Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. ” Improving risk management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

I was recently asked to give a talk about family businesses, and the conference organizer told me not to even mention the “three generation rule.” ” There is often a personal connection between the family and the communities in which it operates; reputations matter to families. ” He’s perfectly right.

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term Reputation Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Adding to the complexity is marketing’s increasing need to integrate with other functions in the organization to discover relevant insights from data, design products and offers, and then deliver them to the marketplace.

CFO 8

CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2017

For most organizations, only one out of eight employees is inspired. Financial capital is abundant but carefully managed; human capital is scarce but not carefully managed. You can actively measure the amount of difference-making talent that you have in your organization. There you have it.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Management Company ROCE 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. In this case its capital charge is $800 times 8%, or $64.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Investors punish companies with a short-term orientation by applying higher discount rates to them, which increases the cost of capital for those companies. In contrast, companies with a long-term orientation are rewarded with a lower cost of capital, which allows them to afford more innovation—a virtuous cycle.

Short-term 8

Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2018

Rockefeller built what was arguably the single most impressive business organization in history: Standard Oil. These new organizations are likely to operate quite differently from traditional corporations. James Brey/Getty Images. From 1870 to 1911, John D.

Incubator 8

Incubator Insurance Cost of Capital Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

But organizations have to deal with competing priorities all the time. The oil refinery illustrates the general point that the way you create an environment in which those operating it can make coherent decisions is to choose a variable to optimize and set minimums (and maximums if you wish) for all the other relevant variables.

Objective 8

Objective Cost of Capital Bottom-up Environment 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

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. Companies that will eventually be wrecked by others’ innovations are operating on autopilot. She works with both Global 1,000 icons and smaller, but fast-growing organizations.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Most firms cite opportunities to reduce friction and costs. After all, most financial intermediaries themselves rely on a dizzying, complex, and costly array of intermediaries to run their own operations. If the world of venture capital can change radically in one year, what else can we transform?

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8