Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

Recent high-profile data breaches like those at Target and Home Depot have exposed the private sensitive information of millions of employees and consumers. It is true that that breaches are expected and have become a regular cost of doing business, but there are deeper reasons for the market’s failure to respond to these incidents.

Price 8

Price Long-term Banking Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2011

A CEO's job is about resource allocation with a goal of earning a return in excess of the opportunity cost of capital. The challenge is figuring out how to allocate human and financial capital to its best and highest use for the long term. This requires difficult trade-offs. Communication.

Short-term 12

Short-term Long-term Price CEO 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

Less Volatility in Stock Price: The net effect of providing guidance is arguably a less volatile stock price, which can result in a lower beta and a lower cost of capital. FD) constraints. However, I also believe in increased disclosure concerning the earnings drivers.

CFO 11

CFO Metrics Price Depreciation 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2015

That’s how you’ll get the most accurate information. ” That information will inform your marketing efforts. Read refreshers on net present value , breakeven quantity , debt-to-equity ratio , and cost of capital. Avery points out that in a digital context, this is easy and inexpensive to do.

Price 8

Price Debt to Equity Ratio Marketing Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

As a result, family equity can come at a very low cost of capital, where businesses can meet the annual needs of their shareholders without having to worry about paying back the principal. ” They tend to have nimbler and flatter structures, where information flows quickly and easily in to the leaders and decisions come out.

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term Reputation Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

In a survey of 79 PE firms managing more than $750 billion in capital, we provide granular information on PE managers’ practices and how firms’ strategies relate to the characteristics of their founders. Rather, they rely on internal rates of return and multiples of invested capital.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discounted Cash Flow Company Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Moreover, the previous year’s survey showed that 63 percent of projects do not use analytics to inform marketing decisions. That means that almost two out of three CMOs are using qualitative measures to show impact, or aren’t measuring impact at all. Shareholders don’t care about fans or followers unless those numbers can be tied to profit.

CFO 8

CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

According to the 2015 EY Global Institutional Investor Survey, investors are increasingly using companies’ nonfinancial disclosures to inform their investment decisions. ” Investors are paying attention. In its survey of over 200 institutional investors, 59.1%

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

With the company’s share price sinking and its cost of capital rising, those deals might have to be put on hold. In subsequent weeks, as the stock sank to 30% below its peak, Terranola’s silence created an information vacuum into which all sorts of rumors and speculation rushed.

Case Study 8

Case Study CFO Hedge PR 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Rappaport showed that, in setting a price, the market offers a clear signal that can inform operational and financial decisions. Rappaport made no claims that the market is correct, only that it contains information managers can use. Next, compare the expectations of the market with those of management.

Price 8

Price Analysis Cost of Capital Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

The idea of the “joint hypothesis” that Eugene Fama framed in the late 1960s and early 1970s was that there had been all this research showing that markets reacted really quickly to information and that professional investors didn’t beat the market. The pot of gold can no longer be just at the end of the rainbow.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

No single party controls the data or the information. Each node stores and forwards information to all other nodes. Done right, ICOs can not only improve the efficiency of raising money, lowering the cost of capital for entrepreneurs and investors, but also democratize participation in global capital markets.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8