareholders of Kodak — which had some of the earliest digital photography technology — agree that its destruction made evolutionary sense, or would they echo Harvard Professor John Kotter's remark that it was the result of "complacency"? real revenue and profit growth and earning their cost of capital has steadily declined.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 10, 2017
For any business to succeed over the long term, it must earn a return that exceeds its cost of capital. It is through continuously making incremental progress in lowering costs and increasing revenues that firms achieve competitive advantage in their industry. Here are four things leaders can do.
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