Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Even Dell, famous for eschewing acquisitions in favor of organic growth, has thrown in the towel with its $5 billion acquisition of Perot Systems. To do this, we combine two separate frameworks: the first is the Three Horizon strategic model developed by McKinsey. The 3 Horizons model breaks down strategy into three parts.

NPV 13

NPV Net Present Value Price Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

Today large commercial buildings address only two percent per year of the NPV-positive investments in efficiency that are available to them. Innovation in Cities. This approach has been made possible by the advent of low-cost sensing technology and the ability to acquire data from building systems and energy-consuming equipment.

NPV 8

NPV Energy Efficiency Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

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. Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. He didn’t produce one signature idea, like Robert S.

Management 8

Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Many people do not typically think of metrics and accounting as roadblocks to innovation, yet you call these out as potential problem areas. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point. 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.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50