Great Leadership By Dan
OCTOBER 21, 2013
We just finished a “ Finance and Accounting for the Non-Financial Manager ” program this week for a large client. The audience was mostly engineers – program and project managers, the ones in charge of designing and making complex stuff. You’ll be able to hold your own in management and board meetings.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 23, 2015
Most finance managers in both large and small businesses encounter numerous proposals for capital investments and many of the people proposing these investments don’t have a clear picture of what the return will be. Do you think they’re going to do a net present value (NPV) analysis that shows they don’t need that computer?
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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
DECEMBER 2, 2010
The other is a process called Opportunity Engineering (OE) that instills a different way to look at value. Since the Three Horizons represent different levels of uncertainty, they need to be managed and valued differently. This is where Opportunity Engineering comes into play. Alexander B.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 8, 2018
Business students have traditionally considered net present value, payback period, and hurdle rates as necessary tools to determine which project to select. So, investors, and therefore managers, might be adjusting their approach to risk accordingly. Investors are paying more attention to ideas and options than to earnings.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 27, 2012
Managers in these organizations translate corporate objectives into a few straightforward guidelines that help employees make on-the-spot decisions and adapt to constantly shifting environments, while keeping the big picture in mind. Its new management team took over an organization that was bureaucratic, overstaffed, and bleeding cash.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 3, 2011
Creating Shareholder Value. Critics imply that managing for shareholder value is all about maximizing the short-term stock price. Companies that manage for shareholder value, the thinking goes, do whatever it takes to engineer an ever-higher market price. That is a profound misunderstanding. Communication.
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