Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

A well-run sprint takes talented, cross-functional team members out of their daily routines and focuses them in weekly increments on creating breakthroughs in products or processes. Both Kaizen events and Agile sprints are investments in innovation and human capital productivity.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

Private equity as we define it in this paper does not include venture capital investments.). In financial engineering, PE investors provide strong equity incentives to the management teams of their portfolio companies. Rather, they rely on internal rates of return and multiples of invested capital.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discounted Cash Flow Company Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

When the well-known hedge fund manager and short-seller Jeremiah Hughes first put Terranola in the spotlight, issuing ominous warnings about unsold products, a looming patent expiration, and flawed growth projections, the considered judgment of the executive team was to do nothing. “I Terranola had been moving forward with A.J.’s

Case Study 8

Case Study CFO Hedge PR 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

CMOs must demonstrate and track marketing’s impact by focusing on key performance indicators (KPIs) that are important for shareholder value such as strong cash flow, cost of capital, return on capital, and operating margin. Shareholders don’t care about fans or followers unless those numbers can be tied to profit.

CFO 8

CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2017

When Caesars Entertainment, a gaming company, reorganized operations in 2011, the senior team not only developed a database on the performance and the potential of the company’s top 2,000 managers but also analyzed the ability of the top 150 to take on new and different jobs. Invest human capital just like you invest financial capital.

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

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

You start by using analysts' reports and other sources to gauge the consensus expectations for value drivers — sales growth, operating profit margins, cost of capital and other factors that determine cash flows. Gaps between those sets of expectations supply management with a basis for decision making.

Price 8

Price Analysis Cost of Capital Disruptive Innovation 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. She is a popular speaker and consults to senior leadership teams. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point. To read Rita’s complete biography, click here.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50