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How Developing Countries Can Benefit From Green Technologies

The Horizons Tracker

” New markets According to UNCTAD, the green technology sector has the potential to create a market worth over $9.5 Green frontier technologies, such as electric vehicles, solar and wind energy, and green hydrogen, are projected to attain a market worth of $2.1

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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business Review

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time.

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How CMOs Can Get CFOs on Their Side

Harvard Business Review

Marketing is in the midst of an ROI revolution. The arrival of advanced analytics and plentiful data have allowed marketers to demonstrate return on investment with a degree of precision that’s never been possible before. To date, however, the reality of marketing analytics has fallen short of the promise.

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What Private Equity Investors Think They Do for the Companies They Buy

Harvard Business Review

We also know that private equity funds have outperformed public equity markets over the last three decades , even after the fees they charge are accounted for. In particular, we are interested in how many of their responses correlate with what academic finance knows and what it teaches.

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Still Many Ways to Skin a Capital Cost

Harvard Business Review

When executives evaluate a potential investment, whether it's to build a new plant, enter a new market, or acquire a company, they weigh its cost against the future cash flows they expect will spring from it. To make sure they're comparing apples to apples, they discount those future cash flows to arrive at their net present value.

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Which MBAs Make More: Consultants or Small-Business Owners?

Harvard Business Review

It might be tempting to turn to the highest starting salary paid, which typically goes to the graduate with the most experience in the most competitive market, who often earns crazy money their first year. million EBITDA company for 4x paying $6 million and using 50% debt financing. That average is actually hard to nail down, however.

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Debt and the Future of the U.S.

Harvard Business Review

During the financial crisis, the world came to the apparently shocking realization that debt financing entails risks. Consider, for example, that the estimated net present value of obligations under the Social Security system is approximately $8 trillion. The total value of explicit loan guarantees is well over $10 trillion.

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