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Rethinking Valuation So You Don't Miss a Good Deal

Harvard Business Review

To do this, we combine two separate frameworks: the first is the Three Horizon strategic model developed by McKinsey. The other is a process called Opportunity Engineering (OE) that instills a different way to look at value. This is where Opportunity Engineering comes into play.

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Old Buildings Are U.S. Cities’ Biggest Sustainability Challenge

Harvard Business Review

Today large commercial buildings address only two percent per year of the NPV-positive investments in efficiency that are available to them. The first key is to limit retrofit scope to a limited pool of pre-engineered core retrofit measures, measures that have been selected for their applicability to a large number of existing buildings.

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Stop Focusing on Profitability and Go for Growth

Harvard Business Review

Next time you're deciding about a big investment, NPV can help you make a more informed decision. In our experience, companies still focus more on cutting costs than on developing and executing new growth strategies. Related Video. The Refresher: Net Present Value. They create flux time for employees to devote to new projects. (3M,

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business Review

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. One of the many articles circling back to this topic of late revisited the still-common use of NPV hurdles in investment decisions.)