The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

A few years ago I wrote about innovation and entrepreneurship in Norway and Qatar. The author believes that while lower costs of capital would certainly help raise the entrepreneurship rate, it would be most beneficial to entrepreneurs with lower skills. of physicians operating as independent owners in 2019, versus 48.5%

Entrepreneur 83

Entrepreneur Long-term Cost of Capital Engineering 83

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

A recent McKinsey report found that while 84% of corporate executives think innovation is key to achieving growth objectives, only 6% are satisfied with the innovation performance of their firm. Even if executives try to prioritize it, innovation often gets crowded out by more “urgent” short-term pressures.

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

“Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything,” wrote Paul Krugman more than 20 years ago. Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. During much of this time, it has been shareholders, not workers, who have reaped the benefits of higher productivity.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

In retailing, most products, stores, business units, and even firms go through a life cycle of birth, midlife, and death. While legal restrictions set an upper limit on the length of a liquidation, managers may close stores early to save operating expenses. Deciding when to close a store.

Retail 8

Retail Cost of Capital Price Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% These values can be estimated credibly and cost-effectively, and we set about applying them to the Brazilian beef sector. of revenues) and $13 million to $62 million (0.01% to 0.7% of revenues).

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex. But the other indicators probably pick up legitimate differences in how companies in the sample operate, as opposed to whether they are myopic. What would better measures be?

EPS 8

EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

To analyze the superstar dynamics of firms, our metric was economic profit, a measure of a firm’s profit above and beyond opportunity cost. (To To do this, we take the firm’s returns, deduct the cost of capital, and multiply by the firm’s total invested capital.)

Industry 12

Industry Company GDP Bottom-up 12