Harvard Business Review
JUNE 18, 2015
What have been less explored are the specific actions taken by private equity (PE) fund managers. In a survey of 79 PE firms managing more than $750 billion in capital, we provide granular information on PE managers’ practices and how firms’ strategies relate to the characteristics of their founders.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 24, 2014
A key target for Ceres’ work, and the main audience at the conference, is the group of institutional investors who manage tens of trillions of dollars in assets for long-term performance. ” The value of the companies owning and managing those assets, the logic goes, will plummet. degrees Fahrenheit (2 o C).
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Harvard Business Review
MARCH 10, 2011
Estimating the rate at which to discount the cash flows — the cost of equity capital — is an integral part of the exercise, and the choice of rate has a significant effect on estimates of a project's or a company's value. Tight convergence on a best practice may not be necessary, then, in this realm of management.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 27, 2014
Ideas with positive discounted cash flows get investment. Innovation Project management' One – possibly more promising — receives one more round of funding. Three companies end up taking 60% of all investment dollars. By contrast, for corporate innovators each idea needs to carry its own weight.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 8, 2018
However, many investors seem to have concluded that the most successful companies with tens of billions of dollars of valuation today could never have justified their valuation at the start of their operation based on discounted cash flow. Investors are paying more attention to ideas and options than to earnings.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 29, 2018
A second, more radical solution is to create budgets and authority for a service line or integrated practice unit (IPU) that manages a patient’s entire treatment for a high-volume medical condition. The IPU is an essential component of the value-based care model advocated by Harvard Business School’s Michael Porter.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 27, 2013
Sustaining innovation inhabits the world of incremental change, deliberate strategy , and most financial and management theory. Without theory to tell us how the rules are changing, many tools of management and finance seem to break down. New-market disruption is more complex.
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