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.

EPS 8

EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In research for our book, Time, Talent and Energy, my co-author Michael Mankins and I found that such investments do indeed pay off: The top-quartile companies in our study unlocked 40% more productive power in their workforce through better practices in time, talent and energy management. For knowledge workers, time is incredibly scarce.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

To enhance financial flexibility, companies have been retaining unprecedented amounts of cash on their balance sheets, calling it "strategic" cash to distinguish it from the "operating" cash that is needed to run the business. Earn a Low Return on Investment. How Should You Approach Strategic Cash?

Company 14

Company Cost of Capital Finance Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. 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. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

The qualities often associated with family businesses that were a handicap in the previous century are turning out to be powerful sources of advantage, giving them the potential to be more adaptive to the increasingly intense competition that all businesses are facing. In the scale economy, capital was the lifeblood of success.

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term Reputation Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. Earnings quality: Accruals as a share of revenue. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. We calculate that U.S.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8