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July's Leadership Carnival

Michael Lee Stallard

Jane Perdue presents A Lobby Display of True Leader Colors posted at Get Your Leadership BIG On! Steve Roesler presents Want to Influence? Mark Stelzner presents SHRM 2010: Observations & Conclusions posted at Inflexion Point. Grossman presents Valuing meaningful work always plays better to the bottom line.

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How Valuable Are Your Customers?

Harvard Business Review

At its core, CLV is the present value of all future streams of profits that an individual customer generates over the life of his or her business with the firm. You can then decide on where to focus your marketing, product development, customer acquisition, and retention efforts. x number of years).

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Beware of Short-term Management, Not the Short-term Investor

Harvard Business Review

Much has been made in recent years about the pernicious influence of short-term investors on corporate performance. The short-term investor does not reduce the firm's long-term competitiveness and value;short-term management does. Indirectly though, these short-term traders can destroy value.

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The Secrets to Building a Lucky Network

Harvard Business Review

I've written before about the Lucky Attitude that can lead to the type of circumstantial Luck that these entrepreneurs create and influence. And they develop great relationships, less through obsequies and architected targeting, but by naturally, authentically, and generously giving and caring about people. The Lucky are humble.

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

Campbell’s work has also made liberal use of the analytic tools developed by Hansen. You know, the future value of money, the present value of money — money today is worth more than in the future because you can invest it and get interest. You’re going to have to take a worst reasonable case.

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