Cost of Capital Leadership Management Present Value 
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 3, 2011
Creating Shareholder Value. Critics imply that managing for shareholder value is all about maximizing the short-term stock price. Companies that manage for shareholder value, the thinking goes, do whatever it takes to engineer an ever-higher market price. That is a profound misunderstanding.
Strategy Driven
SEPTEMBER 9, 2011
Many conventional metrics we use to estimate value are based on faulty assumptions. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point. 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. How do they do it?
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