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

JUNE 18, 2015

The private equity industry has grown markedly in the last 20 years and we know more than we used to about its effects on the economy. We also know that private equity funds have outperformed public equity markets over the last three decades , even after the fees they charge are accounted for.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discounted Cash Flow Company Rate of Return 8

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. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide. Sponsored by DXC Technology. How the best companies get up to speed.

Strategy 8

Strategy ROI Technology Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

The marketing, underwriting, and servicing of SME loans have largely taken a backseat. New digital entrants have spotted the market opportunity created by these dynamics, and the result is an explosion in online lending to SMEs from fintech startups. Banks’ cost of capital is typically 50 basis points or less.

Banking 11

Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 11

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

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

The basic principles are: If you want to earn above the cost of capital (if you want to create value), you must get a higher return on your efforts than the average competitor. Another example comes from the restaurant industry. Competition Strategy'

Strategy 8

Strategy Porter Price Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

But try telling that to the tens of thousands of workers laid off in just the first six months of this year by once-dominant companies in the electronics, computer, and mobile telecom industries. real revenue and profit growth and earning their cost of capital has steadily declined. Markets change; technology evolves.

Creativity 14

Creativity Long-term Kotter Cost of Capital 14

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

MARCH 31, 2015

While consumers are rightfully worried that their personal information may be compromised, shareholders and companies’ management have a wider set of concerns, including loss of intellectual property, operational disruption, decreased customer trust, tarnished brand, and loss of investor commitment.

Price 8

Price Long-term Banking Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Marketing is in the midst of an ROI revolution. The arrival of advanced analytics and plentiful data have allowed marketers to demonstrate return on investment with a degree of precision that’s never been possible before. To date, however, the reality of marketing analytics has fallen short of the promise.

CFO 8

CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. public market capitalization over this period.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This has been a remarkable year for the markets. Investors punish companies with a short-term orientation by applying higher discount rates to them, which increases the cost of capital for those companies. Thus the further out the fruits of R&D, the less likely operating divisions are to conduct it.

Short-term 8

Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2018

Mr. Rockefeller’s business strategy was to vertically integrate every aspect of the oil business (exploration, development, logistics, marketing) to assure an ongoing competitive advantage. Our own consulting industry is the poster child for this phenomenon.) The new face of deal making will take a variety of forms.

Incubator 8

Incubator Insurance Cost of Capital Competitive Advantage 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

The logic of NPV is to project cash flows into the future and then discount those flows back into today’s dollars at a given cost of capital. With Discovery-Driven Growth , Rita and Ian offer managers everywhere a time-tested blueprint for planning and executing a strategic growth agenda with confidence – in any market.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

This all adds cost, with consumers ultimately bearing the burden. First, because it’s antiquated, a kludge of industrial technologies and paper-based processes dressed up in a digital wrapper. Most firms cite opportunities to reduce friction and costs. Most firms cite opportunities to reduce friction and costs.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8