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Still Many Ways to Skin a Capital Cost

Harvard Business Review

For instance, if you had recently run a discounted cash flow, or DCF, valuation on the UK-based mobile phone giant Vodafone, you would have found that changing the discount rate from 12% to 11.6% — hardly a major change — would have increased the company's estimated value by 15%, or £13.4 Yeh, William S. Schulze, and Michael H.

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Lafley’s P&G Brand Cull and the 80/20 Rule

Harvard Business Review

Declaring he’d cull up to 100 brands — many of which he’d acquired and developed — P&G CEO A.G. Lafley launches a “game changer” profoundly different than what he championed in his eponymous 2008 bestseller. P&G is cutting its global brand portfolio by more than half.

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