Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

When executives evaluate a potential investment, whether it's to build a new plant, enter a new market, or acquire a company, they weigh its cost against the future cash flows they expect will spring from it. It's the opening paragraph of a Harvard Business Review article called "What's Your Real Cost of Capital?"

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CAPM Cost Discounted Cash Flow Cost of Capital 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

The marketing, underwriting, and servicing of SME loans have largely taken a backseat. In a recent survey from Javelin Research, 56% of SMEs indicated a desire for better digital banking tools. They estimate that online lenders will constitute nearly a fifth of the total SME lending market by then.

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Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

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. Rather, they rely on internal rates of return and multiples of invested capital. Our results on capital structure are more consistent with academic theory and teaching.

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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. In effect, incumbents are losing because they’re playing defense.

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Strategy ROI Technology Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

The rest of the companies, more than 2,400, simply do not have a strategy that effectively outperforms the market. Unfortunately, nearly eight in ten executives surveyed by McKinsey describe the strategic-planning processes at their companies as more geared to confirming existing hypothesis than to testing new ones. Execute decisively.

Strategy 8

Strategy McKinsey Strategic Planning Cost of Capital 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.

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CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2015

In fact, determining price is one of the toughest things a marketer has to do, in large part because it has such a big impact on the company’s bottom line. As she explains in her “ Marketing Analysis Toolkit: Pricing and Profitability Analysis ,” there are five zones of elasticity. What is price elasticity?

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Price Debt to Equity Ratio Marketing Metrics 8