Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

There are a variety of methods you can use to calculate ROI — net present value , payback, breakeven — and internal rate of return , or IRR. What is internal rate of return? The IRR is the rate at which the project breaks even. How is it calculated? It’s not a straightforward calculation.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2009

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

There are a variety of ways to calculate a return on investment (ROI) — net present value , internal rate of return , breakeven — but the simplest is payback period. Knight provides an example. Say, for example, the cash flow for the project was actually $3,000/year in Year 1 and nothing thereafter.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

You may be wondering if this is the same as discount rate and the terms are sometimes used interchangeably, explains Knight. Then the management team takes that number and decides on the discount rate, or hurdle rate, that you have to exceed to justify an investment,” he says. or 11% as the discount rate.

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